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The Medicine portfolio strives to advance medicine by delivering superior evidence-based education, reference information and decision support tools to clinicians, trainees, and students. Specialties covered include Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Radiology & Imaging, Pathology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hematology & Oncology, Plastic Surgery, and many more. The Medicine portfolio includes world-renowned titles such as Gray's Anatomy and Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, Braunwald's Heart Disease, Goldman-Cecil Medicine, Osborn's Brain, Dermatology (Bolognia), Diagnostic Ultrasound (Rumack), The Harriet Lane Handbook, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Ferri's Clinical Advisor, Conn's Current Therapy, and more.

  • Polypharmacy, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28-2
    • April 30, 2012
    • Holly Holmes
    • English
    With the use of multiple medications in the elderly patient comes the risk of drug-related problems. This issue covers polypharmacy in the elderly patient with topics that include: The Interplay between Polypharmacy, Geriatric Conditions, and Adverse Drug Reactions, Factors Leading to Excessive Polypharmacy, Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Diseases and How They Contribute to Polypharmacy, Polypharmacy in Nursing Home Residents, Psychotropic Polypharmacy, Deprescribing Trials: Methods to Reduce Polypharmacy and the Impact on Prescribing and Clinical Outcomes, Ethical Framework for Medication Discontinuation in Nursing Home Residents with Limited Life Expectancy, Pharmacokinetics in the Elderly and the Interaction with Polypharmacy, Medication Adherence to Multi-drug Regimens, Improvements in Electronic Prescribing to Reduce Inappropriate Medication Use and Polypharmacy, and Tools to Decrease Polypharmacy.
  • Percutaneous Interventions in Women, An Issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1-2
    • April 28, 2012
    • Annapoorna S. Kini + 1 more
    • English
    Heart disease is the leading cause of death among US women over the age of 65, resulting in more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. Women are less likely to survive heart attacks than are men, possibly because symptoms in women may differ and may be less recognizable. In addition, women consistently tend to have worse clinical outcomes in percutaneous coronary interventions than do men. For these reasons, an issue on percutaneous interventions in women is timely.
  • Child and Adolescent Depression, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21-2
    • April 28, 2012
    • Stuart J. Goldman + 1 more
    • English
    Recent work on emotional regulation gives a powerful new lens through which to view the evolution across childhood and adolescence of the lived experience and clinical presentation of depression. We have a richer picture of the depressed child, and the child at risk for depression, in interaction with family and wider world. We know more about the development and the developmental psychopathology of coping strategies. These advances give provocative clues to the actual processes whereby well-established risk and protective factors might interact to produce, sustain or curtail a depressive syndrome. This in turn opens the door to treatment and prevention approaches that are truly developmentally informed. This is the philosophy behind this completely updated and comprehensive analysis of childhood depression.
  • Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22-2
    • April 28, 2012
    • Kenneth J. Chang
    • English
    As Executive Director of the H.H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center, University of California, Irvine, Dr. Chang brings the wealth of hix experience and knowledge to the topic of interventional endoscopic ultrasound. His issue is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the best practices of interventional EUS. Articles in this section address FNA of solid pancreatic tumors, pancreatic cysts, diagnosis of SMT's, lung cancer staging, pancreatic drainage, and celiac neurolysis. The second section addresses emerging technologies for intervention EUS. These articles discuss pancreatic cyst ablation, vascular access and therapy, anti-tumor agents, fiducial markers and brachytherapy, image enhancement, tumor ablation, and anastomosis.
  • Quality of Life Issues in Dermatology, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 30-2
    • April 28, 2012
    • Suephy C. Chen
    • English
    This issue defines the concepts and outlines the concerns surrounding quality of life issues in dermatology. Articles review the concepts of general versus disease-specific measures and include Patient Preference QOL Measures, and Review of Children and Family QOL Measures. Disease specific QOL topics are also included, such as Melanoma, Acne, and Eczema.
  • Pediatric Rheumatology, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 59-2
    • April 28, 2012
    • Ronald M. Laxer + 1 more
    • English
    The Guest Editors have assembled international experts in rheumatology to present an update to pediatricians. The basics are covered, including an article on the principles of inflammation in the child and one on the approach to the child with joint inflammation. From there, specifics are presented in the following articles: Laboratory Testing in Rheumatology; Rheumatologic Emergencies in newborns, children and adolescents; Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; Macrophage Activation Syndrome; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies in Childhood; Scleroderma; Vasculitis; Kawasaki disease; Autoinflammatory diseases; Approach to the patient with non-inflammatory musculoskeletal pain; and Immune deficiency diseases with rheumatic manifestations.
  • Volume 1, Issue 2, an issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics - E-Book

