Pathological endocrinology

Leptin: Regulation and Clinical Applications

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Twenty years after its discovery, recombinant human leptin has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with lipodystrophy. Beginning with a synthesis of the vast body of work on its discovery, dissection of mechanisms, and effects in exper…

Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics

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This Brief highlights Informatics and related techniques to Computer Science Professionals, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Bioinformatics researchers and other interdisciplinary researchers. Chapters include the Bioinformatics of Diabetes and several computational algorithms and st…

Computational Intelligence Techniques for Comparative Genomics: Dedicated to Prof. Allam Appa Rao on the Occasion…

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This Brief highlights Informatics and related techniques to Computer Science Professionals, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Bioinformatics researchers and other interdisciplinary researchers. Chapters include the Bioinformatics of Diabetes and several computational algorithms and st…

Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Practical Approach to Diagnosis, Classification, …

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This book provides a broad overview of pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms, focusing on the most important developments in the technologies used to diagnose, classify, and treat them. After a historical and epidemiological overview, the opening chapters examine the various diagn…

Thyroid Cancer: A Case-Based Approach

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Now in its second edition utilizing brand new clinical case material, this popular, user-friendly text presents the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer and related clinical issues, providing clinicians in endocrinology and oncology with the best real-world strategies to pr…

Neuroendocrine Neoplasia Management: New Approaches for Diagnosis and Treatment

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This book provides the most recent update on the management of neuroendocrine neoplasia (NEN), a term covering all tumors of various organs and/or with a particular histology, including MEN (multiple endocrine neoplasia) related tumors, MiNEN (mixed neuroendocrine-non-neuroendoc…

70 Years of Levothyroxine

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This open access book presents the history, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of levothyroxine, discussing its role in the thyroid pathophysiology of patients of various ages and during pregnancy. It also describes the influence of levothyroxine on heart, bone and in cancer.…

Complex Cases and Comorbidity in Eating Disorders: Assessment and Management

by Sartirana, Massimiliano, Calugi, Simona, Dalle Grave, Riccardo

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In this book the authors share the strategies and procedures they use in their clinical daily practice to assess and treat complex cases of eating disorders. The strategic and pragmatic approach to the management of medical and psychiatric comorbidity coexisting with eating diso…

Endocrine Emergencies: Recognition and Treatment

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Medical emergencies due to disorders of the endocrine system represent a unique category of clinical care. Hypotension, fever, palpitations, confusion, and electrolyte abnormalities are all signs of disparate endocrine emergencies that require immediate diagnoses and treatment. …

Practical Clinical Endocrinology

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This practical book aims to cover the whole scope of clinical endocrinology, including both common and selected rare but important diseases, with an emphasis on practical clinical management. A number of different questions and problems in clinical routine are discussed in this …

Endocrine Conditions in Pediatrics: A Practical Guide

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This book is aimed at primary care providers who care for the pediatric age group (general pediatrician, the PCP working with pediatric patients, and family medicine providers) with the goal of covering the endocrine differential diagnosis of common signs and symptoms of possibl…

Progestogens in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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This book brings together the most up-to-date information about the physiology of progestogens. Addressing the bidirectional communication between hormones, fertility, tumors, and autoimmunity, it provides the basic science and clinical perspectives of progestogens which have no…

Diabetes in Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Diagnosis and Management

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Currently, available information on pediatric and adolescent diabetes is limited to chapters in larger books covering the broader topic of pediatric endocrinology, and these do not have the space to delve into specific topics. This concise, timely book contains everything that a…

Difficult Decisions in Bariatric Surgery

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This book provides a practical guide to decision making within bariatric surgery. Through uniform and well-structured chapters, topics relating to patient selection, preoperative preparation, the ethics of bariatric surgery, choice of procedure, complications, late failure and m…

Therapeutic Lipidology

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The second edition of this important book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of clinical lipidology. Brand new chapters focus on recent advances in the field including novel biomarkers and the microbiome, genomics of cardiovascular risks, PCSK9 inhibitors, imaging…

Neonatal and Pediatric Liver and Metabolic Diseases: Clinical Casebook

by Ghoda, Manoj K.

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This book is written to simplify complex topics of neonatal and pediatric liver and metabolic diseases which are encountered by clinicians on a day to day basis. Neonatal and early pediatric liver diseases are very much different from adult liver diseases. Most of them are eithe…

Endocrinology and Systemic Diseases

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This work offers a comprehensive reference guide to help clinicians in the field of Internal Medicine addressing common aspects of endocrinological disorders in their daily practice. The exponential growth in our knowledge of biomedicine calls for continuous multidisciplinary ap…

Diabetes: from Research to Clinical Practice: Volume 4

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This contributed volume discusses the most important aspects of diabetes in 27 selected chapters contributed by experts in the field. Its contents range from essential background information to recent advances, state-of-the-art treatments and in-depth discussions on many of the …