Acute Endocrinology. From Cause to Consequence (Contemporary Endocrinology)

Description

• First-time discussion of the integration of endocrinology and critical care medicine
• Offers new experimental and clinical data on the complex endocrine and metabolic derangements accompanying non-endocrine severe illnesses
• Provides novel insights with relevant clinical implications
• Includes overview of state-of-the-art diagnosis and management strategies for primary endocrine diseases that represent life-threatening situations leading to ICU admission
• Discusses the classical life-threatening illnesses caused by primary endocrine diseases
• Explores endocrinology from the ICU side
• Includes a chapter on salt and water disturbances that bridges both the endocrine and non-endocrine causes and their specific approaches

The integration of endocrinology in critical care medicine has led to new experimental and clinical data on the complex endocrine and metabolic derangements accompanying non-endocrine severe illnesses. The joining of these two disciplines has generated important novel insights with significant clinical implications. Acute Endocrinology: From Cause to Consequence compiles these new findings into an important and highly relevant new resource. Part one 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. Part two looks at endocrinology from the ICU side, starting with a general overview of the dynamic neuroendocrine and metabolic stress responses in the condition of intensive care-dependent, non-endocrine critical illness. Acute Endocrinology: From Cause to Consequence provides a unique and up-to-date overview of the joining of these two disciplines and seeks to stimulate further interdisciplinary research in this important and exciting field.

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)

Table of Contents

Part 1 : Endocrine diseases causing potentially life-threatening emergencies

• 1. Thyrotoxicosis – Powlimi J. Nadkarni, MD, Kenneth D. Burman, MD, PhD
• 2. Myxedema coma – Suzanne Myers Adler, MD, Leonard Wartofsky, MD, PhD
• 3. Acute adrenal crisis – Paul Lee, MD,Ken K. Y. Ho, MD, PhD
• 4. Acute calcium disorders – Sophie J. Van Cromphaut, MD, PhD, Roger Bouillon, MD, PhD
• 5. Pheochromocytoma and other diseases of the sympathetic nervous system – Umasuthan Srirangalingam, MD
• 6. Hyperglycemic crises : Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperglycemic, hyperosmolar state (HHS) – Abbas E. Kitabchi, MD, PhD, Joseph N. Fisher, MD
• 7. Hypoglycemia : an endocrine emergency – Jean-Marc Guettier, MD, Phillip Gordon, MD

Part 2 : Endocrine disturbances caused by non-endocrine critical illnesses

• 8. The dynamic neuroendocrine response to critical illness – Lies Langouche, PhD, Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD
• 9 Changes within the GH/IGF-I/GFBP axis in critical illness – Dieter Mesotten, MD, PhD, Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD
• 10. Changes within the thyroid axis during the course of critical illness – Liese Mebis, MSc, Lies Langouche, PhD, Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD
• 11. The adrenal response to critical illness – Mikael Alves, MD, Xavi Borrat, MD, Djillali Annane, MD, PhD
• 12. Catecholamines and vasopressin during critical illness – Pierre Asfar, MD, PhD, Peter Radermacher, MD, PhD, Enrico Calzia, MD, PhD
• 13. The diabetes of injury: novel insights and clinical implications - Ilse Vanhorebeek, PhD, Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD
• 14. Disorders of body water homeostasis – Suzanne Myers Adler, MD, Joseph Verbalis, MD, PhD