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Retinopathy of Prematurity: Current Diagnosis and Management 1st ed

November 10, 2017

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This clinically oriented book is devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a leading cause of childhood blindness. World-renowned experts in the field discuss epidemiologic and pathogenic aspects of the disease. The staging and classification of ROP are explained in detail, and guidance is provided on appropriate anesthesia. The state of the art in imaging of ROP is described and illustrated, with coverage of the advances in ophthalmic imaging technology and telemedicine that have revolutionized pediatric retinal examinations and contributed significantly in elucidating the pathophysiology of ROP and improving diagnosis and treatment. Treatment indications and therapeutic alternatives, including the use of antiproliferative drugs, are addressed in separate chapters, supplying the reader with the most up-to-date knowledge in the field.

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Andrés Kychenthal, MD, graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1991 and subsequently specialized in Ophthalmology. From 1995 to 2004 he worked as an Ophthalmologist in Santiago, Chile, except for a period as a Fellow in the Vitreoretinal Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. In 2004 Dr. Kychenthal joined Clínica Tabancura, Santiago as Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Vitreo-Retina Specialist, and Director of the Ophthalmic Service, and from 2005 to 2012 he occupied the same positions at Roberto del Rio Children’s Hospital, Santiago. In 2012 he was appointed Director of the KYDOFT Foundation for Pediatric Retina. Dr. Kychenthal is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association of Pediatric Vitreoretinal Surgeons, and Club Jules Gonin. He has authored more than 20 articles in national and international publications and regularly gives presentations at international meetings.

Paola Dorta, MD, graduated in 1994 from the School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, where she subsequently undertook a residency in Ophthalmology, joined the ROP and Ocular Trauma program, and pursued a Vitreoretinal Fellowship. She also undertook an Observership in the Retina Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. After working as an ophthalmologist at Hospital Salvador, Universidad de Chile and Clinica Tabancura, Santiago, in 2005 Dr. Dorta was appointed Director of the Retinopathy of Prematurity Program and Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Roberto del Rio Children’s Hospital, Santiago. She also served as National Advisor on the National ROP Program for the Chilean Ministry of Heath. In 2012 Dr. Dorta became Medical Director of the KYDOFT Foundation for Pediatric Retina. Dr. Dorta is a member of several professional organizations and regularly gives presentations at international meetings.

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Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis 3rd ed

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This book, now in an extensively updated and expanded third edition, offers important insights into polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), providing an overview of their pathophysiology, genetics, immunology, and endocrinological mechanisms but above all presenting the state of the art in diagnosis and treatment. Both PMR and GCA are diseases of advanced age. Early diagnosis and treatment can save one of the most precious senses – vision. In this book, the role of imaging techniques is thoroughly examined, with particular attention to ultrasonography and FDG PET. All aspects of management of both diseases are discussed, including the current use of glucocorticoids, the efficacy of modern biological treatment, such as infliximab, tocilizumab, and rituximab, and the available monitoring tools. Diagnostic criteria for PMR and GCA are outlined, with discussion of differential diagnosis. Among the other topics addressed are disease classification, the histopathology of GCA, the ACR criteria for temporal arteritis, the value of temporal artery biopsy in GCA, serum cytokine profiles, chronobiology, and sine syndromes. The reader will find that the book aids in achieving early diagnosis and providing faster and more effective disease management. General readers with an interest in rheumatology, internal medicine, oftalmology and gerontology will find this book particularly valuable.

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Jozef Rovenský, MD, PhD, DSc, graduated in Medicine from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic in 1966 and subsequently completed specializations in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, and Clinical Immunology at the Postgraduate Medical School, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He was awarded his PhD from the School of Medicine (Internal Medicine), František Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic and his DSc from the School of Medicine (Internal Medicine), Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Research Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Piešťany, Slovak Republic and in 1991 became Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Masaryk University. In 1993, Dr. Rovenský was awarded the Silver Medal of the Slovak Medical Society for contributions to medical activity and in 1995 he was appointed Professor of Internal Medicine at Masaryk University. He has served on the editorial boards of various journals, including Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. He is the author of more than 200 publications.

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Big Data-Enabled Nursing: Education, Research and Practice (Health Informatics) 1st ed

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This text reflects how the learning health system infrastructure is maturing and being advanced by health information exchanges (HIEs) with multiple organizations blending their data or enabling distributed computing. It educates the readers on the evolution of knowledge discovery methods that span qualitative as well as quantitative data mining, including the expanse of data visualization capacities, are enabling sophisticated discovery.

Historically, nursing, in all of its missions of research/scholarship, education and practice, has not had access to large patient databases. Nursing has consequently adopted qualitative methodologies with small sample sizes, clinical trials and lab research. In the United States, large payer data has been amassed and structures/organizations have been created to welcome scientists to explore these large data to advance knowledge discovery.

Big Data-Enabled Nursing reflects on how health systems have developed and how electronic health records (EHRs) have now matured to generate massive databases with longitudinal trending. It provides instruction on the new opportunities for nursing and educates readers on the new skills in research methodologies that are being further enabled by new partnerships spanning all sectors.

About the Author

Five editors are national and international experts in nursing & health informatics, representing all sectors including health systems, corporate and vendors, academia, policy, and professional associations. All invited authors are recognized experts.

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Maxillofacial Imaging 2nd ed. 2018 Edition

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This book demonstrates how advanced medical imaging techniques can be successfully applied to dental and maxillofacial conditions. There is a focus on CT and MRI, but the use of all contemporary imaging techniques are illustrated including PET, PET/CT, ultrasonography, and cone beam CT. The presentation is in atlas style, with succinct, bulleted text and a wealth of high-quality images in multiple planes. All images for each patient are grouped to enable the reader very quickly to gain an imaging overview of the condition under consideration. After a comprehensive introductory chapter on normal imaging anatomy, the role of advanced imaging techniques is described in pathologic conditions of the mandible and maxilla, temporomandibular joint, regions closely related to the jaw, paranasal sinuses, oral cavity, salivary glands, and structures adjacent to the maxillofacial region. A concluding chapter examines the use of interventional procedures for diagnosis and treatment of maxillofacial conditions. Compared with the first edition, numerous additional cases have been incorporated and a completely new chapter focuses on cone beam CT. The book will be useful for oral and maxillofacial radiologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, dentists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, head and neck surgeons, and others who work with maxillofacial conditions.

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Tore A. Larheim, professor dr odont (PhD) Head, Department of Maxillofacial Radiology Head, Policlinic with Postgraduate (Specialist) Program in Maxillofacial Radiology at the University of Oslo.

PL Westesson, MD, DDS, PhD, former chief of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at the University of Rochester NY.

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Patient Safety and Quality in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation 1st ed

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This volume provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of patient safety issues and quality improvement for the pediatric hematology/oncology/stem cell transplant practice. The book reviews patient safety in complex healthcare delivery systems, delineates the various safety issues affecting pediatric hematology/oncology patients, and discusses quality improvement methods and improvement science that allow the reader to implement and sustain change in their home institution. The text also explores mechanisms to measure quality and safety outcomes, allowing the provider to implement proven processes shown to minimize harm to patients.

Written by experts in the field, Patient Safety and Quality in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals treating pediatric hematology, oncology and stem cell transplant patients.

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Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Neurosurgery 1st ed. 2017 Edition

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This book is the first comprehensive work summarizing the advances that have been made in the neurosurgical use of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) over the past ten years. Having increasingly gained acceptance as a presurgical mapping modality in neurosurgery, today it is widely used for preoperative mapping of cortical motor and language function, risk stratification and improving the accuracy of subcortical fiber bundle visualization.

This unique work will provide neurosurgeons and neuroscientists who are starting their nTMS program essential and detailed information on the technique and protocols, as well as the current clinical evidence on and limitations of the various applications of nTMS. At the same time, more experienced nTMS users looking for deeper insights into nTMS mapping and treatment in neurosurgery will find clearly structured, accessible information. The book was prepared by an international mix of authors, each of which was chosen for their status as a respected expert on the respective subtopic, as evinced by their landmark publications on nTMS.

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Sandro Krieg is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of eloquent brain tumors including pre- and intraoperative mapping techniques. Dr. Krieg received his medical degree from TU Munich School of Medicine. He worked during his residency at the the Department of Neurosurgery at the Technische Universität München. For his work on the application of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurosurgery he received awards of the German Academy of Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgical Research Foundation of the German Neurosurgical Society. Dr. Krieg has extensive neurophysiological experience and is a reviewer of numerous international neurosurgical but also general neuroscientific journals.

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Marijuana Medical Handbook: Practical Guide to Therapeutic Uses of Marijuana Revised Edition

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An estimated 40 million Americans have medical symptoms that marijuana can relieve. Marijuana Medical Handbookis a one-stop resource that gives candid, objective advice on using marijuana for healing, understanding its effects on the body, safe administration, targeting illnesses, side effects, and the various delivery methods from edibles and tinctures to smokeless vaporizer pipes. The book also details supply issues, cultivation solutions (in a chapter by renowned expert Ed Rosenthal), and legal consequences. This thoroughly revised edition incorporates the most up-to-date information on the ever-changing politics of marijuana, the plant’s usage, and medical research on it.

