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, 8th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource 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.
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, covering all aspects of today’s practice of endocrinology, including obesity management, weight loss drugs, and bariatric surgery; type 2 diabetes mellitus; insulin therapy; thyroid cancer; osteoporosis therapies; and much more
New chapters on Diabetes Management in Patients with Cancer; Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology; and Pseudo-Endocrine Disorders
Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
Written and fully updated by clinical and thought leaders in endocrinology who have contributed chapters in their areas of expertise. Dr. McDermott, editor of this volume, is also the editor of Diabetes Secrets in the Secrets Series®
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
SECTION I Fuel Metabolism 1. Diabetes Mellitus: Etiology, Classification, and Diagnosis 2. Diabetes Mellitus: Acute and Chronic Complications 3. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus 4. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 5. Diabetes Technology: Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Pumps 6. Carbohydrate Counting and Precise Insulin Dosing 7. Inpatient Management of Diabetes and Stress Hyperglycemia 8. Diabetes in Pregnancy 9. Diabetes Management in Cancer Patients 10. Hypoglycemic Disorders 11. Lipid Disorders 12. Obesity
SECTION II Bone and Mineral Disorders 13. Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases 14. Measurement of Bone Mass 15. Osteoporosis Management 16. Osteomalacia, Rickets, and Vitamin D Insufficiency 17. Paget’s Disease of Bone 18. Hypercalcemia 19. Hyperparathyroidism 20. Hypercalcemia of Malignancy 21. Hypocalcemia 22. Nephrolithiasis
SECTION III Pituitary and Hypothalamic Disorders 23. Anterior Pituitary Insufficiency (Hypopituitarism) 24. Nonfunctioning Pituitary Tumors and Pituitary Incidentalomas 25. Pituitary Stalk Lesions 26. Prolactin-Secreting Pituitary Tumors 27. Growth Hormone–Secreting Pituitary Tumors 28. Cushing’s Syndrome 29. Glycoprotein Secreting Pituitary Tumors 30. Water Metabolism 31. Disorders of Growth 32. Growth Hormone Use and Abuse
SECTION V Thyroid Disorders 39. Thyroid Testing 40. Hyperthyroidism 41. Hypothyroidism 42. Thyroiditis 43. Thyroid Nodules and Goiter 44. Thyroid Cancer 45. Thyroid Emergencies 46. Euthyroid Sick Syndrome 47. Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy 48. Psychiatric Disorders and Thyroid Disease 49. Disorders of Puberty 50. Male Hypogonadism 51. Erectile Dysfunction 52. Gynecomastia 53. Amenorrhea 54. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 55. Hirsutism and Virilization 56. Menopause 57. Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults 58. Use and Abuse of Anabolic–Androgenic Steroids and Androgen Precursors
SECTION VI Miscellaneous Topics 59. Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndromes 60. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 61. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors 62. Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Crisis 63. Aging and Endocrinology 64. Endocrinopathies Due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors 65. Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 66. Adrenal Surgery 67. Pancreas and Other GI Neuroendocrine Tumors 68. Bariatric Surgery 69. Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology 70. Endocrinology in Africa 71. Pseudoendocrine Disorders: Recognition and Management 72. Famous People With Endocrine Disorders 73. Interesting Endocrine Facts and Figures 74. Endocrine Case Studies
Michael T. McDermott, MD, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy, Lucas Family Endowed Chair in Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
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