Clinical Cases in Internal Medicine Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition

• Fifty clinical cases cover the internal medicine curriculum.
• Logical and scientific approaches are adopted in the selection of the material and its presentation.
• Useful up-to-date resources are provided at the end of each case.
• Diagrams and tables are selected to explain difficult concepts and summarize important issues respectively.
• Disease mechanisms and pathogenesis have been clearly outlined.

Section 1. Gastroenterology and Hepatobiliary Systems

Case 1.1 “I have tummy pain…” Case 1.2 “I am loosing weight…”  Case 1.3 “Not regular…” Case 1.4 “As dark as coffee ground…” Case 1.5 “There is blood in my stool…” Case 1.6 “It is itching allover…” Case 1.7 “Not feeling well..” Case 1.8 “I have the runs…” Case 1.9 “Nothing is working for me..”

Section 2. Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems

Case 2.1 “Short of breath…” Case 2.2 “Still coughing…” Case 2.3 “I was admitted in hospital…” Case 2.4 “I have been smoking for over 20 years..”  Case 2.5 “Nearly fainted in the bathroom…” Case 2.6 “Like a stone on my chest…” Case 2.7 “Not feeling well…” Case 2.8 “In the backyard…” Case 2.9 “While at the university campus...” Case 2.10 “I am coughing up blood…”

Section 3. Nervous System

Case 3.1 “Tremor in hands…” Case 3.2 “Not moving…” Case 3.3 “Is it because of my back pain?” Case 3.4 “I have severe headache…” Case 3.5 “Because of double vision…” Case 3.6 “In the intensive care…” Case 3.7 “Things are spinning around me..” Case 3.8 “My feet are painfully hot”

Section 4. Rheumatology and Immune System

Case 4.1 “Stiff in the morning…” Case 4.2 “Progressive pain in my knees…” Case 4.3 “After my fall…” Case 4.4 “Is it series…” Case 4.5 “I have pain in my heels” Case 4.6 “Red and tender…” Case 4.7 “I was nearly dead…”

Section 5. Endocrine System

Case 5.1 “the trouble with my vision…” Case 5.2 “I feel too hot…” Case 5.3 “Did not work …” Case 5.4 “Tried hard to lose weight…” Case 5.5 “They rushed me to the emergency room..” Case 5.6 “Too tired..”

Section 6. Haematology Ststem

Case 6.1 “Looking pale…” Case 6.2 “After returning from a holiday in Europe…” Case 6.3 “Bleeding gums…” Case 6.4 “Unexpected outcomes…” Case 6.5 “Before travelling to Congo in Africa…” Case 6.6 “Sweating and chills”

Section 7. Renal System

Case 7.1 “After a severe attack of diarrhoea” Case 7.2 “…fluid build up in my body” Case 7.3 “I only feel tired…” Case 7.4 “burning pain on passing urine…”

Index of cases

1. Peptic ulcer 2. Malabsorption, coeliac disease 3. Colon cancer 4. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension 5. Inflammatory bowel disease 6. Hepatitis 7. Acute pancreatitis 8. Acute diarrhoea 9. Irritable bowl syndrome 10. Bronchial asthma 11. Pulmonary tuberculosis 12. Pneumonia 13. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 14. Pulmonary embolism 15. Myocardial infarction and atherosclerosis 16. Congestive heart failure and mitral stenosis 17. Aortic stenosis and syncope 18. Heart block and syncope 19. Lung cancer 20. Parkinson’s disease 21. Stroke 22. Disc prolapse 23. Meningitis 24. Myasthenia gravis 25. Heat stroke 26. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo 27. Diabetic polyneuropathy 28. Rheumatoid arthritis 29. Osteoarthritis 30. Osteoporosis 31. Systemic lupus erythematosus 32. Reactive arthritis 33. Gout 34. Anaphylaxis 35. Acromegaly 36. Hyperthyroidism 37. Adrenal tumour 38. Metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus type 2 39. Diabetes mellitus, type 1 40. Addison’s disease 41. Iron deficiency anaemia 42. Multiple myeloma 43. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura 44. Chronic myeloid leukaemia. 45. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency-Haemolysis 46. Fever- Malaria 47. Acute renal failure 48. Nephrotic syndrome 49. Chronic renal failure 50. Urinary tract infection