Streamlines Detection and Diagnosis of Thoracic Disorders! Diagnostic Thoracic Imaging provides a heavily illustrated resource for Radiologists and residents pursuing the most up to date information in current chest radiology.
Diagnostic Thoracic Imaging illustrates how to apply a highly practical pattern-recognition approach to the rapid detection and diagnosis of chest pathology. This approach trains the reader in the practical systematic evaluation of thoracic disease while providing an indispensable reference for on-the-job problem solving.
Diagnostic Thoracic Imaging is the single most comprehensive visual compilation available for thoracic diagnosis, with: More than 2000 multi-modality illustrations Coverage of focal lung diseases…diffuse lung diseases…mediastinal masses…hilar abnormalities…pleural abnormalities A pattern approach to benefit the user in retaining presented informationSummary: A great resourceRating: 5This is a great book for anyone interested in chest radiology or pulmonary diagnostic challenges. Dr. Miller has chosen excellent cases to illustrate a broad range of chest pathology. Moreover, the book is pitched toward to clinician. I read the book cover to cover in preparation for the pulmonary boards and enjoyed it throughout. Dr. Miller should be commended for producing such an informative and accessible chest radiology text.Summary: The best book for Chest RadiologyRating: 5This is absolutely the best book for chest radiology. The size is a little intimdating at first, but it reads quickly and is filled with incredibly useful descriptions and differential diagnoses. It is straight-forward, and makes learning Chest Radiology a lot easier. I wish they had books like this for all sections of radiology. This book is ideal for residents and fellows, or really ambitious med students. Summary: pulmonary fellowRating: 5The book is fantastic. It is well laid out in a logical and easy to follow fashion. The format focusses on differential diagnoses to radiological patterns - i.e. a practical clinical approach. The images are clear and all relate to clinical cases. I would go as far as to say that this is a "must-have" for any pulmonary fellow in training - there are few books which are as high yield as this one. Could not have asked for a better investment.Summary: Great bookRating: 4This is a great book not only for radiologists but for all specialists who deal with thoracic diseases: respirologists, thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons and intensivists.
This multi-contributed text, co-ordinated by one of the leading authorities in the field, is a unique resource to cover in depth the management of the important issue of Nosocomial Pneumonia in respiratory medicine and critical care. This disease presents the clinician with a variety of challenges, in both diagnosis and management, all of which represent a significant concern for the welfare of patients whose ability to combat infection is frequently already compromised.
Nosocomial Pneumonia: Strategies for Management is dedicated specifically to this most common hospital acquired respiratory infection and reviews important new advances in therapeutics, including drug resistance. It is an essential resource for all postgraduates and specialist physicians in pulmonology and infectious diseases.
This unique new text delivers practical guidelines on diagnosing and treating patients with asthma. Drs. Castro and Kraft are extensively involved in asthma research and improved patient care, and their comprehensive coverage of key challenges in diagnosing and treating asthma makes this a must have resource. The organized full-color format ensures readability, and helps you find information quickly and easily. And as an Expert Consult title, it enables you to conveniently search the entire contents of the text online and download all of the book's images, tables, charts, and algorithms for your personal use, as well as sample treatment plans and patient education handouts - all from any practice location with an Internet connection.
Offers up-to-date protocols and management guidelines to help you provide the best care for your patients. Presents chapters on special situations and special populations to help you overcome clinical challenges such as the difficult-to-control or pregnant asthma patient. Provides specialized sections on asthma education to give guidance on leading your patients to better self management by improving their adherence to treatment guidelines. Highlights material found on the Asthma Educator Certification exam in special "education" boxes. Offers expert guidance on translating the new NIH EPR-3 Asthma Guidelines to hands-on patient care. Organized in a consistent chapter format that provides concise, logical coverage of essential information for easy reference. Contains special boxes that highlight clinical pearls, controversial issues, and patient education information. Uses a full-color format that makes it easy to find information quickly. Includes a website that contains all the images and tables from the book for your use in electronic presentations, plus sample treatment plans and patient education handouts to facilitate patient care.
This text aids practitioners who seek to diagnose, treat and manage patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) more effectively. It discusses pulmonary gas exchange, muscle function and breathing, water/electrolyte imbalances and end-stage disease.
Authoritative and highly illustrated in full color, this comprehensive resource is the result of a joint effort of four experienced senior clinicians and educators. It focuses on the medical aspects of transplantation, offers an oasis of knowledge on key topics for clinical practice and examination, and discusses the newest developments in the field, including NASH and chronic viral hepatitis.
* Covers all aspects of medical transplantation. * Features expert guidance and clinical coverage in one convenient volume. * Uses full-color art work, clinical photographs, and time-saving tables for easy retrieval of information. * Emphasizes key topics for clinical practice and certifying examinations. * Incorporates the most recent advances in Hepatology, including NASH and chronic viral hepatitis.
Acute and chronic hepatitis and hepatitis-related diseases such as liver failure, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are among the most important causes for disabilities and death. Hepatocellular injury is due to a variety of agents including viruses, toxins, radiation, injury and drugs but also bacteria, parasites and autoimmune reactions.
This volume reviews today’s knowledge about hepatitis with emphasis on comparative aspects between hepatitis in humans and animals, but also between different etiological agents. This particular viewpoint makes the book relevant for scientists from both human and veterinary medicine, gastroenterologists, pathologists, virologists and students of human and veterinary medicine.
Diseases of the Liver, Pancreas and biliary system affect a substantial proportion of the worlds population and involve doctors and health care workers across many disciplines. Many of these diseases produce great misery and distress and are economically important requiring much time off work. The aim of this series was to provide an overview of these diseases and enable the busy clinician to keep abreast of advances in diagnosis and management of not only the common but also the rarer, but none the less important, conditions.
This text is a complete and practical guide to performing virtual colonoscopy examinations and interpreting the results. The book provides precise instructions on how to prepare the patient and specific protocols for the various CT scanners currently in use. Detailed chapters on interpretation demonstrate normal anatomy, anatomic variants, CT appearances of polyps and cancer, and pitfalls of interpretation on two-dimensional and three-dimensional views. Additional chapters cover extracolonic findings, reporting, and fecal and fluid tagging. More than 700 illustrations show examination techniques and normal and pathologic findings. A companion Website will offer teaching cases to further refine the reader's interpretive skills.
This book aims to provide information on the application of microskin grafting to repigmentation of vitiligo, effectively economising the procedure and offering a quick surgical practice. The procedure will be illustrated in an extensive selection of images to offer the physician a thorough education in the technique so they may carry out the process safely, efficiently and with confidence. This atlas will focus on the surgical procedure, but special attention will also be given to regional anesthesia techniques which will also work as postoperative analgesia for the donor site discomfort and burning.
Undergraduate medical education has moved away from the former didactic style of teaching to one of problem-based learning. The specialty of Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) that includes sexually transmissible infections (STIs) lends itself to the latter; self-directed learning. This is particularly important as time allocated to the specialty in most medical curricula is short, and the student cannot possibly cover all the topics with which he/she is expected to be familiar. Several excellent textbooks on GUM exist, but they mostly follow the traditional format, with emphasis on individual diseases rather than case-scenarios. The books that follow a more syndromic approach do not pose questions to help the student understand how the material presented can be translated into clinical practice. As specialist clinics become more hard-pressed, family medicine practitioners are thus becoming increasingly involved in the management of STIs and there is without doubt now a need for a book specifically designed for problem solving in STI management.
