Endocrine Emergencies: Recognition and Treatment

✍ Scribed by Lynn Loriaux M.D., Ph.D. (auth.), Lynn Loriaux (eds.)

Publisher: Humana Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 286
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology 74
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Endocrine Emergencies: Recognition and Treatment offers a state-of-the-art update on the management of endocrine, diabetic, and metabolic emergencies. Developed by renowned experts, this comprehensive and easy to read title brings the field fully up to date, setting a high standard for diagnosis and treatment in each category. All chapters begin with a summary that presents, in concentrated form, what the physician needs to know to begin the evaluation and emergency treatment of the known endocrine emergencies. This is followed by an extended discussion of the pathophysiology that can be read after initial treatment has begun. Covering such areas as hypoglycemia, acute adrenal insufficiency, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, thyroid storm, and pituitary apoplexy, just to name several, Endocrine Emergencies: Recognition and Treatment is aninvaluable, practical resource that will be ofgreat interest to endocrinologists, internal medicine and emergency room physicians, fellows and residents.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Acute Adrenal Insufficiency....Pages 1-14
Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Syndrome....Pages 15-31
Hypoglycemia....Pages 33-41
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections....Pages 43-48
Malignant (Necrotizing) Otitis Externa....Pages 49-55
Mucormycosis....Pages 57-63
Emphysematous Cholecystitis....Pages 65-69
Emphysematous Pyelonephritis....Pages 71-76
Thyrotoxic Crisis: Thyroid Storm....Pages 77-97
Myxedema Coma....Pages 99-108
Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis....Pages 109-113
Hyponatremia: SIADH....Pages 115-126
Diabetes Insipidus....Pages 127-138
Pheochromocytoma Hypertensive Crisis....Pages 139-147
Hypocalcemia....Pages 149-160
Hypercalcemia....Pages 161-174
Pituitary Apoplexy....Pages 175-211
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS)....Pages 213-226
Ambiguous Genitalia in the Newborn....Pages 227-239
Porphyrias: Acute Manifestations....Pages 241-261
Acute Pancreatitis due to Hyperchylomicronemia....Pages 263-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-287

✦ Subjects

Endocrinology; Internal Medicine; Cell Biology

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