Acute endocrinology; from cause to consequence.

9781603271769

Acute endocrinology; from cause to consequence.

Ed. by Greet Van Den Berghe.

Humana Press Inc.

2008

316 pages

$119.00

Hardcover

RC648

Clinical endocrinology has fully made the transition to critical care medicine, leading to new data on complex endocrine and metabolic disorders accompanying severe illnesses that are not otherwise related. These 14 articles describe endocrine diseases causing potentially life threatening emergencies, covering such topics as thyrotoxicosis, myxedema coma, acute adrenal crisis, acute calcium disorders, diseases of the sympathetic nervous system, hyperglycemic crises. Looking at endocrinology from the perspective of the intensive care unit, articles also cover endocrine disturbances caused by non-endocrine critical illnesses including neuroendocrine response, change within growth hormone and related axes in critical illness, are changes within the thyroid axis, adrenal response to critical illness, catecholamines and vasopressin, novel insights into the diabetes of injury, and disorders of body water homeostasis. This should stimulate even more interdisciplinary research in this dynamic field.

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