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1-2
    • April 28, 2012
    • David B. Feinbloom + 1 more
    • English
    This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This second issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the management of class III and IV heart failure; pulmonary hypertension; diabetic foot infections; hyponatremia; acute pancreatitis; management of acute stroke; prevention of deep vein thrombosis; electroconvulsive therapy; advance directives; and legal pitfalls for the hospitalist.
  • Pack e-Books OPHTALMOLOGIE - Elsevier Masson

    • 1st Edition
    • April 26, 2012
    • Damien Gatinel + 4 more
    • French
    Le meilleur de l'OPHTALMOLOGIE en version eBook ! <br><br> Ce pack e-Book est composé des 3 ouvrages suivants : <br> Topographie cornéenne de Damien Gatinel <br> Manuel de strabologie de Nicole Jeanrot et François Jeanrot <br> Rétinopathie diabétique de Pascale Massin et Ali Erginay <br><br> L'achat de ce pack vous permet de bénéficier d'une remise de 31% par rapport à l'achat de chaque eBook séparé. Le prix affiché tient déjà compte de la remise. <br> Topographie cornéenne : La topographie cornéenne correspond à la représentation graphique, sous forme d'une carte, de certaines propriétés géométriques de la cornée (courbure, élévation, épaisseur). Cet ouvrage, le premier sur le sujet, expose dans un premier temps les éléments nécessaires à la bonne compréhension de la technique : terminologie, principes optiques, instruments, bases physiques. La seconde partie analyse des cartes topographiques cornéennes telles qu'elles sont utilisées en pratique courante : il s'agit de cartes typiques interprétées qui permettent au lecteur de répondre à l'essentiel des situations cliniques. <br> Manuel de strabologie : Les anomalies de la vision binoculaire entraînent des déficits visuels et sensoriels que l'examen strabologique permet de dépister. Diagnostiqués précocement et traités par une thérapeutique adaptée, ces troubles peuvent être pour la plupart corrigés. Afin d'aider l'ophtalmologiste et l'orthoptiste à établir le bon diagnostic et optimiser la prise en charge du patient, ce manuel, clair et didactique, est un outil indispensable à la pratique quotidienne. Après un rappel anatomique et physiologique, l'ouvrage aborde les méthodes d'examen et la stratégie thérapeutique la plus adaptée en fonction des principales pathologies que l'on rencontre en strabologie : amblyopie, hétérophories, strabismes et nystagmus, paralysies oculomotrices, torticolis oculaire. <br> Rétinopathie diabétique : Véritable ouvrage de référence en langue française sur la rétinopathie diabétique, ce livre constitue un guide pratique destiné à aider les ophtalmologistes et internes en ophtalmologie, ainsi que les diabétologues et les médecins généralistes à décrypter cette affection. Il est le fruit de l'expérience accumulée depuis presque vingt ans au sein de la consultation d'ophtalmologie-diab... de l'hôpital Lariboisière. <br>
  • Vestibular Schwannoma: Evidence-based Treatment, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45-2
    • April 23, 2012
    • Fred F. Telischi + 1 more
    • English
    Clinical information for Otolaryngologists is provided in topics that include: Natural History (including histology, epidemiology, etc.); Clinical and Diagnostic Evaluation (including cost effectiveness of imaging vs audiometry); Neurophysiological Correlates: Preoperative, Intraoperative and Postoperative – Facial nerve; Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and Genetics; The Art of Management Decision Making: From Intuition to Evidence Based Medicine (including analysis of various decision making strategies); Radiation Therapy and Radiosurgery: Indications, Techniques and Results (CK, GK, LINAC,etc...); Management of Radiation/Radiosurgi... complications and failures; Retrosigmoid Approach: Indications, Techniques and Results; Translabyrinthine Approach: Indications, Techniques and Results; Middle Fossa Approach: Indications, Techniques and Results; Endoscopic Approach: Indications, Techniques and Results; Management of Surgical Complications and Failures; Chemotherapy: Present and Future (new trials of Avastin and similar drugs); Habilitation of Auditory and Vestibular Dysfunction (Baha, vestibular rehab, etc); Habilitation of Facial Nerve Dysfunction (neural grafts, muscle transfers, etc...); Support Groups and Patient Resources.
  • Evolving Treatment Paradigms in Renal Cancer, An Issue of Urologic Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39-2
    • April 23, 2012
    • William C. Huang + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of the Urologic Clinics provides a timely update on Renal Cancer and the evolving treatment standards in urology. Articles include Contemporary Imaging of the Renal Mass, Surgical Approach to Multifocal Renal Cancers, and Systemic Therapy Prior to Surgery. Effects of the various existing surgical approaches on long-term renal function is also discussed, along with a review of the current trends in surgical management of renal cancers with specific attention to utilization of laparoscopic approach, partial nephrectomy, ablative technologies and observation.