
Endocrinology, An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice
- 1st Edition, Volume 51-3 - July 30, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Michael Malone, Vasudha Jain
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 8 2 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 8 3 - 2
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest editors Drs. Michael Malone and Vasudha Jain bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Endocrinology. Top experts provide practical approaches to the evaluation, diagnosis, management, and complications of common endocrinology disorders encountered in the primary care setting, including neuroendocrine tumors, endocrinology during pregnancy, endocrine emergencies, metabolic bone disease, thyroid disorders, and more.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including female reproductive endocrine disorders; male reproductive endocrine disorders; pituitary disorders; obesity; sports endocrinology; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on endocrinology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Primary Care
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Glucose Disorders
- Key points
- Hyperglycemia
- Prediabetes
- Diabetes mellitus type 2
- Medications
- Diabetes mellitus type 1
- Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults
- Gestational diabetes mellitus
- Maturity-onset diabetes of the young
- Hypoglycemia
- Clinics care points
- Calcium Disorders
- Key points
- Overview of physiology
- Clinics care points
- Hypercalcemia
- Management of hypercalcemia
- Hypercalcemic crisis
- Surgical intervention
- Clinics care points
- Hypocalcemia
- Management
- Clinics care points
- Thyroid Disorders
- Key points
- General principles of thyroid endocrinology
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Subclinical thyroid disease
- Sick euthyroid disorder
- Clinics care points
- Adrenal Pathologies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pheochromocytoma
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hypercortisolism
- Clinics care points
- Adrenal adenomas
- Bilateral adrenal masses or bilateral adrenal hyperplasia
- Hormonal evaluation
- Clinics care points
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Treatment of chronic adrenal insufficiency
- Mineralocorticoid replacement in chronic primary adrenal insufficiency
- Dehydroepiandrosterone replacement in chronic primary adrenal insufficiency
- Acute adrenal insufficiency (also known as adrenal crisis, Addisonian crisis)
- Prevention of acute adrenal crisis
- Clinics care points
- Female Reproductive Endocrine Disorders
- Key points
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Primary ovarian insufficiency
- Complications
- Summary
- Transgender
- Menopause
- Treatments
- Complications
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Metabolic Bone Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Male Reproductive Endocrine Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- Primary and secondary hypogonadism
- Gynecomastia
- Endocrine causes of sexual dysfunction
- Endocrine causes of infertility
- Transgender endocrinology
- Clinics care points
- Pituitary Disorders
- Key points
- Hypopituitarism
- Specific pituitary hormone deficiencies
- Clinics care points
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, Type 2A, and Type 2B
- Key points
- Introduction
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type I
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B
- Clinics care points
- Endocrine Emergencies
- Key points
- Thyroid emergencies: thyroid storm and myedema coma
- Parathyroid emergencies: hypercalcemic crisis and hypocalcemic crisis
- Adrenal emergencies: adrenal crisis and pheochromocytoma
- Pancreatic endocrine emergencies: diabetic ketoacidosis
- Pituitary emergencies: pituitary apoplexy
- Obesity
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Therapeutic options
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Sports Endocrinology
- Key points
- Introduction to sports endocrinology
- Exercise and diabetes
- Bone health for the female athlete
- The female athlete triad (RED-S)
- Performance enhancing drugs
- Clinics care points
- Endocrinology During Pregnancy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Hypothalamic–pituitary–ovarian axis
- The placenta
- Maternal metabolism and fetal growth regulation
- Lactogenesis and lactation
- Hyperglycemic conditions in pregnancy
- Thyroid Disorders During Pregnancy
- Other Pregnancy-related Endocrine Conditions
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
- Key points
- Introduction to neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Gastropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Pheochromocytoma
- Merkel cell tumors
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 51-3
- Published: July 30, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443293825
- eBook ISBN: 9780443293832
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Michael Malone
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, MUSC Department of Family Medicine Program Director, Tidelands Health, MUSC Family Medicine Residency Designated Institutional Official - GME, Tidelands Health, USAVJ
Vasudha Jain
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, MUSC Department of Family Medicine, Assistant Program Director, Tidelands Health MUSC Family Medicine Residency, USA