Cecil Textbook of Medicine

by Goldman, Lee

• ISBN13: 9780721679952
• ISBN10: 0721679951
• Edition: 21st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

The latest version of this superb resource delivers a fully integrated approach to the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of virtually every medical condition. Renowned authorities have meticulously revised this classic text to insure it reflects the current state of the field. The 21st Edition is concise, complete, highly readable, well illustrated-and a must for every successful practitioner. "The granddaddy of general internal medicine texts...Solidly written and effectively illustrated...and a comprehensive resource on diseases of adults." (JAMA, rev. of last ed.)

Table of Contents

Approach to Medicine, the Patient and the Medical Profession: Medicine as a Learned and Humane Profession

Bioethics in the Practice of Medicine

Care of Dying Patients and Their Families

Cultural Context of Medicine

Socioeconomic Issues in Medicine

Approach to the Patient: History and Physical Examination

Approach to the Patient with Abnormal Vital Signs

Statistical Interpretation of Data

Using Data for Clinical Decisions

Principles of Outcome Assessment

Patient Safety and Quality of Care

Principles of Preventive Health Care

The Periodic Health Examination

Physical Activity 15 Violence and Injury

Immunization

Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Radiation Injury

Bioterrorism

Chronic Poisoning: Trace Metals and Others

Epidemiology of Aging: Implications of the Aging of Society

Biology of Aging

Common Clinical Sequelae of Aging

Urinary Incontinence

Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Aging

Delirium and Other Mental Status Problems in the Older Patient

Principles of Drug Therapy

Pain

Biology of Addiction

Tobacco

Alcohol Abuse and Dependence

Drug Abuse and Dependence

Immunosuppressing Drugs Including Glucocorticoids

Prostaglandins, Aspirin, and Related Compounds

Antithrombotic Therapy

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Principles of Genetics: Overview of the Paradigm of Genetic Contribution to Health and Disease

Genetic Risk Assessment

Single Gene and Chromosomal Disorders

The Inherited Basis of Common Diseases

Gene and Cell Therapy

The Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems

The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Disease Susceptibility

Mechanisms of Immune-Mediated Tissue Injury

Mechanisms of Inflammation and Tissue Repair

Transplant Immunology

Complement in Health and Disease

Approach to the Patient with Possible Cardiovascular Disease

Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiac Function and Circulatory Control

Radiology of the Heart

Electrocardiography

Echocardiography

Nuclear Cardiology and Computed Tomography

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Catheterization and Angiography

Heart Failure: Pathophysiology and Diagnosis

Heart Failure: Management and Prognosis

Diseases of the Endocardium and Myocardium

Principles of Electrophysiology

Approach to the Patient with Suspected Arrhythmia

Approach to Cardiac Arrest and Life-Threatening Arrhythmias

Cardiac Arrhythmias with Supraventricular Origin

Ventricular Arrhythmias and Approach to the Survivor of Cardiac Arrest

Electrophysiologic Interventional Procedures and Surgery

Arterial Hypertension

Pulmonary Hypertension

Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Angina Pectoris

Acute Coronary Syndrome: Unstable Angina and Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

ST-Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction and Complications of Myocardial Infarction

Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

Valvular Heart Disease

Infective Endocarditis

Pericardial Disease

Diseases of the Aorta

Atherosclerotic Peripheral Arterial Disease

Other Peripheral Arterial Diseases

Peripheral Venous Disease

Cardiac Transplantation

Approach to the Patient with Respiratory Disease

Imaging in Pulmonary Disease

Respiratory Structure and Function

Disorders of Ventilatory Control

Asthma

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Cystic Fibrosis

Bronchiectasis and Localized Airway/Parenchymal Disorders

Alveolar Filling Disorders

Interstitial Lung Disease

Occupational Pulmonary Disorders

Physical

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