Diseases and disorders

Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health hazards, from both within and without.

The recognition of normal and abnormal patterns in the breast by mammography is a skill that must be acquired through training and experience in the same way the radiologist learns to recognize the normal or abnormal skull, gastrointestinal tract, chest, spine, and other anatomy.

For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

This book addresses the current concepts in tissue acquisition, diagnosis, and classification of mediastinal lesions in small biopsies including cytology.

Rabies continues to be a major public health problem, as it was in antiquity.

Head and neck reconstruction can be challenging due to the anatomical complexity of the area, its impact upon function, and the common need for adjuvant treatment postoperatively in cases of malignancy.

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders characterized by different defects in the development and function of the immune system.

This volume discusses the latest protocols used by scientists to understand ZIKV and how to mitigate its presence.

Nutritional management is an integral part of the management for virtually all gastrointestinal diseases.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of antibody technology.

In human solid tumors, nodal status is the most important prognostic indicator for patient outcome.

Neurobiology of Cytokines, Part A provides an overview of the effects of cytokines in the brain and in the endocrine system.

This is a review text on medical microbiology and immunology containing approximately 625 board-type review questions on left-hand pages with answers and explanations on facing right-hand pages.

Highly illustrated clinical review of diagnosis, staging and treatment of gastric cancer by expert multidisciplinary author team for wide readership.

Diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem affecting over 415 million people in the world.

Although infectious disease mortality is decreasing, the disease burden remains substantial as many new infections have been identified and some well-established infectious diseases have reemerged.

This exceptional reference book provides comprehensive insights into the conditions and requirements necessary to establish an optimal and supportive transfusion practice.

This clinically oriented book covers selected infections of the central nervous system which are of considerable current interest.

Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history.

This textbook offers a concise, yet comprehensive account of human nutrition, food and nutrition-related health problems, based on the curricula of top universities around the globe.

Patients with mental and substance use disorders have shown higher rates of morbidity and mortality from medical illnesses than the general population, and physicians are also increasingly aware of adverse effects of psychiatric medications on metabolic and cardiovascular health.

In this book is found the information essential to diagnosing, managing and treating the lung complications of connective tissue diseases.

For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.

A case-based book organized by top 10 common complaints of patients presenting to emergency departments.

IgG4-related disease is a new systemic disease that has only recently been identified and characterized.

Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment addresses how a societal shift in the timing of developmental tasks affects treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which are among the most highly prevalent and costly mental health problems in the United States.

This book highlights recent advances in natural and synthetic biomaterials-based hydrogel for drug delivery carriers and tissue engineering.

This volume provides a broad background of the basic sciences, clinical and therapeutic aspects, and management of uterine cervical cancer.

Cutting Edge Artificial Intelligence, Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics Approaches to Analyze Cancer, Volume 163 in the Advances in Cancer Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting topics on the Impact of thermal processing on food flavonoids, Bioinformatics and bioactive peptides from foods: does it work together?

The book covers the concepts, techniques and strategies of oncoplastic breast surgery and reconstruction for breast cancer patients.

Personalized Immunosuppression in Transplantation: Role of Biomarker Monitoring and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring provides coverage of the various approaches to monitoring immunosuppressants in transplant patients, including the most recently developed biomarker monitoring methods, pharmacogenomics approaches, and traditional therapeutic drug monitoring.

The research field of somatosensory processing in mammals has experienced revolutionary changes in recent years.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Approaching diabetes from a multidimensional perspective, Evan Soroka links the practices and philosophy of yoga with science and lived experience.

Precautions often apply to pregnancy in any workplace, but being a vet in practice presents additional specific risks.

This astute volume brings together the latest expert research on adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas (ACPs).

This book focuses on hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms that initially present as peripheral blood abnormalities, with either cytopenias or elevated peripheral blood counts, as well as non-neoplastic conditions that may raise concern for a hematologic malignancy.

This volume provides insight into the pivotal roles of stem cells, exosomes and other microvesicles in biofunction and molecular mechanisms and their therapeutic potential in translational nanomedicine.

This book explores various applications of deep learning to the diagnosis of cancer,while also outlining the future face of deep learning-assisted cancer diagnostics.

The series of volumes entitled Biological Responses in Cancer: Progress toward Potential Applications provides information on approaches through which the interaction between neoplastic and normal cells may be modified.

This book offers an extensive review of the most recent data on the pathophysiological role of structural and functional alterations in the microcirculation, particularly focusing on hypertension and diabetes.

This book explores the subject of artificial psychology and how the field must adapt human neuro-psychological testing techniques to provide adequate cognitive testing of advanced artificial intelligence systems.

Recent developments in our understanding of the complex anatomy of the cranial base and the biological behaviour of tumours in this area have significantly improved the outcome of patients with skull base tumours.

This book provides a comprehensive guide for nurses practicing in any area of endocrinology and at any level of expertise.

Research into and interest in the role of stromal cells in immunology has exploded over the past 15 years.

This work details contemporary clinical knowledge on the multidisciplinary management of pituitary and other sellar/parasellar tumors, with a focus on surgical techniques and a particular emphasis on complication avoidance and management.