Endocrinology of Critical Disease

1. Front Matter

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2. General Adaptation Syndrome

   • David J. Torpy, George P. Chrousos

   Pages 1-24

3. Developmental Considerations

   • C. Richard Parker Jr.

   Pages 25-44

4. Growth, Development, and Critical Disease

   • Pamela A. Clark, Alan D. Rogol

   Pages 45-66

5. Pituitary Response to Stress

   • Mark E. Molitch

   Pages 67-86

6. The Sympathoadrenomedullary Response to Critical Illness

   • Otto Kuchel

   Pages 87-122

7. The Adrenocortical Response to Critical Illness

   • Jay Watsky, Matthew C. Leinung

   Pages 123-136

8. Adrenocortical Response to Critical Illness

   • Paul I. Jagger

   Pages 137-154

9. Thyroid Response to Critical Illness

   • Jonathan S. LoPresti, John T. Nicoloff

   Pages 155-173

10. Pathophysiology of Water Metabolism During Critical Illness

    • Mary H. Parks, Joseph G. Verbalis

    Pages 175-196

11. Alterations in Fuel Metabolism in Critical Illness

    • Barry A. Mizoch

    Pages 197-210

12. Alterations in Fuel Metabolism in Critical Illness

    • K. Patrick Ober

    Pages 211-231

13. Critical Illness and Calcium Metabolism

    • Jack F. Tohme, John P. Bilezikian

    Pages 233-247

14. Skeletal Metabolism in Critical Illness

    • Steven R. Gambert, Stephen J. Peterson

    Pages 249-270

15. Testicular Function in Critical Illness

    • Stephen R. Plymate, Robert E. Jones

    Pages 271-283

16. The Female Gonadal Response to Critical Disease

    • Mark D. Nixon, Robert W. Rebar

    Pages 285-298

17. Effects of Aging on the Hormonal Response to Stress

    • Gary A. Wittert, John E. Morley

    Pages 299-309

18. Back Matter

    Pages 311-322

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Expert clinicians comprehensively review the endocrine and metabolic responses to critical illness, explore the mechanisms and outcomes (positive and negative) of those responses to severe stress, and consider possible endocrine interactions that are not yet fully defined. The contributors explain in detail the endocrine response to a multitude of critical illnesses, including cancer, liver failure, renal failure, trauma, burns, AIDS and other infections, starvation, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, and organ transplants. The book offers significant basic knowledge of high clinical relevance by collating and defining the numerous interactions of the endocrine system and critical disease states, by discussing the basic pathophysiological processes involved, and by reviewing the clinical relevance of such responses.

• Trauma
• aldosterone
• growth
• growth hormone
• hormone
• metabolism
• prolactin

• Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

  K. Patrick Ober

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