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Miscellaneous Medical Books

Practical Medicinal Chemistry with Macrocycles: Design, Synthesis, and Case Studies 1st Edition

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Macrocycles are medium to large ring compounds that offer medicinal chemists the benefits of both small molecules and biomolecules – oral bioavailability and extended surface areas, respectively; as a result, they possess great potential for modulation of difficult therapeutic targets. Accordingly, there is now extensive interest in the use of macrocycles for drug discovery, hence the need for a handy guidebook about the basics and practices of working with such compounds.

Practical Medicinal Chemistry with Macrocycles offers a practical resource for those scientists developing new therapeutic agents. With chapters contributed from leading international figures involved in macrocyclic drug discovery efforts, the book is broken into four parts: challenges specific to macrocycles, classes of macrocycles and their potential in drug discovery, the synthetic toolbox for macrocycles, and case studies of macrocyclic marketed drugs and clinical candidates.

These aspects of the book combine to offer a number of key features that include:

Background to build a drug discovery program based on macrocycles – design criteria, molecular profiles, applications, potential pitfalls and limitations
Numerous synthetic approaches and strategies to build, diversify and optimize macrocycles in the context of medicinal chemistry efforts
A wealth of successful examples and case studies to help deal with the synthetic and conceptual challenges of working with macrocycles

About the Author

Eric Marsault, PhD, is Professor of Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Sherbrooke as well as the Director of the Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke. Previously, he was Group Leader, then Director of Medicinal Chemistry at Tranzyme Pharma, where he worked for eight years.

Mark L. Peterson, PhD, is Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary at Cyclenium Pharma, of which he is a member of the founding management / scientific team. He has over 25 years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

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Principles and Practice of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Congenital Heart Disease: Form, Function and Flow 1st Edition

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CMR is a powerful tool in the armamentarium of pediatric cardiology and health care workers caring for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), but a successful study still presents major technical and clinical challenges. This text was created to give trainees, practitioners, allied professionals, and researchers a repository of dependable information and images to base their use of CMR on.

Because CHD presents an intricate web of connections and associations that need to be deciphered, the imager performing CMR needs to understand not only anatomy, physiology, function, and surgery for CHD, but also the technical aspects of imaging. Written by experts from the world’s leading institutions, many of whom pioneered the techniques and strategies described, the text is organized in a logical way to provide a complete understanding of the issues involved. It is divided into three main parts:

The Basics of CMR – familiarizes the reader with the minimum tools needed to understand the basics, such as evaluating morphology, ventricular function, and utilizing contrast agents
CMR of Congenital and Acquired Pediatric Heart Disease – discusses broad categories of CHD and the use of CMR in specific disease states
Special Topics in Pediatric Cardiac MR – covers other important areas such as the complementary role of CT scanning, interventional CMR, the role of the technologist in performing a CMR exam, and more

With the ever increasing sophistication of technology, more can be done with CMR in a high quality manner in a shorter period of time than had been imagined as recently as just a few years ago. Principles and Practice of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Congenital Heart Disease: Form, Function, and Flow makes a major contribution to applying these techniques to improved patient care. An ideal introduction for the novice or just the curious, this reference will be equally useful to the seasoned practitioner who wants to keep pace with developments in the field and would like a repository of information and images readily availalble.

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Managing Pain in Children: A Clinical Guide 1st Edition

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All children have a right to appropriate prevention, assessment and control of their pain. Managing Pain in Children is an evidence-based, practical guide to care in all areas of children’s pain management, providing nurses and other health care practitioners with the skills and expertise necessary to manage children’s pain effectively.

The text first explores the relevant anatomy and physiology of children, the latest policy guidelines surrounding pain management and ethical issues involved in managing children’s pain. It then goes on to look at the various pain assessment tools available for children and non-drug methods of pain relief. The text then goes on to apply these pain management principles to practice in relation to acute pain, chronic pain, palliative care and the management of procedural pain. Each of these chapters covers the evidence base, assessment techniques, pain relieving interventions, and guidance for best practice in both hospital and community settings.

Special features:

Practical and accessible, with ‘best practice’ points in each chapter
Written in the context of latest policy developments
Provides the necessary evidence-base for care throughout
With contributions from experts in the field

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