Cushing's Disease

An Often Misdiagnosed and Not So Rare Disorder

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Cushing's Disease: An Often Misdiagnosed and Not So Rare Disorder reviews the epidemiology of Cushing's, including statistics on the incidence and prevalence of this disease. There are discussions of the signs and symptoms and the most common co-morbidities, such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, amenorrhea, and infertility.

Surgical, medical, and radiotherapeutic treatments, including indications, results, risks, and complications, are reviewed. Also featured is a chapter on the patient's perspective, coping with Cushing's, quality of life, and psychosomatic issues.

This book is essential reading for the wide range of physicians who treat patients with Cushing's disease symptoms, as well as biomedical researchers who investigate the etiology and mechanisms of rare genetic diseases, in particular rare endocrine disorders.

Reviews the basics of Cushing's disease and its interrelation with hormones, the brain, and bodily functions
Includes chapters on diagnosis, surgical, medical, and radiotherapeutic treatments, and variations in presentation, including cyclical disease
Presents the cognitive and emotional aspects of Cushing's and the long-term sequelae
Offers an important resource for physicians who are accustomed to treating individual symptoms rather than a disease complex
Reviews multidisciplinary management, and post-treatment management of Cushing's, including recommendations for Cushing's Centers of Excellence

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-08
Mått:191 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780128043400

Utforska kategorier

Onkologi inom Medicin
Urologi inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Edward R. Laws is currently the Director of the Pituitary/Neuroendocrine Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly the President of the American College of Surgeons and has served as President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Editor of Neurosurgery, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for International Education in Neurosurgery, Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and President of the Pituitary Society. Founder and President, Cushing's Support and Research Foundation

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Pituitary Gland: Anatomy, Physiology, and its Function2. Epidemiology and Etiology of Cushing’s Disease3. Physical Presentation of Cushing’s Syndrome: Typical and Atypical Presentations4. The Cognitive, Psychological, and Emotional Presentation of Cushing’s Disease5. Making the Diagnosis: Laboratory Testing and Imaging Studies6. Surgical Treatment of Cushing’s Disease7. Medical Treatment of Cushing’s Disease8. Multidisciplinary Management of Cushing’s Disease: Centers of Excellence Approach9. Posttreatment Management of Cushing’s Disease10. Coping with Cushing’s Disease: the Patients’ Perspectives11. Cushing’s Disease in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis and Management12. Challenges and Future Developments for Improvement in the Diagnosis and Management of Cushing’s DiseaseAppendix. Patients’ Perspectives