This practical guide is designed to provide a complete echocardiography consultation in an easy, fast, and succinct manner. You will find essential information for a range of commonly encountered pathologies. Discussions of each echo technique (M-mode, 2-D, Doppler TTE, and TEE) include best imaging planes, diagnostic methods, diagnostic formulas, key diagnostic features, data on accuracy and prognosis, and alerts to potential pitfalls. In The Ultimate Echo Guide you'll discover... . Concise, straightforward text with bullet points allows you to access key information at a glance--a great time-saver for the busy clinician. . Specific applications address the use of echo in the pregnant patient, echo parameters of poor prognosis, echo parameters indicating surgical and non-surgical intervention, intraoperative echo, and follow-up. . Informative tables provide summary information for diagnostic methods, diagnostic accuracy, disease stratification, prognostic indicators, parameters indicating surgical or non-surgical intervention, and follow-up. . Practical content concentrating on information needed for daily or routine echocardiographic performance and interpretation. . More than 260 oversized high-resolution illustrations display the anatomy at actual size to enhance diagnostic features. The Ultimate Echo Guide is also available electronically for PDAs. See PDA listing for details.
Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology: Volume 2: Clinical Toxicology
(Experientia Supplementum)
By Andreas Luch
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Number Of Pages: 619
Publication Date: 2010-01-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764383372
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764383374
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Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology offers a comprehensive and in-depth response to the increasing importance and abundance of chemicals during daily life all over the world. About 29 million different organic and inorganic compounds are currently listed in the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) database and there are additions almost every day. The present volumes have been written for students and professionals in medicine, science, public health or engineering who are demanding reliable information and knowledge on toxic or potentially harmful agents and their effects in the human body. Since increasing numbers of patients claim for creeping "environmental intoxication" as the cause of their health problems, today more than ever physicians and health care providers require current information on both acute toxic compounds and less potent xenobiotics present in our environment. Moreover, multi-disciplinary exchange between physicians, environmental scientists and molecular biologists becomes a necessary component of many toxicological assessments. It is the goal of the present volumes to address this need and to be a place for all different kinds of users to come to answers. By providing intriguing insights far down to the molecular level, the text covers all aspects of modern toxicology with special emphasis on recent developments and achievements. The second volume, entitled "Clinical Toxicology", is aimed at providing an overview on the sources, kinds of uptake (poisoning, envenomation, intoxication) and means of clinical management and treatment in the case of biogenic toxins, household chemicals, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse, and chemical and biological warfare agents. The main theme driving the decision of the editor to present this work to the scientific community can be summarized in simply a few words: For the unity and future of Toxicology!
Pediatric Manual Medicine: An Osteopathic Approach
By Jane Elizabeth Carreiro DO
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Number Of Pages: 380
Publication Date: 2009-03-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0443103089
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780443103087
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Whilst Carreiro's other title, An Osteopathic Approach to Children, covers the theory on pediatric medicine from an osteopathic perspective exploring conditions and diseases of childhood, and the rational for osteopathic treatment, this new book deals with the practical methods to treating children and infants with osteopathic techniques. She includes background on NMT for children and infants. The text refers to all areas including fascias, ligaments, muscles and bones covering all techniques with regard to osteopathic treatment, including techniques such as BLT, a ligamentous technique, counterstrain using muscles, myofascial trigger points,myofascial realease, myofascial unwinding, etc.
Covers practical methods to treating children and infants with osteopatic techniques.
Includes NMT for children and infants.
Comprehensive, referring to all areas, including the fascia.
Elaborately illustrated with many drawings and photographs.
Includes dissections showing anatomical changes during growth.
Treatment covers different age groups.
The perfect companion to Carreiro's first book: An Osteopathic Approach to Children.
Best Practice in Labour and Delivery
(Cambridge Medicine)
By Richard Warren, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 374
Publication Date: 2009-10-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521720680
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521720687
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An understanding of when and how to intervene is the key to good obstetric care. This textbook is an encompassing reference covering all the essential information relating to childbirth; it offers clear practical guidance on all aspects of labour and delivery. Written by well-known leading experts, each chapter offers a modern authoritative review of best practice. The evidence base decribed will help to optimize outcome through appropriate clinical management and justifiable intervention. Whilst this is an ideal textbook for those training and taking examinations in labour ward practice, it offers all those caring for the woman in labour a modern, evidence-based approach which will help them understand, recognize and deliver the best possible clinical care. The importance of team working, prioritizing, and the organization of maternity care receive appropriate emphasis with clear guidance and practical advice.
