Handbook of Fatigue in Health and Disease (Health Care Issues, Costs and Access)

Description:

Fatigue is the most common and frequent symptom that people experience, yet the field of medicine has not paid all that much attention to it until the past decade or so. One can appreciate the relative lack of “coverage” for fatigue if one contrasts the number of texts on pain to the number of texts on fatigue. Isolating a patient’s specific etiology of fatigue may be exceptionally difficult because of a multitude of contributing factors which may be involved. This book examines the physiologic/pathophysiologic mechanisms, assessment and treatments of fatigue. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical Press)

Table of Contents:

• Preface (Howard S. Smith)

1. Fatigue in health and disease
   (Howard S. Smith)pp.1-32
2. Fatigue and Cytokines
   (Christine Gallati)pp.33-50
3. Barriers to Fatigue Communication
   (Steven D. Passik, Kenneth L. Kirsh)pp.51-58
4. Evaluation Tools in Fatigue
   (Howard S. Smith)pp.59-78
5. Is There A Relationship Between Cancer-Related Cachexia and Fatigue?
   (Sheryl L. Ziegler, Jamie H Von Roenn)pp.79-100
6. Fatigue, Sleepiness and Sleep Disorders
   (Aaron E. Sher, Howard S. Weiss) pp.101-114
7. Fatigue in Heart Disease
   (Andrew L. Clark) pp.115-136
8. mFatigue and Chronic Renal Disease
   (George H. Eisele)pp.137-150
9. Fatigue and Depression
   (Lisa J Norelli, Saila K. Harju)pp.151-168
10. Managing Fatigue: Is there anything to do?
    (Susan B. Legrand pp.169-188

• Index pp.189-203

Authors:

Howard S. Smith (Albany Medical College, Albany, New York)