Eugene Brauwald Anthony S. Fauci Dennis L. Kasper Stephen L. Hauser Dan L. Longo J. Larry Jameson

**DESCRIPTION**

* Expanded treatment with more algorithms and diagnostic decision trees * A new feature, Genetic Considerations, describes how new advances affect patient care * Clinical Guidelines now added throughout, provide evidence-based treatment strategies  * Alternative Medicine...a detailed chapter covers this emerging field  * New Chapter on Late Problems in Patients with Cancer  * New guidelines on Adolescent Health Care  * The latest in Gene Therapy with a new chapter on Screening, Prevention, and Counseling for Genetic Disorders  * New chapter on Infertility and Fertility Control  * Neurobiology of Disease highlights numerous advances made during "The disease of the Brain"  * Late-breaking treatment information on multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and more  * A new color atlas of malaria-infected red blood cells
 

**CONTENTS**

Part I: Introduction to Clinical Medicine.

 Part II: Cardinal Manifestations and Presentation of Disease.

 Part III: Genetics and Disease.

 Part IV: Clinical Pharmacology.

 Part V: Nutrition.

 Part VI: Oncology and Hematology.

 Part VII: Infectious Diseases.

 Part VIII: Disorders of the Cardiovascular System.

 Part IX: Disorders of the Respiratory System.

 Part X: Disorders of the Kidney and Urinary Tract.

 Part XI: Disorders of the Gastrointestinal System.

 Part XII: Disorders of the Immune System, connective Tissue, and Joints.

 Part XIII: Endocrinology and Metabolism.

 Part XIV: Neurologic Disorders.

 Part XV: Environmental and Occupational Hazards.

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LOOK WHAT'S NEW IN THE 15TH EDITION

Coverage of alternative medicine
Infertility & fertility control
Chapter on gene therapy—offers a balanced summary of the
promise & challenges of this new therapeutic strategy
Late problems in patients with cancer
Febrile patients presenting to the emergency department
Prevention of atherosclerosis— focuses on the importance of the traditional risk factors and novel risk factors that influence plaque stability
Covers myocardial reperfusion therapy, thrombolysis & primary coronary angioplasty—includes summarized guidelines for acute coronary care & risk stratification in the postinfarct patient
Unstable angina & congestive heart failure —advances in pathophysiology & therapy
Reveals new advances in adicction
Guidelines for selecting lung transplantation patients from among those with end-stage, irreversible, pulmonary parenchymal & vascular disease
Contemporary views of interstitial & granulomatous lung diseases at the interface between basic science & clinical pulmonology
A report on the major histocompatibility gene complex—explains the recent work done on the human genome project
Timely chapters on evaluation of liver function, bilirubin metabolis & hyperbilirubinemia, & alcoholic liver disease
A chapter on the neurobiology of disease— highlights the remarkable progress made during the “decade of the brain” in the 1990s
Continued emphasis on genetics—features new chapters on degenerative neurologic advancements
New guidelines on genetic predisposition & testing
A summary of the unique biology of prions & the clinical features of human prion disorders—by 1997 Nobel Laureate Stanley B. Prusiner—covers Creutzfeldt-jakob disease & the newly recognized prionopathy associated with mad cow disease
Acute neurologic disorders— describing disorders encountered in the critical medical illness setting
Progress in the treatment of Guillain-barre syndrome & related immune neuropathies
New chapters on advances in polymyositis, other immune muscle diseases and paraneoplastic diseases of the nervous system
A full report on the crucial role mitochondrial genetics plays in metabolic disorders, neurologic diseases, aging & cancer
Angiogenesis—key features of this important biologic process with far-reaching clinical implications by Judah Folkman, an authority in the field.