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This book comprehensively reviews the use of echocardiography in the rapidly evolving field of critical care cardiology. Increasingly, cardiac care units (CCU) are focusing on the management of patients with multisystem diseases, advanced hemodynamics compromise, complex ventricular arrhythmias, and established or incipient multi-organ failure. This book covers ultrasound applications in such topics as hemodynamic assessment and the assessment of patients with intracardiac devices. Syndrome-based echocardiography in the CCU is also covered with an emphasis on using echocardiography in patients with acute dyspnea, acute chest pain and neurologic syndromes. The use of contrast echocardiography in the CCU is also covered.
Reviews
This practical guide presents a concise approach to exploring endocrine
pathophysiology through the physical exam, emphasizing common clinical
signs in endocrinology that can be elicited through inspection, palpation,
percussion or auscultation. The established and proposed mechanisms
underlying these physical signs are highlighted, allowing students,
residents and trainees to better appreciate endocrine pathophysiology at
the bedside. The text is organized sensibly to facilitate quick and
efficient review by medical trainees. Major diseases in endocrinology are
grouped by organ systems – pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, and so on. Specific
physical examination findings in each primary endocrine disease are
reviewed and grouped under the categories of clinical features and
pathophysiology, followed by related clinical and pathophysiology pearls. A
brief description of the clinical finding is followed by a summary of the
pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying the stated clinical finding.
Relevant normal physiology and pathophysiology are reviewed where
applicable, to facilitate learning. There are numerous texts on the
pathophysiologic basis of diagnostic and laboratory findings in
endocrinology. There is, however, no dedicated text to address questions
that might be asked by trainees. Endocrine Pathophysiology satisfies this
need in the literature. –This text refers to the paperback edition. About the Author Andrea Manni, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, College of Medicine, The
Pennsylvania State University, Hershey PA, USAAkuffo Quarde, MD, PgD
(Clinical Trials), Endocrinologist, Sanford Health Clinic, Bemidji, MN, USA
–This text refers to the paperback edition.
