Full Description
The body of knowledge in most medical specialties is rapidly expanding, making it virtually impossible to follow all advances in clinical and basic sciences that are relevant to a given field. This is particularly true in pediatric endocrinology, at the cross-road of pediatrics, endocrinology, development and genetics. Providing abstracts of articles that report the year's breakthrough developments in the basic sciences and evidence-based new knowledge in clinical research and clinical practice that are relevant to the field, the Yearbook of Pediatric Endocrinology 2011 keeps busy clinicians and scientists, pediatric endocrinologists, and also pediatricians and endocrinologists informed on new advances. Twelve Associate Editors and their co-authors selected from several thousand papers those that brought the most meaningful new information, summarized them and provided comments to put them into perspective. The papers are classified into those that identify new genes involved in diseases, new hormones, concepts revised or re-centered, important observations for clinical practice, large-scale clinical trials, new mechanisms, new paradigms, important review articles, new fears and new hopes. Because the Yearbook is endorsed by the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE), its publication is linked to the annual meeting of the ESPE. The Yearbook of Pediatric Endocrinology 2011 covers the medical and scientific literature from June 2010 through May 2011.
Contents
Preface; Ze'ev Hochberg and Jean-Claude Carel; Neuroendocrinology; Lucie Chevrier, Lukas Huijbregts, Carine Villanueva and Nicolas De Roux; Pituitary; Evelien F. Gevers and Mehul T. Dattani; Thyroid; Michel Polak, Mireille Castanet, Aurore Carre and Gabor Szinnai; Growth and Growth Factors; Stefano Cianfarani; Bone, Growth Plate and Mineral Metabolism; Outi Makitie and Ola Nilsson; Reproductive Endocrinology 2011; Lena Sahlin and Olle Soder; Adrenals; Erica L.T. van den Akker and Evangelia Charmandari; Type 1 Diabetes: Clinical and Experimental; Francesco Chiarelli and M. Loredana Marcovecchio; Obesity and Weight Regulation; Martin Wabitsch, Daniel Tews, Michaela Keuper, Carsten Posovszky, Christian Denzer, Primoz Kotnik, Anja Moss, Julia von Schnurbein and Pamela Fischer-Posovszky; Type 2 Diabetes, the Metabolic Syndrome and Dyslipidemia in Children and Adolescents; Orit Pinhas-Hamiel; Population Genetics and Pharmacogenetics; Ken K. Ong; Evidence-Based Medicine in Pediatric Endocrinology; Gary Butler, Carrie Williams and Stephen O'Riordan; Editor's Choice; Jean-Claude Carel and Ze'ev Hochberg; Science and Medicine; Ze'ev Hochberg; Author Index; Subject Index.
