Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric: The Adrenal Gland

ISBN-13: 9780323240598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 281 str.

Ashley B. Grossman; J. Larry Jameson; Leslie J. De Groot

Opis

Give your patients the benefit of today's best adrenal endocrinology know-how with The Adrenal Gland, a new derivative book from the same expert endocrinologists responsible for the highly acclaimed two-volume textbook, Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric. Never before available as a stand-alone offering, this compilation of chapters from the leading resource in endocrinology covers all material related to the adrenal gland.

Spis treści

1. The Principles, Enzymes, and Pathways of Human Steroidogenesis
2. Glucocorticoid Action: Physiology
3. Glucocorticoid Receptors: Their Mechanisms of Action and Glucocorticoid Resistance
4. Aldosterone: Secretion and Action
5. Glucocorticoid Therapy
6. Adrenal Insufficiency
7. Adrenal Causes of Hypercortisolism
8. Defects of Adrenal Steroidogenesis
9. Adrenarche and Adrenopause
10. Adrenal Gland Imaging
11. Adrenocortical Carcinoma
12. Primary Mineralocorticoid Excess Syndromes and Hypertension
13. Mineralocorticoid Deficiency
14. Pheochromocytoma
15. Adrenal Surgery
16. Cushing's Syndrome