Published May, 2012
By Franco Muggia and Franco M. Muggia
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Includes topics such as: Targeting IGF-1R, Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Lung Cancer, Targeting mTOR, Targeting Hedgehog, Mitotic Inhibitors, Topoisomerase I Inhibitors, and New Strategies and Drugs Inhibiting Folate Pathways.

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Published May, 2012
By Valentin Fuster and Jagat Narula
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Provides the essential updates on coronary risk factors. This title provides answers to such questions as: Are new biomarkers informative? LDL: the lower the better? How important is HDL? How much credit does triglyceride deserve? How important is family history of coronary disease? And, more.

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Published May, 2012
By Roxana Mehran and Annapoorna S. Kini
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death among US women over the age of 65, resulting in more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. Women are less likely to survive heart attacks than are men, possibly because symptoms in women may differ and may be less recognizable. This title provides information on percutaneous interventions.

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Published May, 2012
By Samir Shah, Edward Feller and Adam Harris
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Focuses on methods of diagnosing and evaluating IBD to help guide optimal treatment to maximize clinical outcomes and minimize risks. This title deals with endoscopy: its role in diagnosis and monitoring IBD; the importance of chromoendoscopy in IBD surveillance exams; assessment of post-operative recurrence; and, the role of capsule endoscopy.

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Published May, 2012
By Holly Holmes
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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With the use of multiple medications in the elderly patient comes the risk of drug-related problems. This issue covers polypharmacy in the elderly patient with topics that include: The Interplay between Polypharmacy, Geriatric Conditions, and Adverse Drug Reactions, Factors Leading to Excessive Polypharmacy, and Tools to Decrease Polypharmacy.

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Published April, 2012
By Jay N. Cohn, Gary S. Francis and Gary Francis
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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In the joint American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association classification system, Stage B heart failure refers to patients with structural heart disease but no symptoms of heart failure. This title examines structural heart disease and the factors that cause progression from risk of heart failure to development of structural changes.

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Published April, 2012
By Fred Schiffman, Anthony Mega and Fred J. Schiffman
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Includes topics such as: Why does my patient have leukocytosis? Why Is My Patient Neutropenic? Does My Patient with a Serum Monoclonal Spike have Multiple Myeloma? DVT and Pulmonary Embolism, Why Does My Patient Have Lymphadenopathy/Splenomegaly? And Why Does My Patient have Thrombocytopenia?

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Published April, 2012
By Joel Turner
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Covers such topics as: Thoracic Dissection, Thoracic Trauma, Asthma, COPD, PE, Influenza, Pneumonia, Pleural Based Disease, and Mechanical Ventilation.

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Published April, 2012
By Samir S. Taneja, William C. Huang and Samir Taneja
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Focuses on Renal Cancer and the treatment standards in urology. In this title, articles include Contemporary Imaging of the Renal Mass, Surgical Approach to Multifocal Renal Cancers, and, Systemic Therapy Prior to Surgery. It also discusses effects of the various existing surgical approaches on long-term renal function.

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Published April, 2012
By Samin K. Sharma and Igor Palacios
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Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Among the advanced procedures for treating heart disease in a minimally invasive way are the techniques for percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease. This title provides a description of several percutaneous procedures, including trans-catheter aortic valve implantation.

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