Symptom Localization in the Spine and in the Extremity Joints
By Olaf Evjenth, Christian Gloeck
Publisher: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products
Number Of Pages: 40
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 097864929X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780978649296
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Symptom Loacalization in the Spine and the Extremity Joints by Evjenth and Gloeck is a unique testing guide for localizing the origins of symptoms in the local-motor system. This booklet provides a method to specifically localize the source of the symptoms through the use of special tests. It can be used for those beginning manual therapy as well as experienced practitioners. Illustrated Booklet.
Cardiovascular MRI in Congenital Heart Disease: An Imaging Atlas
By Shankar Sridharan, Gemma Price, Oliver Tann, Marina Hughes, Vivek Muthurangu, Andrew M. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: 2010-02-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540698361
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540698364
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The interpretation of MR images of congenital heart disease can be difficult without previous experience or formal training. This book provides insight into specific, pathologic conditions along with key MR and CT images depicting the pathology with a clear interpretation. Each image is detailed and clearly labeled with a central key for the specific condition, allowing the reader to track anatomical structures through the separate imaging planes. A concise yet clear interpretation of each image is given to aid learning. The imaging planes and protocols used to obtain the images are presented, allowing the user to plan future MR studies of patients with similar conditions.
Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders
By Vikas R. Dharnidharka, Michael Green, Steven A. Webber
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 190
Publication Date: 2009-12-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3642016529
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783642016523
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of conditions that straddle the borders between infection and malignancy. They were very rare prior to the mid-1980s but now can be expected to develop in 1-10% of transplant recipients. While some cases are reversible with reduction in immunosuppression, more severe forms are indistinguishable from frank lymphomas.
This book sets out to cover in depth every aspect of these disorders, including both basic science and clinical topics. The epidemiology is reviewed, and careful attention is paid to the role of Epstein-Barr virus in their development. Clinical features are documented and clear guidance is provided on diagnosis, with thorough de@@@@@@ion of pathologic and imaging findings. Further chapters are devoted to treatment, prognosis, preventive and pre-emptive strategies, and organ-specific considerations.
The state-of-the-art information contained in this bookwill aid researchers as well as the many different professionals involved in caring for patients with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders. The comprehensive and detailed coverage will appeal to those who already have some expertise in the field, yet the book will also serve as an invaluable resourcefor beginners in transplantation.
The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging
By Jose Luis Zamorano, Jeroen J. Bax, Frank E. Rademakers, Juhani Knuuti
Number Of Pages: 568
Publication Date: 2009-12-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1848824203
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781848824201
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"The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging" is a comprehensive guide to all forms of cardiovascular imaging. A disease based approach is followed and the book is comprised of 8 sections. Section 1 describes the imaging techniques available and Sections 2-8 describe the imaging modalities used to visualise cardiovascular diseases in seven main areas. Each section is subdivided into 2-7 chapters. The book is edited by four European opinion leaders in the fields of echocardiography, nuclear, CMR and CT imaging and has over 50 contributors, mainly from Europe.
The printed version is complemented by a basic online version, accessible by means of a password, distributed with the book. The online version allows users to: download chapters for ease of use; provide links from all references to PubMed; allow searching of the text; and download figures and images for non-commercial use in PowerPoint presentations.
Smolin and Thoft's The Cornea: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Practice, 4th Edition
By C. Stephen Foster, Dimitri T Azar, Claes H Dohlman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 1000
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0781742064
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780781742061
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Smolin and Thoft's The Cornea is often praised as the best available source of information on corneal and external diseases. This new edition, with its greatly expanded color atlas section, continues to provide guidance on diagnosing and managing problems associated with the cornea. It is now fully updated and contains additional information on corneal surgery, refractive surgery, and stem cell grafting, and a new chapter on optical and therapeutic contact lenses. "Doody's Core Titles 2009."
Aortic Root Surgery: The Biological Solution
By Abraham Charles Yankah, Yu-Guo Weng, Roland Hetzer
Publisher: Steinkopff
Number Of Pages: 616
Publication Date: 2010-01-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3798518688
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783798518681
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The surgical treatment of the aortic valve and root disease, organic and ischemic mitral regurgitation, and endocarditis has made great strides. Still, there is the well-known dilemma: on the one hand the need for anticoagulation in patients with mechanical valves that otherwise guarantee long-term functioning and, on the other, the unpredictable durability of biological substitutes and of valve repair procedures which, per se, do not require anticoagulation. The choice of procedure is determined by factors such as patients' age, metabolic and bleeding disorders, and bleeding preconditions, as well as such critical issues as the desire to bear children in young women. In this book internationally renowned experts focus on current surgical approaches to and evolving trends in aortic valve repair, aortic root and valve replacement with pulmonary autograft, aortic allograft, stentless and stented bioprostheses. Further contributions deal with recent advances in catheter-based percutaneous and transapical techniques, ablation techniques for atrial fibrillation, tissue engineering of heart valves, multi-modality imaging, and anticoagulation.
