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- First-time discussion of the integration of endocrinology and critical care medicine
- Offers new experimental and clinical data on the complex endocrine and metabolic derangements accompanying non-endocrine severe illnesses
- Provides novel insights with relevant clinical implications
- Includes overview of state of the art diagnosis and management strategies for primary endocrine diseases that represent life-threatening situations leading to ICU admission
- Discusses the classical life-threatening illnesses caused by primary endocrine diseases such as thyrotoxicosis, hypothyroidism, acute adrenal crisis, acute calcium disorders, pheochromocytoma, severe hyper- and hypoglycemia
- Explores endocrinology from the ICU side, including a general overview of the dynamic neuroendocrine and metabolic stress responses in the condition of intensive care-dependent, non-endocrine critical illness
- Includes a chapter on salt and water disturbances that bridges both the endocrine and non-endocrine causes and their specific approaches
Part of the book series: Contemporary Endocrinology (COE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Endocrine Diseases Causing Potentially Life-Threatening Emergencies
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Front Matter
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Endocrine Disturbances Caused by Non-endocrine Critical Illnesses
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book offers an overview of life-threatening endocrine disorders as well as alterations in the endocrine axes seen in nonendocrine critical illness. … targeted at those actively practicing or in-training in the endocrinology and critical care subspecialties. … This book does fill a gap in the field by focusing exclusively on endocrinology and acute illness. … I would recommend this book most highly to practicing endocrinologists and those in endocrine training, although critical care specialists would likely find it very informative as well." (Rene Simon Aronsohn, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2009)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Greet Berghe
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acute Endocrinology:
Book Subtitle: From Cause to Consequence
Authors: Greet Berghe
Series Title: Contemporary Endocrinology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-177-6
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60327-176-9Published: 19 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-876-8Published: 09 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60327-177-6Published: 20 October 2008
Series ISSN: 2523-3785
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3793
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 316
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Endocrinology, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine