Endocrinology

This compact yet complete guide to the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine and metabolic disorders combines the advantages of a short text book with those of an atlas, and provides thorough discussion of each disease supported by a wealth of images.

The Ovary, Third Edition, includes more than 60% new material that highlights the clinical aspects of human ovarian functions.

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: A Comprehensive Guide addresses how hydrocortisone works, what can go wrong, and how to correct it, also explaining why the timing of doses and measurement of cortisol from a dose is extremely important.

Due to the resultant health consequences and considerable increase in prevalence, obesity has become a major worldwide health problem.

This book was written at the invitation of Dr.

Obesity is a complex disease, and this brief resource offers a comprehensive review of the most recent evidence on the multitude of ways to help treat this condition.

Recent Results in Cancer Research: Bone Mineral Metabolism in Cancer presents the clinical approach to bone tissue metabolism, which depends on studying the plasma state, renal handling, kinetics, and balance of calcium and inorganic phosphate.

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I is a widely expressed growth factor with diverse effects on many tissues throughout development and in adult life.

Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis – der bewährte Ratgeber: Bewährt kompetent und leicht verständlich informiert das Autorenteam über Ursachen, Krankheitssymptome und Therapiemöglichkeiten der Schilddrüsenerkrankung Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis.

Utilizing the most current evidence, this practical book is the first publication of its kind to focus exclusively on the clinical and laboratory evaluation and therapy of thyroid nodules, including advances in evaluation and controversies in management.

Diabetes: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants bridges the trans-disciplinary divide among diabetologists, endocrinologists, and nutritionists in understanding and treating diabetes.

An anthology of more than 50 stories about the other side of treating diabeteswhat health care providers can learn from patients.

Nutrition therapy is an essential component of effective diabetes management.

In people with South Asian ancestry, the cardiovascular diseases of stroke and coronary heart disease (CVD) are epidemic, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) is pandemic.

Eureka: Endocrinology is an innovative book for medical students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery.

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press.

Comprised exclusively of clinical cases illustrating current strategies for obesity management across various types of conditions, this concise, practical casebook will provide obesity medicine specialists and all physicians who treat obesity with the best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat patients struggling with weight management.

CGM- und Insulinpumpenfibeloder: Bei Dir piept's jaDas ABC der kontinuierlichen Glukosemessung (CGM) und der Insulinpumpentherapie (CSII) …für Einsteiger: Was können Sie von der Insulinpumpentherapie und/oder der kontinuierlichen Glukosemessung (CGM) erwarten?

A solid knowledge base and good clinical skills don't necessarily guarantee examination success in the long case OSCE.

A clear explanation of the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes Written for a broad range of readers, including students, researchers, policymakers, health care providers, and diabetes patients and caregivers, this book explains the underlying biochemistry and physiology of diabetes mellitus.

Infertility is a widespread medical condition.

The European Workshops on Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology of the Testis have become by now a well-established tradition.

Improve your health and quality of life with expert advice and strategies to outsmart diabetes.

Epidemiology of Endocrine Tumors brings current data and clinical research into one source for a multidisciplinary audience.

The 3rd edition of this book provides a comprehensive, fully updated, overview of diabetic neuropathy.

The 3rd edition, the first new one in ten years, includes coverage of molecular levels of detail arising from the last decade's explosion of information at this level of organismic organization.

Genetic Steroid Disorders, Second Edition targets adult and pediatric endocrinologists, clinical geneticists, genetic counselors, reproductive endocrinologists, neonatologists, urologists, and psychoendocrinologists.

The syndrome X or metabolic syndrome may be defined as a constellation of several interrelated risk factors of metabolic origin which includes centrally distributed obesity, decreased high density lipoprotein cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood pressure and hyperglycemia.

This unique book is a comprehensive guide for healthcare providers who treat patients with complex medical conditions but lack the resources to address fertility and sexuality concerns and help patients navigate their fertility decision-making process.

Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 40 presents the proceedings of the 1983 Laurentian Hormone Conference held in Mont Tremblant, Canada.

This book provides a comprehensive review of current knowledge on the pathophysiology, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic strategies for salivary gland disorders.

This book provides a visual demonstration of normal and ectopic locations of parathyroid adenomas using different modalities in patients with PHPT and to describe parathyroid gland-related pathology.

Precision and accuracy are terms that are used in quantitative scientific fields to describe the reproducibility of a measurement or the capacity of a measurement to quantify the actual biological matter present.

Practical Pediatric Endocrinology in a Limited Resource Setting provides a guide for managing pediatric endocrine problems in a limited resource setting, together with an outline of the bases for these disorders.

Supported by the latest scientific data, this book serves as a guide to the clinical assessment of women's health during the second half of life (post-reproductive years), including approaches to the management of the most frequent age-related diseases and disorders and the most recent advances in treatment.

Iodine is an essential micronutrient and an integral component of the thyroid hormones, which are required for normal growth and development.

This book introduces cutting-edge studies on the spectrum of sex.

Diet is a major factor in health and disease.

This third of three related volumes is structured in 3 sections and 46 chapters covering every aspect of Hair Restoration Surgery (HRS), alternative and future treatments for AGA/FPHL, as well as hair loss concealment and hair care.

With the advent of the worldwide obesity epidemic, a concurrent rise has occurred in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome.

The mind-body connection is one of the hottest topics in medicine today, documented by enormous amounts of data regarding hormone effects on the brain and behavior.

Tuberculous Meningitis: Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy focuses on the most common and most lethal manifestation of tuberculosis of the central nervous system.

Completely revised and updated, and utilizing the most current evidence and practice guidelines for the treatment of osteoporosis, this comprehensive third edition discusses the basic aspects of bone metabolism, the pathophysiology of osteoporosis, current diagnostic techniques and medical treatment strategies.

This instant gold standard title is a major contribution to the field of clinical medical ethics and will be used widely for reference and teaching purposes for years to come.

Ovulation induction and controlled ovarian stimulation lie at the very heart of treatment for infertility, but have been subject to a bewildering variety of variations and improvements over recent years.

Pancreatic islets make up the endocrine pancreas and they contain the only source of insulin in the body, beta cells.