cover image - Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 15th Edition
ISBN: 9780323932301
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 07-08-2024
Page Count: 1862
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $241.99

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 15th Edition

by Shlomo Melmed, Richard J. Auchus, MD, PhD, Allison B. Goldfine, MD, Clifford J. Rosen, MD and Peter A. Kopp

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cover image - Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 15th Edition
ISBN: 9780323932301
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 07-08-2024
Page Count: 1862
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $241.99
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    • Presents current information in a highly illustrated, user-friendly format for quick reference.
    • Includes new chapters on Skeletal Regulation of Metabolism, Digitized Approaches to Diabetes Therapeutics, and MODY and Atypical Diabetes.
    • Reflects updated approaches to transgender medicine as well as new coverage of viral infections, including COVID-19.
    • Covers hot topics such as personalized medicine; the latest methodologies and trends regarding cancer genomics, precision oncology, and cell biology; and updates in key areas such as adrenal dysfunction and diabetes.
    • Provides state-of-the-art coverage of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, metabolic bone disorders, obesity and thyroid disease, as well as pituitary, gonadal, and adrenal disorders, and much more—all designed to help you provide optimal care to every patient.
    • Features contributions from today’s thought leaders in endocrinology.
    • Contains a selected reading list and highlighted key references nominated by the editors.
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.
  • Section I. Hormones and Hormone Action
    1. Principles of Endocrinology
    2. Principles of Hormone Action
    3. Genetics of Endocrinology
    4. Laboratory Techniques for Recognition of Endocrine Disorders
    Section II. Hypothalamus and Pituitary
    5. Neuroendocrinology
    6. Pituitary Physiology and Diagnostic Evaluation
    7. Pituitary Adenomas and Masses
    8. Posterior Pituitary
    Section III. Thyroid
    9. Thyroid Pathophysiology and Diagnostic Evaluation
    10. Hyperthyroid Disorders
    11. Hypothyroidism and Thyroiditis
    12. Nontoxic Diffuse Goiter, Nodular Thyroid Disorders, and Thyroid Malignancies
    Section IV. Adrenal Cortex and Endocrine Hypertension
    13. The Adrenal Cortex
    14. Endocrine Hypertension
    Section V. Sexual Development and Function
    15. Physiology and Pathology of the Female Reproductive Axis
    16. Hormonal Contraception
    17. Testicular Disorders
    18. Sexual Function and Dysfunction
    Section VI. Endocrinology and the Lifespan
    A. Maternal-Fetal
    19. Endocrine Changes in Pregnancy
    20. Endocrinology of Fetal Development
    B. Childhood
    21. Differences of Sex Development
    22. Normal and Aberrant Growth in Children
    23. Physiology and Disorders of Puberty
    24. Transgender Endocrinology
    C. Adulthood
    25. Hormones and Athletic Performance
    26. Endocrine Function and Aging
    Section VII. Mineral Metabolism
    27. Hormones and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism
    28. Endocrine Functions of Bone
    29. Osteoporosis: Basic and Clinical Aspects
    30. Rickets and Osteomalacia
    31. Kidney Stones
    Section VIII. Disorders of Carbohydrate and Fat Metabolism
    32. Physiology of Insulin Secretion
    33. Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
    34. Therapeutics of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
    35. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
    36. Digitized Approaches to Diabetes Diagnostics and Therapeutics
    37. Monogenic Diabetes
    38. Complications of Diabetes Mellitus
    39. Hypoglycemia
    40. Obesity and Neuroendocrine Control of Energy Stores
    41. Disorders of Lipoprotein Metabolism
    Section IX. Polyendocrine and Neoplastic Disorders
    42. Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes
    43. Neuroendocrine Tumors and Disorders
    44. The Immunoendocrinopathy Syndromes
    45. Endocrinology of Cancer Management and Survivorship
    46. Endocrinology of HIV/AIDS
    47. Acute and Chronic COVID-19 and the Endocrine System
    48. Endocrine Disorders of Critical Illness
    Index
  • Shlomo Melmed, Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical Faculty, Cedars Sinai Health System, USA, Richard J. Auchus, MD, PhD, Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, University of Michigan, Endocrinology Service Chief, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Allison B. Goldfine, MD, Associate Physician, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Lecturer, Part-Time, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Director, Translational Medicine Cardiometabolic Disease, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Clifford J. Rosen, MD, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts and Peter A. Kopp, Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, and Metabolism, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Adjunct Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois