Aage R. Møller • Berthold Langguth Dirk De Ridder • Tobias Kleinjung Editors 2011 Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) has many forms, and the severity of tinnitus ranges widely from being a slight nuisance to affecting a person’s daily life. How loud the tinnitus is perceived does not directly relate to how much it distresses the patient.
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Matthias W. Wichmann • David C. Borgstrom Nadine R. Caron • Guy Maddern (Editors) 2011 Challenges and Solutions for the Rural Surgeon We are very pleased to present our contribution to the developing field of rural surgery. Rural surgery requires the surgeon to always be prepared for a procedure or an intervention that he or she might […]
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Niranjan Bhattacharya • Phillip Stubblefield (Editors) 2011 In ancient mythologies, be they from Greece, India, or China, there are stories of kings and emperors seeking the “fountain of youth” or “pearls” that would rejuvenate them. The so-called Philosopher’s Stone that medieval alchemists searched for fruitlessly was supposed to not only turn any substance into gold, but also to […]
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Steven L. Cohn (Editor) 2011 Preoperative risk assessment and perioperative management are important aspects of clinical practice in internal medicine. Whereas surgeons and anesthesiologists spend most of their time caring for patients in the perioperative period, many primary-care physicians and hospitalists may feel inadequately trained or uncomfortable in this setting.
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James C. Yao ● Paulo M. Hoff ● Ana O. Hoff Editors 2011 Neuroendocrine tumors arise from cells dispersed throughout the body. Historically, they have been thought to be a group of very rare and indolent diseases capable of causing a variety of esoteric hormonal syndromes.
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Robert S. Bonser • Domenico Pagano Axel Haverich (Editors) 2011 This series is directed towards surgeons, physicians, and healthcare workers involved in the care of patients requiring cardiac, cardiothoracic, and cardiovascular surgery. The scientific developments in this field continue to be prodigious and are published in an ever-increasing journal base.
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Russell D. Cohen Editor 2011 Diagnosis and Therapeutics One decade has passed since I first set “pen to paper” to launch the first edition of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics, and yet, it seems that an entire lifetime of progress has been made in the world of “IBD” since that time.
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Robert E. Shaddy (Editor) 2011 From Fetus to Adult Survival outcomes for patients with congenital heart disease have greatly improved over the last two decades. Because of better and longer survival in these patients who often have abnormal ventricular morphology, the incidence of heart failure in this patient population has also increased.
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Charles D. Blanke • Claus Rödel Mark S. Talamonti (Editors) 2011 Gastrointestinal oncology practitioners aim to establish effective prevention and treatment strategies for patients with malignancies involving the GI tract, ultimately leading to a reduction in morbidity and mortality from GI cancers.
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STEFANO GUANDALINI, HALEH VAZIRI 2011 DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES When we were asked by the Springer Company to consider editing a new book regarding advances on diarrheal diseases, we immediately thought that this was an exciting idea.
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