Principles of Corticosteroid Therapy
Hodder Arnold (Verlag)
978-0-340-75934-9 (ISBN)
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Principles of Cortocosteroid Therapy provides a thorough and systematic review of the clinical use of corticosteroids, a class of drugs whose potent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive actions have placed them among the most widely used in medicine. However, these drugs have many serious side effects on many organ systems. Proper use requires a thorough understanding of their mechanism of action, clinical indications and adverse effects.
This book outlines in detail the use of corticosteroids in diseases that affect each organ system and follows with a thorough discussion of their side effects. It analyses the use of corticosteroids in pregnancy, neonates, childhood and adolescence, as well as covering special management issues such as pulse corticosteroid and medicolegal aspects.
Principles of Corticosteroid Therapy will be of major interest to medical students and residents. Medical students will find it especially useful during their training in pharmacology and clinical medicine and it will be an indispensable text to residents in internal medicine and all its subspecialties. Doctors in many fields of medicine, especially internal medicine, will find it immensely valuable in the daily management of their patients.
Written by internationally recognized clinicians in internal medicine, immunology, rheumatology and other fields of medicine. Principles of Cortocosteroid Therapy is the first comprehensive and authoritative text to discuss the clinical use of cortocosteroids.
Andrew Lin is an Associate Professor in the Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Sciences at the University of Alberta in Canada. Stephen Paget is the Joseph P. Routh Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, and also the Physician-in-Chief, Attending Rheumatologist and Chair of the Division of Rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Section 1: Overview of Corticosteroid Therapy
History of corticosteroid therapy
Clinical use of corticosteroids: an overview
Section 2: Basic Science Aspects
Physiological functions of corticosteroids
Mechanism of glucocorticoid action on the immune system and in inflammation
Section 3: Systemic Effects of Corticosteroid Therapy
Corticosteroids and the skeletal system
Steroid myopathy
Corticosteroids and the gastrointestinal tract
Corticosteroids and the endocrine system
Corticosteroids and the eye
Corticosteroids and the cardiovascular system
Corticosteroids and the hermatopoietic system
Corticosteroids and the nervous system
Corticosteroids and the integument
Corticosteroids and behavioral disturbances
Section 4: Clinical Usage
Corticosteroid replacement therapy
Corticosteriods in rheumatic diseases and autoimmune disorders
Corticosteriods in renal diseases
Corticosteroids in ocular diseases
Corticosteroids in allergic disorders
Corticosteroids in lung diseases
Corticosteroids in infectious diseases
Corticosteroids in gastrointestinal diseases
Corticosteroids in diseases of the nervous system
Corticosteroids in cutaneous diseases
Corticosteroids in cardiovascular diseases
Corticosteroids in hematologic diseases
Corticosteroids in neoplastic disorders
Section 5: Special management considerations
Corticosteroids in pregnancy and lactation
Corticosteroids in neonatal epithelial cell adaptation and endothelial cell-mediated injury
Corticosteroids in adolescence and childhood
Intectious complications of cortisosteroid therapy
Pulse corticosteroid therapy
Medical-legal aspects of corticosteroid therapy.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.5.2002 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 100 b/w illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Rheumatologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-340-75934-8 / 0340759348 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-340-75934-9 / 9780340759349 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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