This lavishly illustrated unique atlas provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of FAF imaging in retinal diseases. It also compares FAF findings with other imaging techniques such as fundus photograph, fluorescein- and ICG angiography as well as optical coherence tomography. General ophthalmologists as well as retina specialists will...
Interest in clinical cardiovascular imaging has skyrocketed over the past quarter
century. Dozens of new imaging modalities have arisen from advances in the physical
sciences, electrical engineering, information technology, chemical synthesis,
and in pharmacology. Mostly driven by newly developed technology, these
advances have...
Most animals exhibit seasonal variation in their reproduction and survival
simply because most of them live in environments in which food availability
varies seasonally. This is true in the tropics as well as at the higher latitudes, but
at the higher latitudes the combined challenge of food shortage and low temperature
makes...
Bayesian methods are being used more often than ever before in biology and
medicine. For example, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Bayesian sequential stopping rules routinely are used for the design
of clinical trials. This book is based on the author’s experience working with
a variety of...
The 21st edition of Rudolph's Pediatrics continues a tradition of evolving and adapting to changes in pediatric medicine. Originally published in 1897 as Diseases of Infancy and Childhood,...
The American workforce is changing, creating new challenges for employers
to provide occupational health services to meet the needs of
employees. First, a shift from manufacturing to services, knowledgecentered,
and mobile work has changed the focus of occupational health
from physical injury and exposure-related illness...
Severe liver dysfunction results in massive physiologic derangement and high mortality. A concerted multidisciplinary effort is needed to support patients with severe acute liver failure (SALF) and treat them appropriately. This requires mobilization of significant resources. There is a need to put in place clinical teams to provide...
The mechanisms of disease production by infectious agents are presently
the focus of an unprecedented flowering of studies. The field has undoubtedly
received impetus from the considerable advances recently made in the
understanding of the structure, biochemistry, and biology of viruses, bacteria,
fungi, and other parasites....
Thoroughly revised for its Third Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text on genitourinary cancers. This edition has two new editors—Frans M.J. Debruyne and W. Marston Linehan—and more than 50% new contributors. Seventeen new chapters cover familial prostate cancer, biology of bone...
The era of endo-oncology has arrived. Endo-oncology is now firmly en-
trenched in the diagnosis and management of urologic cancers. From its early
days with transurethral resection of bladder tumors, to the more recent de-
cades with establishment of techniques for percutaneous resection of transi-
tional cell carcinoma,...
Over the past three decades the field of immunotoxicology, the study of
the effects of exposure to drugs, chemicals, or physical/environmental agents
on the structure and function of the immune system has benefited from an
increasingly detailed understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of
innate and acquired immunity....
Recent evidence proving the molecular link between unchecked, chronic inflammation and cancer has implicated the transcription factor NF-kB as a key factor in both inhibiting apoptosis and promoting cell proliferation. Since its initial identification 20 years ago as a simple regulating factor in one small part of the immune response, NF-kB...
