Author: J. Mossner
Publisher: S Karger Pub
Keywords: diseases, digestive, update, inflammatory, pancreatic
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2005-02-24
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 3805579004
ISBN-13: 9783805579001
This publication presents new and fascinating insights especially into the pathogenesis of both acute and chronic pancreatitis. It starts with a literature review and presentation of the authors’ own data on laboratory markers of acute pancreatitis such as trypsinogen, serum amyloid A and procalcitonin, paying special attention to their clinical usefulness and test performance for stratifying severity and monitoring disease progression. Also discussed is the still difficult differential diagnosis between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis, especially the early diagnosis of pancre
Author: Sunil K. Lal
Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Keywords: diseases, issues, infectious, asia, southeast, viral, emerging
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $172.00
ISBN-10: 3805581750
ISBN-13: 9783805581752
Southeast Asia has been the breeding ground for many emerging diseases in the past decade, e.g. the avian flu (H5N1) in Hong Kong in 1997, Nipah virus encephalitis in Malaysia in 1998, and, above all, the SARS outbreak in Southern China in 2002. Risk factors contributing to this situation include being economically disadvantaged, sub-standard health care, changes in ecosystems, poor farming practices, but also increasing global travel and tourism. Currently, H5N1 is considered one of the greatest dangers to humans due to its wide host range, rapid mutation rate and increasing virulence - a glo
Authors:Emile Mohler, Michael Jaff,
Publisher: American College of Physicians
Keywords: diseases, key, disease, arterial, peripheral
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2007-11-02
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1930513968
ISBN-13: 9781930513969
Here s a complete resource for general internists on one of the most under-diagnosed conditions in internal medicine, Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)! This new book is a concise and practical guide to the diagnosing and treatment methods of PAD. For quick reference, each chapter begins by listing the key questions that will be answered, and ends with a brief summary of what was discussed.
Authors:Susan Tarlo, Paul Cullinan, Benoit Nemery,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: diseases, outdoor, exposures, home, work, lung, occupational, environmental
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2010-11-15
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0470515945
ISBN-13: 9780470515945
Documents both environmental and work-related causes of lung disease Unlike other books on the subject, this new volume approaches occupational and environmental lung disease from the starting point of the patient who comes to the physician with respiratory symptoms. The authors recognize that potentially harmful exposures occur not only in the work environment, but also as a result of hobbies or other leisure activities, or from outdoor air pollution, and it is up the physician to identify whether a particular job or hobby is the cause of the patient’s respiratory symptoms. To help y
Authors:Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Paul-Henri Lambert,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: diseases, bench, field, advances, infectious, birkhã¤user, related, challenge, future, vaccines, poverty, grand
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2005-08-11
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3764371757
ISBN-13: 9783764371753
The most urgently needed vaccines are those against poverty-related diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV. However, there is a considerable gap between the development of a vaccine and the implementation as a useful measure for disease control. Major obstacles need to be overcome even after successful completion of the preclinical stage. This book provides an important link between vaccine development and application under the particular conditions in developing countries. The editors, S.H.E. Kaufmann and P.H. Lambert – one from the field of basic research and the other an expert o
Authors:Leslie C Grammer, Paul A Greenberger,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: allergic, diseases, management, amp, diagnosis, patterson
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0781794250
ISBN-13: 9780781794251
Revised and updated for its Seventh Edition, this highly acclaimed volume is a complete, current, and practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disorders. This comprehensive yet concise reference will remain the first choice for residents and practitioners who need guidance to identify an allergy, confirm a diagnosis, or find effective therapies. It will also be an excellent aid for board review. This edition includes discussions of clinical trials in asthma and significant updates on drug allergy, imaging, occupational allergy, and immune deficiency evaluation. A Companion We
Author: Peter J., Ph.D. Hotez
Publisher: ASM Press
Keywords: forgotten, diseases, development, health, global, tropical, people, neglected, impact
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2008-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1555814409
ISBN-13: 9781555814403
Some of the worst tropical diseases in the world have too long been ignored. Parasitic and bacterial diseases such as hookworm, snail fever, river blindness, guinea worm, elephantiasis, sleeping sickness, and leprosy are the most common infections of third-world populations. These neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent one of the most important reasons why populations living in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America remain caught in a vicious cycle of poverty, stigma, and despair. With a lifetime devoted to the subject of tropical diseases, the well-known expert Dr. Peter Hotez
