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  • Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer, An Issue of PET Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4-2
    • Hossein Jadvar
    • English
    This issue provides a comprehensive overview of imaging of the prostate using PET and PET/CT. In addition to providing correlates from other modalities, this issue also covers treatment planning for radiation therapy and follow-up.

  • Correction of Multiplanar Deformity of the Foot and Ankle, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14-3
    • Anish R. Kadakia
    • English
    Multiplanar deformities are one of the most difficult deformities to correct in orthopedics. Correction of deformity in the foot and ankle is particularly complex and must address the alignment of the foot, prior surgical interventions, arthrosis, neuropathy, musculotendinous abnormalities, instability, and skin ulceration. The goals are to provide a plantigrade foot that allows for shoewear and a stable platform for ambulation. In the past few years that have been significant advancements in the understanding and treatment of these conditions. This issue will provide the reader with a thorough review of all that is new on this interesting and difficult subject.

  • Polysomnography, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4-3
    • Lawrence J. Epstein + 1 more
    • English
    Topics include: The History of Polysomnography and Sleep Technology, Generating a Signal: Biopotentials, Amplifiers and Filters, Recording sleep; Electrodes, 10/20 Recording system and sleep system specifications, Staging sleep, Respiratory monitoring equipment and detection of respiratory events, Differentiating Nocturnal Movements; Leg movements, Parasomnias and Seizures, Cardiac monitoring during sleep, Determination of Sleepiness – MWT & MSLT, Pediatric Polysomnography, PSG features of medical and psychiatric disorders and their treatments, Artifacts and Troubleshooting, Portable Monitoring, PAP titration, The Future of Sleep and Circadian Testing

  • Hemostasis and Coagulation, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29-2
    • Henry M. Rinder
    • English
    The understanding of hemostasis physiology has been considerably advanced by models of kinetics and by the complicated interplay of cells and soluble coagulation factors. How this physiology is currently, or will eventually, be reflected in clinical laboratory testing is the subject of this monograph; this information is key for laboratorians to implement physiologic concepts into practical data and for clinicians to understand the basis of and therefore correctly treat hemostatic disease. Many thousands of patients present with bleeding disorders or bleeding complications of other diseases, and millions of individuals suffer the morbidity and mortality of thromboembolic complications. How laboratory testing confronts the challenge of predicting different hemostatic risks and guiding therapy is the critical subtext of the chapters in this monograph. New developments in hemostasis physiology have identified thrombin as an important, if not central, coordinator of hemostatic function and thus a target for measurement to assess hemostatic function and risk. Whether such measurements as endogenous thrombin potential or thromboelastography will accurately predict and/or quantitate global hemostatic function is an important question. Modeling the clinical risks of bleeding or thromboembolism currently uses the laboratory presence or absence of particular risk factors, but our clinical understanding of risk appears to more closely approximate a dynamic model, even within individual patients. Therefore, testing for platelet dysfunction or comprehending the functional implications of a lupus anticoagulant may rely on our evolving comprehension of hemostasis phyisology and perhaps require more sophisticated interpretation of clinical predictors of hemostatic risk. This monograph aims to shed some light in these areas and promote investigation of such key hemostasis issues.

  • Infections in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23-3
    • Marin H. Kollef + 1 more
    • English
    This issue covers the full gamut of infectious disease issues encountered in the ICU, including the approach to the febrile patient, management of septic shock, severe community-acquired pneumonia, management of ventilator-associate... pneumonia, approach to the immunocompromised host, bloodstream infection, severe soft tissue infections, management of intra-abdominal sepsis, meningitis and brain abscess, treatment of fungal infections, acute infective endocarditis, new antimicrobial agents, antimicrobial stewardship, infection control, and C. difficile infection.

  • Preoperative Medical Consultation, An Issue of Medical Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 93-5
    • Lee A. Fleisher + 1 more
    • English
    Preoperative consultation and preparation, and perioperative management of surgical patients are extremely important responsibilities of the internist. This issue of the Medical Clinics of North America provides new insights and recommendations on how to handle the following situations: emergency and urgent surgery; perioperative management of the ambulatory surgery patient; perioperative anticoagulation management; surgery in the patient with liver disease; surgery in the patient with renal dysfunction; hematological problems in the preoperative patient; obesity, the metabolic syndrome, and the surgical patient; identification and evaluation of the patient with lung disease; noncardiac surgery in the patient with heart disease; preoperative preparation in the patient for cardiac surgery; preoperative preparation of the surgical patient with neurological disease; and preoperative evaluation of the oncology patient.

  • Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy

    A Clinical Manual
    • 2nd Edition
    • Joanne Watchie
    • English
    Quick and convenient, this resource provides a clinical overview of a wide variety of diseases and disorders that affect the cardiovascular system and lungs and the physical therapy management of patients with them. It integrates key concepts of pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and laboratory information and findings with clinically important medical and surgical interventions and pharmacologic therapies — then applies the material to physical therapy evaluation and treatment. This edition adds an introductory chapter on the oxygen transport pathway, the effects of dysfunction along the pathway, and the implications for physical therapy.

  • New PET Radiotracers, An Issue of PET Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4-1
    • Robert H. Mach
    • English
    New radiotracers will make possible the imaging of other parts of the body using PET. This issue reviews the latest advances and provides a look to the future of PET imaging.

  • Biomarkers in Heart Failure, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5-4
    • Eugene Braunwald
    • English
    Biomarkers — which may be enzymes, hormones, biologic substances, or other markers of cardiac stress and malfunction — appear to have growing clinical importance in heart failure. Many biomarkers appear to provide important information about the cause of heart failure or the identification of those at risk for heart failure or appear to be useful in risk stratification, in the diagnosis of heart failure, or in monitoring therapy. This issue discusses the current and potential future role of biomarkers and includes articles that explore individual biomarkers in depth.

  • Enteroscopy, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19-3
    • David R. Cave
    • English
    The small intestine has, until 2001, been an organ largely inaccessible to conventional endoscopy. Since that time a variety of endoscopic technologies have become available that have transformed small bowel diagnosis and therapy with a concomitant increase in interest in this organ and its disorders. This issue is divided into two sections; first, the new technologies are presented and include video capsule endoscopy, single and double balloon enteroscopy, and very recently the innovative Spirus screw technology. An article on comparison of these new technologies and the evolving techniques of CT and MRI is included. Indications, contraindications, complications and therapeutic adjunctive devices are discussed. The second section addresses the application of these technologies to specific diseases and discusses how these technological advances have changed their management. An article on intra-operative enteroscopy and its utilization in this new era is included.

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