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Manual of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Publication Year:
2018
Edition:
5th
Author:
Lavin, Norman
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
ISBN:
978-1-49-632264-7
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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!

Ideal for all health care professionals who evaluate, diagnose, treat, or refer patients with endocrine disease or disorders.

This thoroughly updated fifth edition brings together nearly 150 global authorities who share their knowledge and expertise on endocrine disorders in children, adolescents, and adults.

Using a concise outline format, it presents clinical information and protocols needed in everyday practice, with an emphasis on diagnosis and treatment. Succinct chapters and an abundance of tables and diagrams make complex information easy to find and understand.

Key Features:

  • Includes coverage of fundamental understandings and treatment modalities as well as recent therapies, new methods of treatment, new understandings of endocrine physiology, and new surgical approaches to disease states
  • Covers evaluation, pathophysiology, management, and treatment at every age of life, along with short- and long-term goals of reversibility and prevention
  • New chapters include transgender medicine, flushing and sweating, nasal administration of hormones, the growth plate, as well as traumatic brain injury and hypopituitarism
  • New topics include galactorrhea; preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management following pituitary surgery; growth hormone in adults, polycystic ovary syndrome, hypercalcemic crisis, parathyroid hormone-related protein, congenital hyperinsulinism, and hypokalemic periodic and non-periodic paralysis
  • New and expanded coverage of diabetes mellitus includes hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure, glucocorticoid-induced hyperglycemia, C-peptide, cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, the artificial pancreas, glycated proteins, inhaled insulin, and the application of stem cells in diabetes mellitus
  • Serves as an excellent resource for board preparation, as well as a concise daily reference for endocrinologists, general practitioners, internists, pediatricians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others who see patients with primary or underlying endocrine disease
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Lavin, Norman
ISBN:
978-1-49-632264-7
Specialty:
  • Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Internal Medicine
  • Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • Primary Care/Family Medicine/General Practice
  • Residents
Language:
English
Edition:
5th
Pages:
986
Publication Year:
2018

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