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Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Twenty-Third edition (June 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781728282
ISBN-13: 978-0781728287.

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This volume in the popular Field Guide Series offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of internal medicine. Inside, you’ll discover discussions on pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of medical emergencies and the most common diseases encountered in hospitalized patients. This visually exciting mini-reference includes hundreds of color illustrations to guide your diagnostic decisions. Learn what every internist must know to meet the challenges of daily practice . Expert authorship by Yale Internal Medicine senior residents and physicians provides the current, accurate information you need to diagnose and treat more than 120 of the most important problems encountered by internists. . Concise, accessible style delivers a succinct overview of internal medicine ideal for students on a time-limited rotation, focusing on high-impact information. . Logical organization presents topics by medical specialty. Chapters are structured in a consistent format, so the facts you need are always at your fingertips. . Color atlas section with more than 200 illustrations includes x-rays, scans, and clinical findings that provide the visual guidance you need to hone your diagnostic skills.

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (October 18, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416038663
ISBN-13: 978-1416038665.

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The field of medical mycology has witnessed major advances in recent years. This issue brings physicians up to date in the current methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of medically important fungal infections. Leading authorities in the field address the most important emerging fungi that physicians are encountering more and more today. Other fungi covered include aspergillosis, invasive candidiasis, zygomycosis, cryptococcosis, coccidioidomycosis, and phaeohyphomycosis. Endemic mycoses such as histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, sporotrichosis, and penicilliosis are also addressed. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antifungals are addressed, as well as antifungal susceptibility testing, and non-culture based diagnostics for opportunistic fungi. Attention is also given to how best to deal with mycoses in children.

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (November 27, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416038094
ISBN-13: 978-1416038092.

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Angioedema is a deep swelling of the skin, similar to urticaria, but occurs in deeper skin layers. Angioedema often involves the face, tongue, extremities or genitalia. This issue provides the very latest information on the diagnosis and treatment of angioedema.

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (February 21, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416043225
ISBN-13: 978-1416043225.

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This issue reviews inflammation, hemostasis, and blood conservation strategies in patients following surgery, trauma, or complex injuries, and focuses on coagulopathies due to multiple factors including hemorrhage, surgical injuries, or drugs that affect the hemostatic system. Hemostasis and therapeutic approaches for bleeding and medical patients are discussed, including important aspects of thrombin signaling, protease activated receptor involvement, platelet dysfunction, and clot stabilization.The increasing problem of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia as a prothrombotic disease is discussed. Different approaches to reduce bleeding and transfusion requirements in critically ill patients are included based on either preventing or reversing the defects associated with coagulopathies. Blood conservation and the risks of transfusions are reviewed, including an update on transfusion-related acute lung injury.  Pharmacologic approaches, an important aspect of blood conservation and are reviewed, including the recent New England Journal of Medicine controversy about aprotinin. Strategies involved in blood conservation in critically ill patients is included with focus on pharmacologic blood-sparing studies. Multiple pharmacologic approaches to reducing and treating bleeding are reviewed. Current and future pharmacologic approaches to attenuating hemostatic system activation, inflammation, and bleeding, and the potential need for allogeneic blood administration are important focuses of this issue.

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (April 4, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 141605863X
ISBN-13: 978-1416058632.

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Scleroderma is unique among our rheumatic diseases both in its clinical expression and its resistance to recovery when using our usual anti-inflammatory medications. The reason for this difference is now becoming apparent as the biology of the scleroderma process is better understood. It is now recognized that the disease expression is quite heterogeneous and that several different clinical but distinct phenotypes exists. This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics provides a concise update of developments in this area of study and covers topics such as vascular disease in scleroderma, diagnosis, management of the disease, genetics, novel treatments, scleroderma-like disorders, and its effect on the heart and lungs.

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Hardcover: 180 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (September 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416063439
ISBN-13: 978-1416063438.

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Hypertension is a major cause of kidney disease and kidney failure (end-stage renal disease). Hypertension can cause damage to the blood vessels and filters in the kidney, making removal of waste from the body difficult. This issue contains articles with practical advice about managing end-stage renal disease, patients who have undergone kidney transplant, and patients with hypertension.

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Hardcover: 928 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (November 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420067494
ISBN-13: 978-1420067491.

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Now for the first time, a new diagnosis and treatment guide with even more focus on the most commonly encountered disorders than ever before.  Hundreds of diseases and disorders are covered in this new succinct evidence-based guide to treatment and diagnosis in internal medicine.  Organized by body system, and focused on critical core topics, the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Concise Textbook is replete with summary tables, algorithms, summary points and more than 750 pearls that provide on-the-spot clinical knowledge.  Easy-access to current medications, indications and side-effects are included to save time and improve treatment outcomes.  In addition, special sections provide expert guidance on preparation for the USMLE Step 2 CK and USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills.

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Hardcover: 1202 pages
Publisher: ASM Press; 5 edition (November 30, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1555813801
ISBN-13: 978-1555813802.

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This major reference, now in its fifth edition, updates and advances the field of diagnostic medical parasitology and reports on the dramatic changes that have occurred in this field. It includes newly recognized parasites, updated information on immunology and pathogenesis, greatly expanded tables and photographs, a new section on medical case histories, among other exciting additions and updates. This work: offers a brand-new section containing medical case histories; features a greatly expanded section covering histological diagnosis; presents many new figures and summary tables; provides in one volume both comprehensive information about human parasitology and relevant diagnostic methods; and, includes a review of over 3,000 papers published since the release of the previous edition.

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Hardcover: 1592 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (May 12, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521871123
ISBN-13: 978-0521871129.

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This clinically-oriented, user-friendly text is the best on the market for infectious disease. Complete and comprehensive, Schlossberg’s text will be an effective reference for any practitioner who may encounter these afflictions. The orientation of the volume is multi-faceted: in addition to the traditional organization of organ system and pathogen-related information, this text includes specific sections on the susceptible host, travel-related infections, nosocomial infections, infections related to trauma, and bioterrorism. The information on post-surgical infections will be of great interest to practicing surgeons. Informative algorithms, tables, and high-quality color photographs supplement many of the chapters in this conveniently-sized volume. For practicality and ease of use, one can do no better than this guide to infectious disease.

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Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 3 edition (April 27, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470181796
ISBN-13: 978-0470181799.

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The preeminent book on cancer cytogenetics—now in a valuable new edition

Like its successful predecessors, Cancer Cytogenetics, Third Edition continues to offer authoritative coverage of neoplastic processes at the chromosomal level of genomic organization. Now updated and expanded, this new edition includes detailed information on the most recent advances in the field, incorporating a vast amount of new cytogenetic as well as molecular genetic data from the latest basic and clinical investigations.

Edited by two leading authorities, who are now aided by a panel of internationalexperts, this new edition has been updated to include:

• Greatly expanded coverage of solid tumors
• Enhanced coverage of acute and chronic myeloproliferative disorders
• The latest findings on acute and chronic lymphoproliferative disorders

Cancer Cytogenetics, Third Edition is a valuable resource for researchers in a wide range of fields, including cytogenetics, medical and molecular genetics, cellular and molecular biology, oncology, and hematology. With its complete coverage of thecytogenetic mechanisms underlying neoplasia, and always with a keen eye on the clinical consequences of the various acquired genetic aberrations, this text will alsobe an indispensable reference for all clinicians involved in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.

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