Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2010

A text on internal medicine. It includes medical information, from house officers, residents, and practicing physicians to patients and family members. Written by clinicians, it offers the insights into symptoms, signs, epidemiology, and treatment for more than 1,000 diseases and disorders.

List of contents

Aus dem Inhalt:

1. Disease Prevention & Health
Maintenance - Michael Pignone and René Salazar
2. Common Symptoms - Ralph Gonzales and Paul L. Nadler
3. Preoperative Evaluation & Perioperative Management - Hugo Q. Cheng
4. Geriatric Disorders - C. Bree Johnston, G. Michael Harper, and C. Seth Landefeld
5. Palliative Care & Pain Management - Michael W. Rabow and Steven Z. Pantilat
6. Dermatologic Disorders - Timothy G. Berger
7. Disorders of the Eyes and Lids - Paul Riordan-Eva
8. Ear, Nose, & Throat Disorders - Lawrence R. Lustig and Joshua Schindler
9. Pulmonary Disorders - Mark S. Chesnutt, Alex H. Gifford, and Thomas J. Prendergast
10. Heart Disease - Thomas M. Bashore, Christopher B. Granger, Patrick Hranitzky, and Manesh R. Patel
11. Systemic Hypertension - Michael Sutters
12. Blood Vessel & Lymphatic Disorders - Joseph H. Rapp, Rajabrata Sarkar, and Christopher D. Owens
13. Blood Disorders - Charles A. Linker
14. Disorders of Hemostatis, Thrombosis, and Antithrombotic Therapy - Patrick F. Fogarty and Tracy Minichiello
15. Gastrointestinal Disorders - Kenneth R. McQuaid
16. Liver, Biliary Tract, & Pancreas Disorders - Lawrence S. Friedman
17. Breast Disorders - Armando E. Giuliano and Sara A. Hurvitz
18. Gynecologic Disorders - H. Trent MacKay
19. Obstetrics and Obstetric Disorders - Vanessa L. Rogers, Susan Cox, and William R. Crombleholme
20. Musculoskeletal and Immunologic Disorders - David B. Hellmann and John B. Imboden, Jr.
21. Fluid & Electrolyte Disorders - Kerry C. Cho
22. Kidney Disease - Suzanne Watnick and Gail Morrison
23. Urologic Disorders - Maxwell V. Meng, Marshall L. Stoller, and Thomas Walsh
24. Nervous System Disorders - Michael J. Aminoff
25. Psychiatric Disorders - Stuart J. Eisendrath and Jonathan E. Lichtmacher
26. Endocrine Disorders - Paul A. Fitzgerald
27. Diabetes Mellitus & Hypoglycemia - Umesh Masharani
28. Lipid Disorders - Robert B. Baron
29. Nutritional Disorders, Robert B. Baron
30. Common Problems in Infectious Diseases & Antimicrobial Therapy - Peter V. Chin-Hong, B. Joseph Guglielmo, and Richard A. Jacobs
31. HIV Infection & AIDS - Andrew R. Zolopa and Mitchell H. Katz
32. Viral & Rickettsial Infections - Vicente F. Corrales-Medina and Wayne X. Shandera
33. Bacterial & Chlamydial Infections - Brian S. Schwartz and Henry F. Chambers
34. Spirochetal Infections - Susan S. Philip
35. Protozoal & Helminthic Infections - Philip J. Rosenthal
36. Mycotic Infections - Samuel A. Shelburne and Richard J. Hamill
37. Disorders Due to Physical Agents - Jacqueline A. Nemer and Brent R.W. Moelleken
38. Poisoning - Kent R. Olson
39. Cancer - Patricia A. Cornett and Tiffany O. Dea
40. Clinical Genetic Disorders - Reed E. Pyeritz
41. Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Ellen F. Hughes and Kevin Barrows
Appendix: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring & Laboratory References Intervals - C. Diana Nicoll and Chuanyi Mark Lu /br
Index b Online Only Chapters: www.AccessMedicine.com/CMDT/b
Anti-infective Chemotherapeutic & Antibiotic Agents - B. Joseph Guglielmo
Diagnostic Testing & Medical Decision Making - C. Diana Nicoll, Michael Pignone, and Cnuanyi Mark Lu
Basic Genetics - Reed E. Pyeritz
Information Technology in Patient Care - Russ Cucina

About the author

Stephen J. McPhee, MD , Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, University of California San Francisco. Dr. McPhee is a key figure in the general internal medicine community, and a leading authority of palliative and end of life care.

Maxine A. Papadakis, MD , Professor of Clinical Medicine, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen McPhee, Maxine Papadakis
• Assisted by: Stephen J. Mcphee (Editor), Maxine A. Papadakis (Editor)
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2009
• EAN: 9780071624442
• ISBN: 978-0-07-162444-2
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 253 mm x 50 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine