Featuring 450 large full-color illustrations, this comprehensive atlas shows how more than 200 disorders can disrupt the human body's equilibrium. It is designed to help healthcare professionals visualize disease processes, understand the rationales for clinical interventions, and explain to patients how diseases develop and progress.
Introductory chapters illustrate basic pathophysiologic concepts including cells, cancer, infection, genetics, and fluids and electrolytes. Twelve chapters organized by body system cover all major diseases, with illustrations, charts, and brief text on causes, pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatment.
This Third Edition includes eight new disease entries and updated information throughout. A new icon, Complications, highlights the typical progression of untreated disease.
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Höhe: 276 mm
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978-1-60547-152-5 (9781605471525)
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Contributors and consultants
Foreword
PART I CENTRAL CONCEPTS
CELLS, HOMEOSTASIS, AND DISEASE
CANCER
INFECTION
GENETICS
FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES
PART II DISORDERS
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS
GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
IMMUNOLOGIC DISORDERS
ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS
RENAL DISORDERS
SKIN DISORDERS
SENSORY DISORDERS
APPENDIX
TYPES OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
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Selected references
Index