Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Concise Textbook

✍ Scribed by M. Habermann Thomas, Amit K. Ghosh

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 930
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now for the first time, a new diagnosis and treatment guide with even more focus on the most commonly encountered disorders than ever before. All major internal medicine 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, and summary points. Easy-access to tables of current medications, indications and side-effects saves time and improves treatment outcomes.  In addition, special sections provide expert guidance on preparation for the USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge and Clinical Skills examinations.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS......Page 6
DEDICATED TO......Page 7
FOREWORD......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 14
CHAPTER 1. Preparing for the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination Step 2......Page 16
CHAPTER 2. Allergy......Page 26
CHAPTER 3. Cardiology......Page 50
CHAPTER 4. Critical Care Medicine......Page 144
CHAPTER 5. Dermatology......Page 162
CHAPTER 6. Endocrinology......Page 186
CHAPTER 7. Gastroenterology and Hepatology......Page 232
CHAPTER 8. General Internal Medicine......Page 294
CHAPTER 9. Genetics......Page 320
CHAPTER 10. Geriatrics......Page 338
CHAPTER 11. Hematology......Page 362
CHAPTER 12. HIV Infection......Page 420
CHAPTER 13. Hypertension......Page 444
CHAPTER 14. Infectious Diseases......Page 480
CHAPTER 15. Medical Ethics......Page 564
CHAPTER 16. Men's Health......Page 574
CHAPTER 17. Nephrology......Page 584
CHAPTER 18. Neurology......Page 628
CHAPTER 19. Oncology......Page 676
CHAPTER 20. Preventive Medicine......Page 708
CHAPTER 21. Psychiatry......Page 722
CHAPTER 22. Pulmonary Diseases......Page 740
CHAPTER 23. Rheumatology......Page 818
CHAPTER 24. Vascular Diseases......Page 876
CHAPTER 25. Women's Health......Page 894
INDEX......Page 908