Thyroid Disease in Adults

✍ Scribed by Ernst Nyström, Gertrud E. B. Berg, Svante K. G. Jansson, Ove Tørring, Stig V. Valdemarsson (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive guide to the assessment and management of adults with thyroid disorders in daily clinical practice. All important aspects and disorders are considered. Relevant information on basic anatomy, embryology, immunology, and physiology is included to provide a better basis for understanding the development of disease and its diagnosis and treatment. Careful attention is given to the important but easily overlooked role of iodine in physiology and thyroid diseases. Currently available biochemical tests and other specific diagnostic tools are also considered in detail. The various common thyroid disorders are then discussed in a series of individual chapters that focus on etiology, pathophysiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Numerous high-quality illustrations and concise fact boxes are included. The authors are all experts with wide experience in three disciplines and a long-standing interest in thyroid disease. The book’s unique “hands-on” perspective will make it invaluable for all professionals who deal with thyroid patients.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Historical Background....Pages 1-4
Anatomy and Physiology....Pages 5-27
Biochemical Investigations....Pages 29-45
Other Investigations....Pages 47-65
Clinical Investigation of the Thyroid....Pages 67-70
Iodine and the Thyroid Gland in Health and Sickness....Pages 71-77
Autoimmunity and the Thyroid Gland....Pages 79-90
Growth Regulation of the Thyroid Gland....Pages 91-95
Thyroiditis and Pathogenesis....Pages 97-106
Causes of Hypothyroidism....Pages 107-110
Symptoms of Hypothyroidism....Pages 111-117
Treatment of Hypothyroidism....Pages 119-126
Subclinical Hypothyroidism....Pages 127-129
Myxoedema Coma....Pages 131-134
Causes of Thyrotoxicosis – an Overview....Pages 135-137
Symptoms of Thyrotoxicosis....Pages 139-143
Hyperthyroidism Treatment Options – an Overview....Pages 145-154
Graves’ Disease....Pages 155-166
Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy....Pages 167-180
Autonomous Adenoma....Pages 181-185
Toxic Multinodular Goitre....Pages 187-193
Subclinical (Mild) Thyrotoxicosis....Pages 195-198
Thyrotoxicosis in the Elderly....Pages 199-200
Thyrotoxic Crisis/Thyroid Storm....Pages 201-204
Thyroiditis – Clinical Aspects....Pages 205-209
Subacute Thyroiditis (de Quervain´s Disease/Giant-Cell Thyroiditis)....Pages 211-214
Other Causes of Thyrotoxicosis....Pages 215-219
Nontoxic Goitre....Pages 221-228
Thyroid Lumps....Pages 229-234
Thyroid Cancer....Pages 235-250
The Thyroid and Pregnancy....Pages 251-265
Thyroid Disease in Adolescents....Pages 267-272
Medicines and Other Medical Preparations....Pages 273-280
Thyroid Hormone Resistance....Pages 281-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-292

✦ Subjects

General Practice / Family Medicine; Internal Medicine; Endocrinology; Nuclear Medicine; Oncology; Obstetrics/Perinatology