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Endocrine Emergencies

English | 2021 | ISBN: 032376097X | 369 pages | True (pdf, epub) | 16.46 MB

Endocrine emergencies are often potentially life-threatening and can be easily overlooked in patients with no history of endocrine disease. Endocrine Emergencies is a practical guide to identification and treatment for today’s clinicians, offering essential coverage of common and serious emergencies related to endocrine metabolic conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands.

• Guides clinicians on how to recognize, diagnose, and treat each condition using up-to-date diagnostic techniques and therapeutics. 
• Provides full-color, state-of-the-art coverage of key topics such as acute thyrotoxicosis and thyroid storm, ocular emergencies in Graves’ ophthalmopathy, diabetic ketoacidosis, hypopituitarism, postoperative thyroid surgical emergencies, pheochromocytoma, and much more. 
• Features separate chapters on emergencies related to neuroendocrine tumors, pregnant patients, and pediatric patients. 
• Includes sections on emergency overview, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in each chapter.