Authors:Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Ronald Asherson,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: diseases, autoimmune, systemic, handbook, volume, heart
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2004-02-03
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0444513981
ISBN-13: 9780444513984

This first volume represents the state-of-the-art in the field of cardiovascular disease and autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Systemic autoimmune diseases comprise a family of conditions that share common pathogenetic mechanisms as well as a multi-organ involvement including the heart. This volume has been subdivided into three parts. In the first part, the immune mechanisms involved in cardiac damage have been considered. The role of proinflammatory and regulatory cytokines in driving an autoimmune response to cardiac self-tissues has been analysed. Moreover, the prevalence, the clinical meanin

Authors:Rolando Cimaz, Thomas J.A. Lehman, Ronald Asherson,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: diseases, autoimmune, systemic, handbook, volume, pediatrics
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0444529713
ISBN-13: 9780444529718

Many of the systemic autoimmune diseases seen in children are different from those seen in adults making them a special problem for physicians and scientists who care for the affected children and study their diseases. Benefiting both pediatric and adult rheumatologists, as well as physicians from other specialties, this volume covers the latest advances in pathogenesis and clinical management of common conditions seen in pediatric rheumatology practices.

Authors:Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Ronald Asherson,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: diseases, systemic, autoimmune, handbook, volume, involvement, pulmonary
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0444516522
ISBN-13: 9780444516527

In this book is found the information essential to diagnosing, managing and treating the lung complications of connective tissue diseases. This is a notoriously difficult area, which continues to puzzle clinicians, despite the fact that these disorders are increasingly frequent (as a result of longer survival in connective tissue disease). In separate chapters, the major connective tissue diseases are reviewed, with detailed discussion of a variety of lung abnormalities, including pleural disease, parenchymal lung disease and pulmonary vascular disease. There are also invaluable overviews of l

Author: Robert W Schrier
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: diseases, kidney, medicine, schrier, foundations, tract, urinary, clinicopathologic
Number of Pages: 3776
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $499.00
ISBN-10: 0781793076
ISBN-13: 9780781793070

The thoroughly updated Eighth Edition of this classic three-volume work provides the most comprehensive, current, and authoritative information on diseases of the kidney and urinary tract. This clinically oriented reference focuses on diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases, disorders, and complications and incorporates the basic science practicing physicians need to evaluate and manage the disease process. Each of the fourteen sections is written by internationally renowned contributors and provides coverage comparable to a complete book. The first two sections review renal basic science

Authors:Stephen Flint, Stephen R. Porter, Kursheed F. Moos
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Keywords: oral, diseases, teeth, salivary, bones, joints, gingivae, glands, management, maxillofacial, illustrated, guide, diagnosis, mucosa
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2004-09-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1841843385
ISBN-13: 9781841843384

Authors:Sherwood L Gorbach, John G Bartlett, Neil R Bla
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: infectious, diseases, gorbach
Number of Pages: 2700
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $279.00
ISBN-10: 0781733715
ISBN-13: 9780781733717

Tufts Univ. School of Medicine, Boston, MA. Provides comprehensive guidelines on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of every infectious disease seen in current clinical practice. Discusses new information on hospital infections, bioterrorism, toxic shock syndrome, West NIle virus, hepatitis, and more. Previous edition: c1998. DNLM: Communicable Diseases.

Authors:Jay R Harris, Marc E Lippman, C. Kent Osborne,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: diseases, breast, harris
Number of Pages: 1200
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 0781791170
ISBN-13: 9780781791175

Completely revised and updated, and now in full color throughout, the Fourth Edition of this definitive reference is a must for all clinicians who treat breast diseases. Leading experts summarize the current knowledge of breast diseases, including their clinical features, management, underlying biologies, and epidemiologies. In addition to complete coverage of malignant breast diseases, benign diseases are discussed in relation to subsequent breast cancer development. The book reviews all major clinical trials and summarizes the information they provide on early detection and management of bre