Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Surgery - General

Compelling narrative of Norman Bethune, revolutionary doctor in Mao s China.

With case examples and step-by-step frameworks for intervention, the authors illustrate the challenges and solutions in establishing an effective ward-based psychotherapy service for renal dialysis and transplant patients. They describe clinical patterns of presentation and how psychotherapeutic intervention was refined over time in a clinically meaningful and evidence-based manner. Each chapter is focused on specific emotional disorders among renal patients.

The authors introduce the concept of loss of an imagined past' (aspirations and ambitions) never realized, or compromised, as a...

One chilly blue morning in May, a surgeon angled a six-inch cut along my side, then reached in and removed my healthy right kidney. Four hours later, he spliced that kidney into my partner Ana s thigh, and her death in reverse began.
A medical drama, a memoir, and a love story all in one, "Death in Reverse" chronicles Ruth Schwartz s life with her partner, Ana, during the tumultuous twelve months following transplant surgery. Four days after surgery, came a terrifying rejection episode and the high-tech medicine and guided visualization that turned it around. In the months that...

"General Principles of Tumor Immunotherapy: Basic and Clinical Applications of Tumor Immunology" brings together the world s leading authorities on tumor immunology. This book describes the basic immunology principles that form the foundation of understanding how the immune system recognizes and rejects tumor cells. The role of the innate and adaptive immune responses is discussed and the implications of these responses for the design of clinical strategies to combat cancer are illustrated through both experimental clinical trials and review of current standard of care therapeutic agents....

-new surgical approaches which are becoming the standard, i.e., nephon sparing, laporascopic, minimally invasive techniques;
-new staging and prognostic capabilities;
-evolving therapeutic options include, cell based vaccine, gene and antibody therapy;
-molecular genetics allow for a better understanding of the various types of kidney cancer.

The book draws together, in a single volume, the more recent perspectives of all the orthopaedic methods that can be applied in the diagnosis and treatment of the haemophilic joints from numerous specialists worldwide. It will be an invaluable resource for all those treating the articular problems in people with...