A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology (eBook)

Terry F. Davies, MD, FRCPBaumritter Professor of Medicine,Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone DiseasesIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,New York, NYUSA

Section 1: Pituitary 1. Overview: The role of medical therapy for secretory pituitary adenomas: current practices and new therapeutics 2. Acromegaly, awareness is paramount for early diagnosis: highlights of diagnosis and treatment challenges 3. A non-traumatic hip fracture in a young woman: Cushing’s disease—consequences of a late diagnosis and treatment highlights Section 2: Thyroid overactivity                                                 4. Introduction                       5. TSH-Secreting Pituitary 6. Struma Ovarii               7.  Exogenous Thyrotoxicosis               Section 3: Thyroid underactivity                                8. Thyroid Underactivity: Introduction              9. Central Hypothyroidism 10. Treatment of hypothyroidism – Utility of adding T3 (liothyronine)11. Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy           12. Hypothyroid myopathy and thelogen effluvium            Section 4: Thyroid cancer                                            13. Introduction on Thyroid Chapters14. Approach to the Patient with an Incidentally Discovered Thyroid Nodule15. Papillary Thyroid Cancer               16. Metastatic papillary thyroid cancer                17. Management of Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer18. Thyroid cancer and bone metastases                Section 5: Adrenal                                              19. Primary aldosteronism20. Adrenal Incidentaloma and Subclinical Hypercortisolism21. A Case of PheochromocytomaSection 6: Hyperparathyroidism22. Introduction: Parathyroid Disorders23.Complex hyperparathyroidism24. Differential diagnosis of hypocalcemia25. Management of hypoparathyroidism26. Osteomalacia and primary hyperparathyroidism                                     Section 7: Metabolic bone diseases27. Advances and challenges in the management of Osteoporosis28. Multiple Risk Factors for Osteoporosis and Fracture 29. Delayed Diagnosis of Osteoporosis 30. Misdagnosis of atypical Femur Fractures          Section 8: Endocrine Disorders of Men31. Introduction: Endocrine Disorders in Men32. Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism33. Klinefelter Syndrome34.  Low testosterone and the Metabolic Syndrome                     Section 9: Pregnancy   35.  Introduction: Endocrine Cases and Pregnancy36. Getting pregnant with PCOS37. Thyrotoxicosis in pregnancy38. Gestational diabetesSection 10: Diabetes    39. Introduction: Type 2 Diabetes 40.   Evaluation and Management of the Newly-diagnosed Patient with Type 2 Diabetes41.  Transition to Insulin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes42.  Inpatient managementSection 11: Lipid abnormalities           43. Introduction: On Lipids44. LDL-apheresis Therapy for Refractory Familial Hypercholesterolemia 45. Familial type II Hyperlipoproteinemia (familial dysbetalipoproteinemia)46.  Severe hypertriglycideremiaSection 12: Obesity47. Introduction – Obesity and the metabolic syndrome48. Managing a metabolic syndrome case 49. The Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)50. Bariatric Surgery