Thyroid Disease in Adults

From the reviews:“The authors provide a clinical handbook that covers a wide range of thyroid diseases seen in everyday practice. … This book is targeted at general practitioners, internists, and other clinicians who manage patients with thyroid dysfunction. … The large number of color pictures, graphs, and pathology pictures make this book unique and easy to read. … There are several benefits to this book. … Readers are likely to find useful clinical pearls without much searching. … it serves well as a handbook and reference.” (Rebecca L. Brown, Doody’s Review Service, August, 2011)

• Anatomy and physiology.- Biochemical investigations.- Other investigations.- Clinical investigation of the thyroid.- Iodine and the thyroid gland in health and sickness.- Autoimmunity and the thyroid gland.- Growth regulation of the thyroid gland.- Thyroiditis, pathogenesis.- Causes of hypothyroidism.- Symptoms of hypothyroidism.- Threatment of hypothyroidism.- Subclinical hypothyroidism.- Myxoedema coma.- Causes of thyrotoxicosis.- Symptoms of thyrotoxicosis.- Treatment options in hyperthyroidism.- Graves’ disease.- Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.- Autonomous adenoma.- Toxic multinodular goitre.- Subclinical thyrotoxicosis.- Thyrotoxicosis in the elderly.- Thyrotoxic crisis/thyroid storm.- Thyroiditis – clinical aspects.- Subacute thyroiditis.- Other causes of thyrotoxicosis.- Non-toxic goiter.- Thyroid lumps.- Thyroid cancer.- The thyroid and pregnancy. Thyroid disease in adolescents.- Medicines and other medical preparations and the thyroid.- Thyroid hormone resistance.