Editors:
- Maximizes readers’ knowledge of the efficacy and safety of medicines for children and adolescents as an important health topic
- Enriches the understanding of pediatric pharmacotherapy for health professionals, regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies and learned societies
- Summarizes the latest investigations on the effects of pharmacological treatments in relation to and dependent on age, gender, fat mass and health status
Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (HEP, volume 261)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This volume provides readers with the most updated scientific information on the efficacy and safety of medicines for children and adolescents. The book enriches the understanding of pediatric pharmacotherapy for health professionals, regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies and learned societies. It contains important information on the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of drugs. It summarizes the latest investigations on the effects of pharmacological treatments in relation to and dependent on age, gender, fat mass and disease status. Therefore and importantly, this volume reviews the latest data on how pharmacotherapy has to be adjusted and personalized in regards to stages of development and during the pediatric lifespan from neonate through adolescence. In addition, the topic of rare diseases and special challenges for pharmacotherapy will be included and will provide readers with the necessary knowledge to handle complex diseases and treatment strategies especially in relation to pharmacotherapy of rare and orphan diseases.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hospital for Children and Adolescents Center of Paediatric Research Department of Women and Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Wieland Kiess
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Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Tüebingen, Tüebingen, Germany, Robert Bosch Gesellschaft fuer medizinische Forschung mbH, Stuttgart, Germany
Matthias Schwab
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Children’s Hospital, University of Basel Children’s Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Johannes van den Anker
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pediatric Pharmacotherapy
Editors: Wieland Kiess, Matthias Schwab, Johannes van den Anker
Series Title: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50494-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50493-9Published: 16 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50496-0Published: 16 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50494-6Published: 15 July 2020
Series ISSN: 0171-2004
Series E-ISSN: 1865-0325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 538
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Pediatrics