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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.

    • Basic and Clinical Immunology

      • 2nd Edition
      • April 24, 2009
      • Mark Peakman + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Basic science and clinical immunology are demystified for the medical and other health sciences student. The basic immunological processes are described first, with a level of detail restricted to what is appropriate for medical and other similar curricula. In the second part of the book immunological mechanisms behind major diseases of the various body systems are explained. Throughout the text clinical details are highlighted and more in-depth material is differentiated from the main text.
    • Hypertensive Disease: Current Challenges, New Concepts, and Management, An Issue of Medical Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 93-3
      • June 11, 2009
      • Edward D. Frohlich
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of the Medical Clinics of North America brings the practicing clinician up to date on the current challenges, new concepts, and management of hypertensive disease. Topics covered include risks in hypertension; new biological concepts of target organ involvement in hypertension; hypertension and the metabolic syndrome; aging versus hypertension; hypertension, systolic blood pressure, and large arteries; oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, and hypertension; current thinking about hypertensive heart disease; diastolic dysfunction as a link between hypertension and heart failure; hypertension and cardiac failure in its various forms; hypertension and atherogenesis; the kidney, hypertension, and remaining challenges; current thinking about renovascular hypertension; obesity and hypertension; and barriers to adherence in hypertension management.
    • Historical Aspects of Critical Illness and Critical Care Medicine, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 25-1
      • April 2, 2009
      • Anand Kumar + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue will take a look at modern critical care techniques in a historical context. Topics include: "Shock and Organ failure", "Battlefield trauma, traumatic shock and consequences: War-related advances in critical care", "Lessons from Modern Disasters and Wars: Bhopal, Chernobyl, Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Tsunami, Iraq", "Plagues with Critical Care Implications: Legionairres, Staph toxic shock, SARS, Hantavirus, Group A strep nec toxic shock, Marburg and hemorrhagic fevers, Avian flu" and more!
    • The Anterior Approach for Hip Reconstruction, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 40-3
      • July 31, 2009
      • Paul E. Beaule
      • English
      • Hardback
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      In the last decade, the treatment of hip disease has made huge advancements in terms of patients returning to high levels of function and also in the durability of hip prostheses. Although the anterior approach to the hip has had a long history in orthopedics, it is only in recent years that surgeons are rediscovering this approach to treat both new pathology i.e. femoroacetabular impingement, as well as to facilitate patient’s recovery after hip replacement surgery. This issue of OCNA brings together leading experts in the field of hip reconstruction which have been to explore the full potential of the anterior approach in restoring hip function.
    • Cancer: What the Primary Care Practitioner Needs to Know, Part II, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 36-4
      • December 11, 2009
      • Richard Wender + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Cancer is a chronic life-threatening disease that requires a comprehensive approach, including health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. Because primary care physicians are critically important to the implementation of cancer control strategies, we have devoted two issues of Primary Care to keeping primary care physicians informed about the most recent developments in cancer treatment and prevention. Part II focuses on diagnosis, management of cancer survivors, and palliative care.
    • Hand Burns, An Issue of Hand Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 25-4
      • October 30, 2009
      • Matthew B. Klein
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The effects of hand burn injuries can be critical to quality of life and crucial to long-term functional outcomes following burn injury. Since hands are at the front line of human contact, a high percentage of thermal injury involves the upper extremity and, in particular, the hand. Hand burns can vary in severity from shallow burns requiring local wound care and aggressive range of motion therapy to complex wounds requiring repair of joints, tendons, and other soft tissue. Historically, given the poor survival associated with severe burn injury, many patients with hand burns simply did not survive the acute phase of treatment. If patients survived the systemic insult of burn injury, often the hands were neglected relative to more extensive areas on the trunk. However, with the widespread use of early excision and grafting, as well as great advancements in critical care, survival following thermal injury has become the rule rather than the exception. Therefore, emphasis in burn care has shifted towards optimizing the functional and psychosocial outcomes of those that survive their injury. Accordingly, optimal management of hand burns has received increasing attention given the critical importance of hand recovery to long-term outcome. In this volume of Hand Clinics, experts in burn care present an overview of pediatric and adult hand burn management — including shallow burns, as well as complex injuries from deep thermal burns or electrical injury. In addition, chapters on pathphysiology of scar, burn hand rehabilitation and assessing outcomes of hand injury emphasize critical concepts in achieving optimal hand function after injury.
    • Contact Dermatitis, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 27-3
      • July 31, 2009
      • Susan Nedorost
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Dermatologic Clinics examines Contact Dermatitis. Guest Editor Susan Nedorost has assembled a panel of world-class experts who offer reviews on topics, including Patient education to enhance contact dermatitis evaluation and testing, Recognizing and testing new allergens, Determining relevance of patch tests and avoidance strategies, Hand/face/neck localized pattern: sticky problems—resins, Hand dermatitis: a focus on allergic contact dermatitis to biocides, Run-off pattern or perioral facial dermatitis due to hair and lip products, Clinical patterns of hand and foot dermatitis: emphasis on rubber and chromate allergens, Unusual patterns: medicaments, Clinical patterns of phytodermatitis, Factors associated with textile pattern dermatitis due to contact allergy to dyes, finishes, foams and preservatives, Acute and recurrent vesicular hand dermatitis, Systemic contact dermatitis, Management of occupational dermatitis, and Public health challenges in contact dermatitis.
    • Fetal Surgery, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 36-2
      • July 23, 2009
      • Hanmin Lee
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest edited by Dr. Hanmin Lee, examines the topic of Fetal Surgery. The issue begins with an overview, including the history of fetal surgery, ethical implications, and maternal management and outcome. Imaging (including Ultrasound, MRI, and Echocardiology) and Specific Diseases (including Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, Fetal Lung Lesions, Obstructive Uropathy, TTTS, MMC, TRAP and other discordant twins, and Congenital Cardiac Anomalies) are also examines. The issue concludes with a look at research and future directions, including Stem Cell Transplant/Gene Therapy, Consortiums/Registri... and Fetal Tissue Engineering.
    • Enhanced Endoscopic Imaging, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 19-2
      • June 3, 2009
      • Grace Elta + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Endoscopic imaging has become an important clinical tool for the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and is poised to advance in a revolutionary fashion in the next few years. The articles in this issue are a result of an ASGE Imaging workshop held in early 2008. The goal of the workshop, and this issue, is to bring together clinical investigators and biophotonics engineers to help develop and clinically apply enhanced imaging technologies for the eventual benefit of patients. Articles in this issue are devoted to chromoendoscopy, autofluorescence endoscopy, reflectance spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography, laser confocal microscopy, and targeted endoscopic imaging to name a few.