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This work provides a summary, review and commentary on the 200 most significant papers published on osteoporosis in the medical journals over the 12 months to January 2004.

Latest case study guide, covers system-based infections and special patient groups, for example: community acquired infection, the immunocompromised patient and those in critical care. Each clinical case includes learning points, background information, and recent developments. Suitable for infection specialists, clinical microbiologists.

The pronounced variability in the incidence and severity of chronic respiratory diseases makes effective treatment more difficult. Here, the authors attempt to evaluate the individual efficacy of treatments and present recommendations for formulating effective therapeutic regimes.

A pictorial guide to a spectrum of diseases and disorders of the respiratory tract in children. It covers the ear nose and throat, upper and lower airways, and focuses not only the many conditions that are commonly encountered, but also those that are rarer or more difficult to recognise and diagnose.

A practical book for clinicians setting out the options for effective management of chronic disease. It provides an evidence-based overview of therapy for allergy, showing how increased understanding translates into clinical practice. It sets out integrated prevention and management strategy for allergic disorders.

A guide to dyslipidaemias which assists cardiologists, and primary care physicians in their daily task of making an assessment of the patient and then formulating a management programme for various manifestations of this group of disorders.

Osteoporosis has been the subject of a rapid growth in research. This volume provides a collection of papers, reflecting the diversity of clinical and research specialties that are concerned with this disease. It covers four topics: epidemiology and pathophysiology, bone mass and measurement, management and prevention, and therapeutic issues.

Utilises diagnostic imaging, histopathological findings, schematic diagrams and other graphics to illustrate the symptom profiles, aetiology, and epidemiology of the more common dementias. This work presents comparisons of Alzheimer's and Lewy body disease, frontal temporal and vascular dementias and other dementing illnesses.

Highly illustrated and fully referenced review of latest developments. Original images for learning, referencing and teaching. Invaluable update for non-specialists: GPs, hospital doctors, doctors in training.

Comprehensive guide to parenchymal respiratory disease in children. Deascribes congenital disorders, disease in neonates, malignant, neuromuscular, interstitial diseases, scleroderma, granulatomas, mucopolsaccharidoses, sickle-cell disease, and rare neoplasm. Suitable for specialists in respiratory medicine, paediatricians, doctors in training.

Lipid disorders are among the primary risk factors in developing atherosclerosis and heart disease. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death world-wide in both genders. This book provides the inquiring physician with an insight into the research into lipid disorders, and the implications of this research for daily clinical practice.

Instructive exploration of diagnosis and management of disease to aid practising clinicians and trainee doctors. Essential reference for haematologists and oncologists.

Presents a review of literature regarding preoperative assessment of the patient, as well as throughout the surgical procedure, and in post-operative recovery, critical and high-dependency care and also in the arena of emergency medicine and pain management.

Presents an overview of the developments in asthma, COPD, relevant infections, sleep disorders and lung cancer along with reviews of pulmonary embolism and interstitial lung disease. Doctors will find that the selection of papers and commentary form a helpful update on their field within the bounds of one volume.

Covers various key topics such as viral infections, including discussion of emerging infections and HIV/AIDS, vaccines and antimicrobial agents, and the issue of antimicrobial resistance, and infection control in different patient groups, among them patients with nosocomial infection and the transplant patient.

Contains more than twenty cases that present complex and challenging choices for the pulmonary physician. After reviewing the background to the problem, this work presents solutions, beginning with the preferred option, offering additional perspectives, and taking alternative 'what-if scenarios that might stem from the initial intervention.

Since chest pain can indicate a number of conditions, besides unstable angina, it is important that the clinician can determine the true risk status of the patient. This book guides the reader through the assessment of the patient with chest pain, beginning with simple physical examination and concluding with coronary angiography.

The Year in Rheumatic Disorders provides a single authoritative resource that enables the busy clinician to keep up to date. Compiled by a distinguished team from the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, this book covers each of the major rheumatic disorders in a separate chapter. Each chapter begins with an introduction setting the scene, followed by an analysis of the past twelve months' peer-reviewed literature, discussing the most important papers ind...

Suitable for physicians who routinely see patients with cardiovascular complications, this book on effective therapeutic management features over 40 clinical presentations. It also features pictorial emphasis with electrocardiograms, angiograms and algorithms.

Presenting a new approach to therapeutic decision-making and providing answers to questions that busy clinicians face on a daily basis. In a carefully chosen series of discussions, the contributors, internationally recognised authorities in their fields, offer their own recommendations for managing challenging problems in treating diabetes.