Published September, 2009
By Dudley J. Pennell, Raymond J. Kim and Dudley Pennell
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has evolved into a first-line imaging tool for several cardiac pathologies. This title focuses on the areas in which CMI is the best modality, such as assessment of cardiac morphology and cardiac function, evaluation of pericardial disease and intracardiac masses, and detection of coronary artery disease.

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Published September, 2009
By David A. Sass
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Suitable for a practicing clinician, this book presents some of the best practices of caring for a cirrhotic patient. It covers topics such as diagnosis and epidemiology of cirrhosis; ascites: diagnosis and management; encephalopathy: pathophysiology and emerging therapies; and, portal hypertensive bleeding.

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Published September, 2009
By E. Wesley Ely, Pratik Pandharipande and E.Wesley Ely
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Looks at modern Sedation techniques in the critically ill. This issue includes topics such as: Pharmacology of commonly used sedatives and analgesics in the ICU, Sedation practices: lessons learned from international surveys, Sedation and Immunomodulation, and Sedation and sleep disturbances in the ICU, and more.

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Published September, 2009
By Mary Margaret Gleason, Daniel S. Schechter, Dr. Daniel S. Schechter and Daniel Schechter
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Discusses Infant Development. This title includes two articles on assessment in early childhood psychiatry: Psychiatric assessment, and Assessment of the caregiver-child relationship in early childhood psychiatry. It also discusses Early Childhood Mental Health Problems, such as Internalizing, Trauma and PTSD, and Preschool Disruptive Behavior.

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Published September, 2009
By David M. Spiro, Mohamud Daya and David Spiro
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Includes articles on GI Bleeding, Hepatic Encephalopathy, Bleeding diatheses, Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Hyperviscosity syndrome, Polycythemia, Hyperleukocytosis, Thrombocytosis, and more.

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Published September, 2009
By Marin H. Kollef, Scott T. Micek, Marin Kollef and Dr. Martin H. Kollef
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Covers infectious disease issues encountered in the ICU, including the approach to the febrile patient, management of septic shock, severe community-acquired pneumonia, management of ventilator-associated pneumonia, approach to the immunocompromised host, bloodstream infection, severe soft tissue infections, and meningitis and brain abscess.

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Published September, 2009
By Scott B. Reeder and Pratik Mukherjee
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Offers information on imaging modality. This book explores such subjects as diffusion weighted MR imaging in musculoskeletal radiology, arterial spin labeled perfusion imaging, and diffusion tensor imaging of neurodegenerative diseases.

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Published September, 2009
By Jeffrey I. Hunt and Daniel P. Dickstein
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Suitable for child psychiatrists, this book includes articles that include: evolution of coneptualization of bipolar disorder; phenomenology, course and outcome; and living with bipolar disorder. It also includes assessment of bipolar disorder; emotion regulation in children and adolescents; comorbidity; and bipolar disorder in preschooler.

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Published August, 2009
By Paul J. Pockros
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Presents articles that deals with therapies for treatment of HCV. This title addresses such novel therapies as interferons, viral kinetics and anti-viral resistance, anti-fibrotics, immunotherapeutics, hepatoprotectants and caspace inhibitors, and cyclosporine analogues.

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Published August, 2009
By Philip Mease
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Presents the rheumatologist with the breakthroughs in the assessment and treatment of fibromyalgia. This title covers topics that include fibromyalgia and central sensitization disorders; neurobiology/pathophysiology of fibromyalgia; genetics and socioenvironmental influences; neuroimaging; dysautonomia; and, patient-reported outcome measures.

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