Internal Medicine: Just the Facts

 Content: Section Editors Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Section I: INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDICINE 1. Medical Professionalism, Thomas J. Olsen 2. Dermatology, Timothy Rice 3. Nutrition, Nora L. Porter and H. Douglas Walden 4. Preventive Medicine, Robert M. Heaney and Nora L. Porter 5. Perioperative Medicine, H. Douglas Walden 6. Common Problems in Otolaryngology, James Drake 7. Common Problems in Ophthalmology, Thomas J. Olsen 8. Selected Topics in Men\'s Health, Gina L. Michael, Margaret C. Hochreiter, and Mona Bahl 9. Women\'s Health, Thomas J. Olsen SECTION 2: ASSESSING THE MEDICAL LITERATURE 10. The Basics of Statistics, Thomas E. Burroughs 11. Describing and Displaying Data, Thomas E. Burroughs 12. Overview to Inferential Statistics: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing, Thomas E. Burroughs 13. Regression and Survival Analysis, Thomas E. Burroughs 14. Epidemiology and Study Design, Thomas E. Burroughs Section 3: GERIATRIC MEDICINE 15. Geriatric Assessment, John E. Morley 16. Geriatric Syndromes: The \'\'I\'s\'\' of Geriatrics, Julie Gammack17. The Confused Patient, Seema Joshi18. Frailty, John E. Morley19. Nutrition in Older Adults, David R. Thomas 20. Geropharmacology, Joseph J. Flaherty 21. Andropause, Syed H. Tariq and Matthew T. Haren 22. Depression in the Elderly, Chinya Murali and George T. Grossberg SECTION 4: ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 23. Asthma, Mark S. Dykewicz 24. Immunologic Lung Diseases, Raymond G. Slavin 25. Allergic Rhinitis, Raymond G. Slavin 26. Sinusitis, Raymond G. Slavin 27. Anaphylaxis, Mark S. Dykewicz 28. Drug Allergies, Mark S. Dykewicz SECTION 5: CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE 29. Cardiac Structure and Basic Physiology 30. Cardiac Diagnostic Testing, Deryk McDowell 31. Electrocardiogram Basics, Frank L. Bleyer 32. Arrhythmias, Daniel Friedman 33. Atrial Fibrillation, Frank L. Bleyer 34. Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infraction, Frank L. Bleyer 35. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Jeffrey Ciaramita 36. Chronic Coronary Artery Disease, Richard E. Stewart 37. Aortic Stenosis, Christopher R. Longnecker 38. Aortic Regurgitation, Joseph Polizzi 39. Mitral Stenosis, Jennifer Lash 40. Mitral Regurgitation, Kevin Fitzgerald 41. Endocarditis, Michael Forsberg 42. Heart Failure, Stephen Kuehn 43. Aortic and Peripheral Vessel Disease, Robert Neumayr 44. Diseases of the Pericardium, Peter Mikolajczak and Frank Bleyer 45. Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult, Abhay Laddu and Aaron Tang SECTION 6: ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM 46. Diabetes Mellitus, Sahar Hachem and Marla Bernbaum 47. Disorders of the Pituitary Gland, Kenneth Patrick L. Ligaray 48. Disorders of Calcium Metabolism, Kent R. Wehmeier 49. Metabolic Bone Diseases, Kent R. Wehmeier 50. Disorders of the Thyroid Gland, Alan B. Silverberg 51. Adrenal Gland, Bahaeldeen A. Laz 52. Familial Hypercholesterolemia, George T. Griffing SECTION 7: GASTROENTEROLOGY AND LIVER DISEASE 53. Diseases of the Esophagus, M. Louay Omran 54. Diseases of the Stomach, M. Louay Omran 55. Diseases of the Small Bowel, M. Louay Omran 56. Disease of the Colon and Rectum, M. Louay Omran 57. Liver and Biliary Diseases, Adrian M. Di Bisceglie 58. Diseases of the Pancreas, Adrian M. Di Bisceglie SECTION 8: HEMATOLOGY 59. Bone Marrow and Bone Marrow Failure, Catherine Iasiello 60. Red Blood Cell Disorders, Krishnamohan R. Basarakodu, Stephen L. Graziano, Scott W. McGee, Rajesh R. Nair, Michael C. Perry, Arun Rajan, Huda Salman, and Allison P. Wall 61. White Cell Disorders, C. Daniel Kingsley 62. Normal Hemostasis and Bleeding Disorders, Hans-Joachiim Reimers 63. Thrombophilia, Ganesh C. Kudva 64. Myelodysplasia, Scott McGee 65. Myeloproliferative Disorders, Sri Laxmi Valasareddi 66. Acute Leukemias, Krishnamohan R. Basarakodu 67. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Krishnamohan R. Basarakodu 68. Hodgkin Lymphoma, Rami Owera 69. