Endocrine Secrets, 8th Edition

by Michael T. McDermott, MD

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ISBN: 9780443261947

Publication Date: 11-20-2025

Page Count: 624

Imprint: Elsevier

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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.

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Key Features
- 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
Contents

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SECTION I
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: Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Pumps
CHAPTER 6 Carbohydrate Counting and Precise Insulin Dosing
CHAPTER 7 Inpatient Management of Diabetes and Stress Hyperglycemia
CHAPTER 8 Diabetes in Pregnancy
CHAPTER 9 Diabetes Management in Cancer Patients
CHAPTER 10 Hypoglycemic Disorders
CHAPTER 11 Lipid Disorders
CHAPTER 12 Obesity

SECTION II
CHAPTER 13 Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases
CHAPTER 14 Measurement of Bone Mass
CHAPTER 15 Osteoporosis Management
CHAPTER 16 Osteomalacia, Rickets, and Vitamin D Insufficiency
CHAPTER 17 Paget’s Disease of Bone
CHAPTER 18 Hypercalcemia
CHAPTER 19 Hyperparathyroidism
CHAPTER 20 Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
CHAPTER 21 Hypocalcemia
CHAPTER 22 Nephrolithiasis

SECTION III
CHAPTER 23 Anterior Pituitary Insufficiency (Hypopituitarism)
CHAPTER 24 Nonfunctioning Pituitary Tumors and Pituitary Incidentalomas
CHAPTER 25 Pituitary Stalk Lesions
CHAPTER 26 Prolactin-Secreting Pituitary Tumors
CHAPTER 27 Growth Hormone–Secreting Pituitary Tumors
CHAPTER 28 Cushing’s Syndrome
CHAPTER 29 Glycoprotein Secreting Pituitary Tumors
CHAPTER 30 Water Metabolism
CHAPTER 31 Disorders of Growth
CHAPTER 32 Growth Hormone Use and Abuse

SECTION IV
CHAPTER 33 Primary Aldosteronism
CHAPTER 34 Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas
CHAPTER 35 Adrenal Incidentalomas
CHAPTER 36 Adrenal Malignancies
CHAPTER 37 Adrenal Insufficiency
CHAPTER 38 Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

SECTION V
CHAPTER 39 Thyroid Testing
CHAPTER 40 Hyperthyroidism
CHAPTER 41 Hypothyroidism
CHAPTER 42 Thyroiditis
CHAPTER 43 Thyroid Nodules and Goiter
CHAPTER 44 Thyroid Cancer
CHAPTER 45 Thyroid Emergencies
CHAPTER 46 Euthyroid Sick Syndrome
CHAPTER 47 Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy
CHAPTER 48 Psychiatric Disorders and Thyroid Disease
CHAPTER 49 Disorders of Puberty
CHAPTER 50 Male Hypogonadism
CHAPTER 51 Erectile Dysfunction
CHAPTER 52 Gynecomastia
CHAPTER 53 Amenorrhea
CHAPTER 54 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
CHAPTER 55 Hirsutism and Virilization
CHAPTER 56 Menopause
CHAPTER 57 Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults
CHAPTER 58 Use and Abuse of Anabolic–Androgenic Steroids and Androgen Precursors

SECTION VI
CHAPTER 59 Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndromes
CHAPTER 60 Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
CHAPTER 61 Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
CHAPTER 62 Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Crisis
CHAPTER 63 Aging and Endocrinology
CHAPTER 64 Endocrinopathies Due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
CHAPTER 65 Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
CHAPTER 66 Adrenal Surgery
CHAPTER 67 Pancreas and Other GI Neuroendocrine Tumors
CHAPTER 68 Bariatric Surgery
CHAPTER 69 Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology
CHAPTER 70 Endocrinology in Africa
CHAPTER 71 Pseudoendocrine Disorders: Recognition and Management
CHAPTER 72 Famous People With Endocrine Disorders
CHAPTER 73 Interesting Endocrine Facts and Figures
CHAPTER 74 Endocrine Case Studies

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Authors

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