Full Description
Now in its revised and updated fourth edition, this state-of-the-art clinical textbook presents the current diagnosis and management of pediatric endocrine diseases and disorders as seen by practicing endocrinologists and primary care physicians. Seven thematic sections present the latest evidence for the management of growth, hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal, thyroid, calcium and bone, and reproductive disorders, as well as metabolic syndromes and endocrine emergencies. This fourth edition includes new topics such as conditions of overgrowth, low bone density and its management, endocrine issues related to sexual identity, mineralocorticoid disorders and endocrine hypertension, and endocrine emergencies. All chapters have been expanded to discuss recent advances in the field, and each chapter contains key points, an introductory discussion of the problem, a review of the clinical features that characterize it, the criteria needed to establish a diagnosis, and a comprehensive therapy section delineating the risks and benefits of the best therapeutic options available. Completing each chapter are concluding sections presenting relevant case material and multiple-choice review questions for students, residents and fellows.
Pediatric Endocrinology: A Practical Clinical Guide, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive resource for all clinicians concerned with the myriad endocrine disorders seen in children and adolescents.
Contents
Part I: Pediatric Growth Disorders.- Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency and Hypopituitarism.- Growth Hormone Insensitivity.- Normal Variant and Idiopathic Short Stature.- Growth Hormone Treatment of the Short Child Born Small for Gestational Age.- Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.- Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Turner Syndrome, Noonan Syndrome, and SHOX Gene Mutations.- Management of Adults with Childhood-Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency.- Skeletal Dysplasias.- Growth Hormone Excess and Other Conditions of Overgrowth.- Part II: Pediatric Adrenal Disorders.- Adrenal Insufficiency.- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.- Cushing Syndrome in Childhood.- Mineralocorticoid Disorders and Endocrine Hypertension.- Part III: Pediatric Thyroid Disorders.- Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- Non-thyroidal illness Syndrome.- Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (RTH) and Resistance to TSH (RTSH).- Thyroid Neoplasia.- Part IV: Pediatric Mineral and Bone Disorders.- Abnormalities in Calcium Homeostasis.- Disorders of Phosphate Homeostasis.- Rickets: The Skeletal Disorders of Impaired Calcium or Phosphate Availability.- Pseudohypoparathyrodiism.- The Management of Osteoporosis in Children.- Part V: Pediatric Reproductive Disorders.- Delayed puberty onset and hypogonadism.- Precocious Puberty.- Management of Infants Born with Disorders/Differences of Sex Development.- Menstrual Disorders and Hyperandrogenism in Adolescence.- Hyperprolactinemia.- Part VI: Pediatric Metabolic Disorders.- Hypoglycemia.- Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents.- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Youth.- Disorders of Lipid Metabolism.- Endocrinologic Sequelae of Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity.- Part VII: Other Pediatric Endocrine Disorders.- Diabetes Insipidus: Arginine Vasopressin Deficiency and Arginine Vasopressin Resistance.- Autoimmune Endocrine Disorders.- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia and Familial Isolated Pituitary Adenoma in the paediatric population.- McCune Albright Syndrome.- Management of Acute and Late Endocrine Effects of Childhood Cancer Treatment.- Care of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.- Management of Endocrine Emergencies.- The Endocrine Response to Critical Illness.
