Edited by ROBERT J. AMDUR ERNEST L. MAZZAFERRI 2005 The goal of this book is to provide Endocrinologists, Surgeons, Nuclear Medicine Physicians, and Radiation Oncologists with practical advice about managing patients with thyroid cancer. This book will not replace the excellent publications that focus on a highly specific topic or provide an exhaustive review of major subjects from the […]
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Edited by LINDA B. LESTER 2005 As the world population ages, health care costs are expected to escalate as a result of the increase in age-related, degenerative diseases. Regenerating the failing cells and organs associated with these diseases would preserve quality of life and help curtail the increase in health care costs.
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Edited by SHLOMO MELMED P. MICHAEL CONN 2005 Basic and Clinical Principles Endocrinology: Basic and Clinical Principles, Second Edition aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge base for the applied and clinical science of endocrinology. The challenge in its presentation was to produce a volume that was timely, provided integration of basic science with physiologic and clinical principles, and yet was limited […]
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Edited by PEDRO CORTES CARL ERIK MOGENSEN 2006 Renal abnormalities in diabetes were first recorded in the 19th century, where French and German clinicians described the renal hypertrophy and proteinuria in diabetes. A breakthrough in the understanding of the diabetic renal disease came with Kimmelstiel and Wilson’s description of glomerular lesions and diabetes in 1936.
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Edited by ARISTIDIS VEVES JOHN M. GIURINI FRANK W. LOGERFO 2006 It has been more than 4 years since the first edition of The Diabetic Foot was published. Over this period of time, it has become absolutely clear that diabetes is becoming a pandemic that challenges the health care resources of all societies, from the developing ones to […]
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Antonio Cano Sanchez Joaquim Calaf i Alsina José-Luis Dueñas-Díez (Editors) 2006 A New Brand of Multitarget Drugs The increasing awareness on the varied consequences of hypogonadism in distinct organs and systems has supported the notion of estrogens as systemic agents. This observation is congruent with the variety of tissues affected by estrogens when used in hormone therapy formulations […]
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Edited by George A. Bray Donna H. Ryan 2006 The field of obesity and the metabolic syndrome continues to advance on all fronts. This book is an effort to bring together a series of chapters that cover many of the newer facets of the problem. We have tried to capture the goal of this book in the subtitle […]
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Edited by CI-IRISTOS S. MANTZOROS 2006 Obesity and diabetes are reaching epidemic proportions in developed countries in the 21st century while, at the same time, they are also becoming disturbingly more prevalent in developing countries. In the United States alone, one-third of the population is obese and another third is overweight, more than 10 million people have been […]
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John Fernandes Jean-Marie Saudubray Georges van den Berghe John H. Walter (Editors) 2006 Diagnosis and Treatment Since the publication of the first edition sixteen years ago, Inborn Metabolic Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment has become a classic textbook, indispensable for those involved in the care of children and adults with inborn errors of metabolism, including pediatricians, biochemists, dieticians, neurologists, […]
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Edited by Kenneth W. Wright Peter H. Spiegel Lisa S. Thompson 2006 Pediatric ophthalmology is a broad field encompassing many diverse topics including embryology, chromosomal abnormalities, neurology, crainio-facial abnormalities, systemic diseases, retina disease, and strabismus. This variety makes pediatric ophthalmology interesting and intellectually stimulating, but at the time somewhat daunting.
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