(Ebook) Endocrinology and Systemic Diseases by Piero Portincasa, Gema Frühbeck, Hendrik M. Nathoe ISBN 9783319687285, 9783319687292, 9783319687308, 331968728X, 3319687298, 3319687301

(Ebook) Endocrinology and Systemic Diseases by Piero Portincasa, Gema Frühbeck, Hendrik M. Nathoe ISBN 9783319687285, 9783319687292, 9783319687308, 331968728X, 3319687298, 3319687301

Endocrinology and Systemic Diseases combines common aspects of clinical endocrinologywith major topics of internal medicine and provides a comprehensiveoutlook of the complex and bi-directional relationship between hormonal homeostasisand a variety of organ dysfunctions.The editors are fully aware of the exponential expansion of knowledge inbiomedicine, which requires continuous multidisciplinary approaches across specialists,disciplines, health policies, and established evidence-based guidelines. Onthe other hand, the risk deriving from overspecialization could lead to the lack of anintegrative approach, increasing diagnosis mistakes and health costs.The daily need of individual practitioners is to address multiple, complex, andoften overlapping diagnoses, available diagnostic and therapeutic capacities,confounding subclinical manifestations, cross-links between dysfunctions in differentsystems, and integration of single cases with ongoing guidelines in a rapidlyevolving scientific knowledge.In this first edition, experts at the forefront of knowledge in their specific fieldsfocus on the multifactorial mechanisms linking endocrinological disorders andsystemic abnormalities, which include liver and gastrointestinal diseases; heart andcardiovascular diseases; kidney, autoimmune, neuroendocrine and rheumatic disorders;neurological and psychiatric manifestations; critically ill conditions; elderlypatients; and dermatological diseases. Because of close attention to the role ofenvironment on human health, a chapter also deals with the role of environmentalpollution in endocrine diseases.This first edition of Endocrinology and Systemic Diseases therefore intercepts therapid change of knowledge in endocrine aspects of clinical medicine and provides auseful tool to adequately manage the altered hormonal balance frequently linkedwith several clinical conditions.