Acute Endocrinology:: From Cause to Consequence / Edition 1

by Greet Van den Berghe

Overview

Until recently, endocrinology and critical care medicine were two specialties in medicine that were rather uncomfortable with each other and hence quite i- lated. Fortunately, these two ‘alien’ disciplines have joined forces in successful attempts to perform high quality research in order to clarify the unknown. By integrating endocrinology in critical care medicine, or vice-versa depending on the specialty of the observer, new experimental and clinical data on the complex endocrine and metabolic derangements accompanying non-endocrine severe i- nesses came available which generated important novel insights with relevant clinical implications. In addition, the state of the art diagnosis and management of primary endocrine diseases that represent life-threatening situations leading to ICU admission has been updated. This issue of Contemporary Endocrinology aims at compiling the new findings. The book indeed covers both areas of ‘Acute Endocrinology’ that are often taking care of at very distant sites within hospitals. The first part deals with the classical life-threatening illnesses caused by primary endocrine diseases such as thyrotoxicosis, hypothyroidism, acute adrenal crisis, acute calcium disorders, pheochromocytoma, severe hyper- and hypoglycemia . The second part looks at endocrinology from the ICU side, starting with a g- eral overview of the dynamic neuroendocrine and metabolic stress responses in the condition of intensive care-dependent, non-endocrine critical illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617378768
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Series:	Contemporary Endocrinology
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Endocrine Diseases Causing Potentially Life-Threatening Emergencies.- Thyrotoxicosis.- Myxedema Coma.- Acute Adrenal Crisis.- Acute Calcium Disorders.- Phaeochromocytoma and Other Diseases of the Sympathetic Nervous System.- Hyperglycemic Crises: Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State (HHS).- Hypoglycemia: An Endocrine Emergency.- Endocrine Disturbances Caused by Non-endocrine Critical Illnesses.- The Dynamic Neuroendocrine Response to Critical Illness.- Changes Within the GH/IGF-I/IGFBP Axis in Critical Illness.- Changes Within the Thyroid Axis During the Course of Critical Illness.- The Adrenal Response to Critical Illness.- Catecholamines and vasopressin during critical illness.- The Diabetes of Injury: Novel Insights and Clinical Implications.- Disorders of Body Water Homeostasis.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Renee Simon Aronsohn, MD (University of Chicago Hospitals)
Description: This book offers an overview of life-threatening endocrine disorders as well as alterations in the endocrine axes seen in nonendocrine critical illness.
Purpose: The purpose is to bridge what the editor believes is a discernable gap between the endocrinology and critical care medical subspecialties and thus foster interdisciplinary understanding. This is a worthy objective, although the sections covering primary, life-threatening endocrine disorders could benefit from a more practice-based approach.
Audience: The book appears targeted at those actively practicing or in-training in the endocrinology and critical care subspecialties. The authors include well known experts in the field.
Features: The chapters on endocrine diseases causing potentially life-threatening emergencies read almost like a pocket guide for physicians, providing a thorough yet succinct summary of disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, and treatment. The chapters on endocrine disturbances caused by nonendocrine critical illness focus mostly on pathophysiology and read more like a textbook. That said, the authors are able to communicate complex topics in a relatively easy to understand manner. Throughout the book, evidence-based medicine is highlighted with numerous references and citations. Multiple tables and figures also appear throughout the book, most of which are useful. However, the book could have included more treatment-oriented algorithms.
Assessment: This book does fill a gap in the field by focusing exclusively on endocrinology and acute illness. It reads somewhere between a pocket guide and a textbook, and is successful in providing a thorough yet succinct overview of the topics. I would recommend this book most highly to practicing endocrinologists and those in endocrine training, although critical care specialists would likely find it very informative as well.

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From the reviews:

"This book offers an overview of life-threatening endocrine disorders as well as alterations in the endocrine axes seen in nonendocrine critical illness. … targeted at those actively practicing or in-training in the endocrinology and critical care subspecialties. … This book does fill a gap in the field by focusing exclusively on endocrinology and acute illness. … I would recommend this book most highly to practicing endocrinologists and those in endocrine training, although critical care specialists would likely find it very informative as well." (Rene Simon Aronsohn, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2009)

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