| Male Sexual Function Posted: 21 Jan 2008 11:28 PM CST Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology) Product Details Book Publisher: Humana Press (15 July, 2006) ISBN: 1588297470 Book author: John J. Mulcahy Book Description: Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management, Second Edition, completely updates and reviews newer developments, including linking erectile dysfunction (ED) with lower urinary tract systems, advances in erectile physiology, and the appreciation of ED as a form of endothelial dysfunction and a harbinger of other potentially lethal forms of vascular disease. Treatments of ED as well as the background, causes, associated conditions, and diagnostic tools are also provided. This new updated edition also presents the facts of sexual function and dysfunction so that the practitioner can properly treat basic problems with easily prescribed therapies. Also included is a new chapter on cardiovascular disease as well as chapters on pelvic surgeries, intracavernous injections with vasoactive agents, and vacuum erection devices. Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the field of male sexual function for urologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, gynecologists, and psychologists and therapists who specialize in ED.  |
| Headache and Chronic Pain Syndromes Posted: 21 Jan 2008 11:26 PM CST  Product Details Book Publisher: Humana Press (15 September, 2006) ISBN: 1588297454 Book author: Dawn A. Marcus Book Description: Headache and Chronic Pain Syndromes provides a case-based approach to state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment of patients with common chronically painful conditions. Offering strategies for rapidly evaluating and treating pain complaints by body region, this innovative title also provides patient educational handouts that explain the diagnosis and treatment in easy-to-understand language for each condition. Tools for implementing both medication and non-medication therapies, such as exercise and relaxation techniques, are also included. Each chapter opens with typical presentations of three to five common patient scenarios, including pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients. A targeted approach for patient assessment is provided and applied to each scenario, showing how to rapidly identify important clues to distinguish among common diagnoses, including both benign and malignant causes of pain. Standard treatment regimens are then provided for each patient, along with patient-friendly educational flyers for each common pain condition. Figures and drawings help provide ready identification of these common chronic pain syndromes. Headache and Chronic Pain Syndrome offers primary care practitioners, neurologists, and orthopedists an optimal approach to the evaluation, treatment, and follow-up of chronically painful conditions.  |
| Infections and the Cardiovascular System Posted: 21 Jan 2008 11:25 PM CST  Product Details Book Publisher: Springer (28 February, 2003) ISBN: 0306474042 Book author: I.W. Fong Book Description: Infectious agents have been recognized to involve the heart and vascular system for well over a century. Traditional concepts and teachings of their involvement in the pathogenesis of disease have been by a few established mechanisms. Since the last decade of the 20th century there has been renewed interest in the medical and public media on infectious diseases affecting the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems, through their relationship with the development of acceleration of atherosclerosis. This volume highlights and reviews new perspectives of infections on the cardiovascular system as never before. It is a truly valuable resource for scientists, researchers, residents, and fellows in the fields of infectious disease, cardiology, and microbiology. Infections and the Cardiovascular System: New Perspectives |
| Infection and Autoimmunity Posted: 21 Jan 2008 11:23 PM CST  Product Details Book Publisher: Elsevier Science (02 November, 2004) ISBN: 0444512713 Book author: Y. Shoenfeld, Noel Richard Rose Book Description: Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks the body organs instead of foreign invaders. This book deals with the various mechanisms which infectious agents can trigger autoimmunity such as molecular mimicry, polyclonal activation and others. An overview is given with regard to bacteria, viruses and parasites associated with autoimmunity. There is a summary on classical autoimmune diseases and the infecting agents that can induce them. Infection and Autoimmunity |
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