This essential atlas for mastering advanced cardiac imaging features over 120 cases and 566 high-quality illustrations. It integrates CT, MRI, and echocardiography to enhance diagnostic accuracy across a broad spectrum of cardiovascular conditions.
Rare prostate cancers have an aggressive biological behaviour and inferior prognosis, often due to delayed or incorrect diagnosis. This book updates the literature on rare neoplasms of the prostate to help speed up diagnosis and treatment and encourage research into new options.
An essential companion for orthopaedic trainees, this book uses questions and solutions to complement intensive study. It provides prompt access to crucial knowledge to prepare a patient for surgery. This volume is Part I; a subsequent volume will cover regional orthopaedics.
Applications of Acupuncture to Neurological Conditions
A significant advance in evidence-based acupuncture for neurological disorders. This book integrates traditional wisdom with modern science like fMRI to reveal how acupuncture influences the brain, opening new frontiers in the treatment of brain-related conditions.
This book explores an organism’s development in health and disease from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It offers a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment and the mechanisms that maintain its internal energy.
Extraordinary Nursing Practice
This book highlights nurses’ extraordinary work through stories of caring for patients, families, and communities. It introduces the intricacies of patient and nurse relationships and reveals the scientific, artistic, and ethical knowledge nurses rely on.
Calcium Study to Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
This book explains recent scientific discoveries on calcium storage in cells and their link to Alzheimer’s. It presents unprecedented information on the disease process and introduces a new therapeutic ready for clinical trials, benefiting patients, families, and researchers.
This book comprehensively covers public health dentistry in an up-to-date way. Designed to be concise and understandable, it is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those preparing for entrance exams. Every chapter includes references for further reading.
Based on research on human cadavers, this book explores the connections and variabilities of the autonomic nervous system. Detailed illustrations and schemes help the reader understand its function and peculiarities within the whole peripheral nervous system.
Controversies in Medicine and Neuroscience
From the unique perspective of a neurosurgeon and medical historian, this book explores fascinating topics in the life sciences—from historic advances in psychosurgery and neurobiology to the ancient mystery of Neolithic trepanation and the complexities of modern bioethics.
This book provides concrete steps for applying Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills in complex, error-prone situations. Learn to communicate clearly, be assertive about safety, and support your team to prevent errors, using best practices from real-world clinical scenarios.
This book challenges the modern doctrine of pneumonia. Based on decades of research, it substantiates new principles of treatment clinically proven to be effective without the usual emphasis on etiotropic agents, and analyzes the causes behind widespread medical misconceptions.
Fetal Exposition to Synthetic Sex Hormones
This book reveals the deleterious somatic and psychiatric effects of artificial hormones on children whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy. What is particularly worrying is the multigenerational harm of such endocrine disruptors, a real danger for future generations.
An Atlas of Renal Transplant Pathology
This compilation of renal transplant biopsies, with clinical cases and microphotographs, is a practical guide for nephrologists, pathologists, and surgeons. It serves as a resource to plan treatment strategies and aid in the interpretation of biopsies.
Developing a Drug to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
This book focuses on Alzheimer’s and other dementias, exploring the lack of effective drugs. It proposes changes to FDA protocols to accelerate the drug pipeline and discusses new directions in research—offering hope for families, scientists, and entrepreneurs.
In an era of biomedical technology, how do we account for the subjective experiences of illness and suffering? This unique book offers an international medical anthropology perspective on the ethics of care and the importance of the patient’s voice in healthcare.
This book summarizes Professor Zhengping Liu’s research on complete placenta previa and the clinical application of Liu’s incision. It discusses advanced approaches in surgery, diagnosis, and anesthesia, combining images and 3D videos to help clinicians master clinical practice.
The AMS 800
This in-depth guide explores the AMS 800 artificial urinary sphincter (AUS), a ground-breaking solution for severe urinary incontinence. Combining medical research and expert insights, it’s an essential resource for urologists, providers, and patients considering AUS therapy.
This concise guide to trauma provides updated, evidence-based techniques, practical guidelines, and new concepts from the golden hour to definitive treatment. It is an essential reference for doctors, medical students, and those sitting for professional examinations.
A comprehensive review of advancements in microbial physiology, covering topics like bacterial virulence, bioluminescence, and heat shock proteins. This book is essential for students, researchers, and teachers in microbiology, medical sciences, and life sciences.