For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Endocrine Secrets, 7th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
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- The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.
- Fully revised and updated throughout, including protocols and guidelines that are continuously evolving and that increasingly dictate best practices.
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- Features bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from prominent endocrinologists – all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content.
- Keeps you up to date with new techniques and technologies, as well as changing treatment options and drug information.
- Equips you for effective practice with coverage of the most current developments in obesity management, weight loss drugs, and bariatric surgery; type 2 diabetes mellitus; insulin therapy; thyroid cancer; osteoporosis therapies; and much more.
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Author Information
By Michael T. McDermott, MD, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine and Michael T. McDermott, MD, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine
CHAPTER 1 DIABETES MELLITUS: ETIOLOGY, CLASSIFICATION, AND DIAGNOSIS
CHAPTER 2 DIABETES MELLITUS: ACUTE AND CHRONIC COMPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 3 TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS
CHAPTER 4 TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS
CHAPTER 5 DIABETES TECHNOLOGY: PUMPS, SENSORS, AND BEYOND
CHAPTER 6 CARBOHYDRATE COUNTING–GUIDED INSULIN DOSING: PRACTICE EXERCISES
CHAPTER 7 INPATIENT MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES AND HYPERGLYCEMIA
CHAPTER 8 DIABETES IN PREGNANCY
CHAPTER 9 HYPOGLYCEMIC DISORDERS
CHAPTER 10 LIPID DISORDERS
CHAPTER 11 OBESITY
CHAPTER 12 OSTEOPOROSIS AND OTHER METABOLIC BONE DISEASES: EVALUATION
CHAPTER 13 MEASUREMENT OF BONE MASS
CHAPTER 14 OSTEOPOROSIS MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 15 OSTEOMALACIA, RICKETS, AND VITAMIN D INSUFFICIENCY
CHAPTER 16 PAGET’S DISEASE OF BONE
CHAPTER 17 HYPERCALCEMIA
CHAPTER 18 HYPERPARATHYROIDISM
CHAPTER 19 HYPERCALCEMIA OF MALIGNANCY
CHAPTER 20 HYPOCALCEMIA 164 Shari C. Fox
CHAPTER 21 NEPHROLITHIASIS 170
CHAPTER 22 PITUITARY INSUFFICIENCY
CHAPTER 23 NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY TUMORS AND PITUITARY INCIDENTALOMAS
CHAPTER 24 PITUITARY STALK LESIONS
CHAPTER 25 PROLACTIN-SECRETING PITUITARY TUMORS
CHAPTER 26 GROWTH HORMONE–SECRETING PITUITARY TUMORS
CHAPTER 27 CUSHING’S SYNDROME
CHAPTER 28 GLYCOPROTEIN-SECRETING PITUITARY TUMORS
CHAPTER 29 WATER METABOLISM
CHAPTER 30 DISORDERS OF GROWTH
CHAPTER 31 GROWTH HORMONE USE AND ABUSE
CHAPTER 32 PRIMARY ALDOSTERONISM
CHAPTER 33 PHEOCHROMOCYTOMAS AND PARAGANGLIOMAS
CHAPTER 34 ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMAS
CHAPTER 35 ADRENAL MALIGNANCIES
CHAPTER 36 ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY
CHAPTER 37 CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA
CHAPTER 38 THYROID TESTING
CHAPTER 39 HYPERTHYROIDISM
CHAPTER 40 HYPOTHYROIDISM
CHAPTER 41 THYROIDITIS
CHAPTER 42 THYROID NODULES AND GOITER
CHAPTER 43 THYROID CANCER
CHAPTER 44 THYROID EMERGENCIES
CHAPTER 45 EUTHYROID SICK SYNDROME
CHAPTER 46 THYROID DISEASE IN PREGNANCY
CHAPTER 47 PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND THYROID DISEASE
CHAPTER 48 DIFFERENCES (DISORDERS) OF SEXUAL
CHAPTER 49 DISORDERS OF PUBERTY
CHAPTER 50 MALE HYPOGONADISM
CHAPTER 51 ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
CHAPTER 52 GYNECOMASTIA
CHAPTER 53 AMENORRHEA
CHAPTER 54 POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME
CHAPTER 55 HIRSUTISM AND VIRILIZATION
CHAPTER 56 MENOPAUSE
CHAPTER 57 G ENDER-AFFIRMING TREATMENT FOR ADULTS WITH GENDER INCONGRUENCE AND GENDER DYSPHORIA
CHAPTER 58 U SE AND ABUSE OF ANABOLIC–ANDROGENIC STEROIDS AND ANDROGEN PRECURSORS
CHAPTER 59 AUTOIMMUNE POLYGLANDULAR SYNDROMES
CHAPTER 60 MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA SYNDROMES
CHAPTER 61 PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS
CHAPTER 62 CARCINOID SYNDROME
CHAPTER 63 AGING AND ENDOCRINOLOGY
CHAPTER 64 ENDOCRINOPATHIES CAUSED BY IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITORS
CHAPTER 65 SLEEP AND ENDOCRINOLOGY
CHAPTER 66 THYROID AND PARATHYROID SURGERY
CHAPTER 67 ADRENAL SURGERY
CHAPTER 68 PANCREAS AND OTHER ENDOCRINE TUMOR SURGERY
CHAPTER 69 BARIATRIC SURGERY
CHAPTER 70 ENDOCRINOLOGY IN AFRICA
CHAPTER 71 FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
CHAPTER 72 INTERESTING ENDOCRINE FACTS AND FIGURES
CHAPTER 73 ENDOCRINE CASE STUDIES