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Osama Qubaiah and Paul Petruska 70. Multiple Myeloma and Related Disorders, Christopher N. Hueser 71. Transfusion Medicine, Marian Petrides and Allison Lisle SECTION 9: ONCOLOGY 72. Oncologic Screening and Detection, Syed Huq 73. Cancer Treatment Overview, Michael C. Perry 74. Central Nervous System Tumors, Nancy F. McKinney 75. Head and Neck Tumors, Huda Salman 76. Breast Cancer, Joanne E. Mortimer 77. Lung Cancer, Vamsidhar Velcheti and Ramaswamy Govindan 78. Gastrointestinal Cancer, Rami Owera 79. Genitourinary Oncology, Noah M. Hahn 80. Gynecologic Cancers, Sara E. Crowder and Michael C. Perry 81. Sarcomas, Nancy F. McKinney 82. Carcinoma of Unknown Primary, C. Daniel Kingsley 83. Oncologic Emergencies, C. Daniel Kingsley 84. The Risk of Therapy-Related Organ Damage in Long-Term Survivors of Cancer Treatment, Michael C. Perry SECTION 10: INFECTIOUS DISEASE 85. Fever of Unknown Origin, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 86. Central Nervous System Infections, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 87. Respiratory Tract Infections, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 88. Cardiovascular Infections, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 89. Intraabdominal Infections, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 90. Hepatitis, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 91. Genitourinary Tract Infections, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 92. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 93. Bone and Joint Infections, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 94. Sexually Transmitted Infections, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 95. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immuodeficiency Syndrome, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy 96. Mycobacteria, Musab U. Saeed, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy, and Donald J. Kennedy 97. Fungal Infections, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 98. Nocardia, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 99. Rickettsiosis and Ehrlichioses, Mary Abigail C. Dacuycuy and Donald J. Kennedy 100. Protozoan and Helminthic Infections, Musab U. Saeed and Donald J. Kennedy SECTION 11: NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE 101. Cerebrovascular Disease, Paisith Piriyawat 102. Movement Disorders, Francis A. Mithen 103.Neuromuscular Disorders, Ghazala Hayat 104. Spinal Cord and Nerve Root Disorders, Florian P. Thomas and Robert M. Woolsey 105. Epilepsy, Jayant N. Acharya 106. Headache, David J. Walsh SECTION 12: PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS 107. Personality Disorders, Miggie Greenberg and Mehret Gebretsadik 108. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, Sundeep Jayaprabhu and George T. Grossberg 109. Mood, Anxiety, Sleep, and Eating Disorders, Stacy Neff 110. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders, Harmeeta K. Singh and Jothika N. Manepalli 111. Substance-Related Disorders, Jeffrey Kao and George T. Grossberg SECTION 13: PULMONARY MEDICINE AND CRITICAL CARE 112. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Joseph Roland D. Espiritu and George M. Matuschak 113. Interstitial Lung Disease, George M. Matuschak and Ravi P. Nayak 114. Venous Thromboembolism, Wilman Ortega and George M. Matuschak 115. Pleural Diseases, Patricia A. Dettenmeier and George M. Matuschak 116. Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Lung Injury/ARDS, George M. Matuschak 117. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders, Joseph Roland D. Espiritu SECTION 14: NEPHROLOGY AND HYPERTENSION 118. Approach to the Patient with Kidney Disease, Kevin J. Martin 119. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders, Paul G. Schmitz 120. Acute Kidney Injury, Zhiwei Zhang 121. Chronic Kidney Disease, Marie D. Philipneri 122. Glomerular Disease, Rizwan A. Qazi and Bahar Bastani 123. Tubulointerstitial Disease, Alejandro C. Alvarez 124. Pathophysiology and Treatment of Kidney Stones, Rizwan A. Qazi and Bahar Bastani 125. Clinical Hypertension, Paul G. Schmitz SECTION 15: RHEUMATOLOGY 126. Crystal-Induced Arthropathies, Katherine K. Temprano 127. Vasculitis, Gideon Nesher 128. The Spondyloarthropathies, Rama Bandlamudi 129. Osteoarthritis, Peri Hickman Pepmueller 130. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Terry L. Moore 131. Miscellaneous Connective Tissue Diseases, Thomas G. Osborn 132. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Terry L. Moore Index