Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric: The Adrenal Gland

6. Revised Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-323-24059-8
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 281 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Give your patients the benefit of today's best adrenal endocrinology know-how with The Adrenal Gland, a new derivative book from the same expert endocrinologists responsible for the highly acclaimed two-volume textbook, Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric. Never before available as a stand-alone offering, this compilation of chapters from the leading resource in endocrinology covers all material related to the adrenal gland.
- Stay abreast of the newest knowledge and advances in adrenal endocrinology, including.
- the molecular genetics of pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas
- the newest therapies for adrenocortical carcinoma, written by the organizers of the first major international trials
- a survey of adrenal imaging, authored by the world's major diagnostic imaging specialist on cross-sectional CT and MR scanning of the adrenal gland
- a comprehensive survey of adrenarche and the adrenopause - topics not adequately covered in most other adrenal endocrinology books
- and much more.
- Count on all the authority that has made Endocrinology, 6th Edition, edited by Drs. Jameson and De Groot, the go-to clinical medical reference for endocrinologists worldwide.
- Make the best clinical endocrinology decisions with an enhanced emphasis on evidence-based practice in conjunction with expert opinion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossman, Ashley

Grossman, Ashley B.

Jameson, J. Larry

De Groot, Leslie J.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Endokrinologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pädiatrie, Neonatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The Principles, Enzymes, and Pathways of Human Steroidogenesis

- Glucocorticoid Action: Physiology

- Glucocorticoid Receptors: Their Mechanisms of Action and Glucocorticoid Resistance

- Aldosterone: Secretion and Action

- Glucocorticoid Therapy

- Adrenal Insufficiency

- Adrenal Causes of Hypercortisolism

- Defects of Adrenal Steroidogenesis

- Adrenarche and Adrenopause

- Adrenal Gland Imaging

- Adrenocortical Carcinoma

- Primary Mineralocorticoid Excess Syndromes and Hypertension

- Mineralocorticoid Deficiency

- Pheochromocytoma

- Adrenal Surgery

- Cushing's Syndrome