Medicine

  • Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering
    Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering NEW
    Editor Jose A. Andrades
    ISBN 978-953-51-1108-5
    853 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 94
    Few events in science have captured the same level of sustained interest and imagination of the nonscientific community as Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering, and Regenerative Medicine. The fundamental concept of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medic ...
  • Selected Topics on Computed Tomography
    Selected Topics on Computed Tomography NEW
    Editor Dongqing Wang
    ISBN 978-953-51-1102-3
    70 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 387
  • Psychiatric Disorders - New Frontiers in Affective Disorders
    Psychiatric Disorders - New Frontiers in Affective Disorders NEW
    Editor Dieter Schoepf
    ISBN 978-953-51-1147-4
    304 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 86
    Affective disorders are a subject of interest to clinicians for more than a century. The awareness of an urgent need for an evidence-based “personalized” approach of treatment is growing in the field of psychiatry. This book brings together leadi ...
  • Electrodiagnosis in New Frontiers of Clinical Research
    Electrodiagnosis in New Frontiers of Clinical Research NEW
    Editor Hande Turker
    ISBN 978-953-51-1118-4
    311 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 81
    Utilization of electrodiagnosis; namely electromyography (EMG), nerve conduction studies, late responses, repetitive nerve stimulation techniques, quantitative EMG and evoked potentials, has long been discussed in many text books as basic principles. ...
  • New Research Directions in DNA Repair
    New Research Directions in DNA Repair NEW
    Editor Clark Chen
    ISBN 978-953-51-1114-6
    661 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 73
    This book is intended for students and scientists working in the field of DNA repair. Select topics are presented here to illustrate novel concepts in DNA repair, the cross-talks between DNA repair and other fundamental cellular processes, and clini ...
  • Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy - Increasing Relevance in Cancer Management
    Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy - Increasing Relevance in Cancer Management NEW
    Editor Maurie M. Markman
    ISBN 978-953-51-1139-9
    104 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 59
    In the chapters of this excellent text, the authors have described advances in the neoadjuvant chemotherapeutic management of a number of tumor types. Based on the extensive experience with this management concept in breast cancer, several chapters a ...
  • Ultrasound Imaging
    Ultrasound Imaging
    Editor Masayuki Tanabe
    ISBN 978-953-307-239-5
    210 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 21599
    In this book, we present a dozen state of the art developments for ultrasound imaging, for example, hardware implementation, transducer, beamforming, signal processing, measurement of elasticity and diagnosis. The editors would like to thank all the ...
  • Advances in the Scientific Evaluation of Bladder Cancer and Molecular Basis for Diagnosis and Treatment
    Advances in the Scientific Evaluation of Bladder Cancer and Molecular Basis for Diagnosis and Treatment NEW
    Editor Raj Persad and Weranja Ranasinghe
    ISBN 978-953-51-1142-9
    130 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 52
    Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world affecting more than 300,000 men and women worldwide. This book summarizes the vast breadth of current understanding of the molecular and genetic processes involved in carcinogenesis of the b ...
  • Current Topics in Public Health
    Current Topics in Public Health NEW
    Editor Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
    ISBN 978-953-51-1121-4
    732 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 216
    Public Health is regarded as the basis and cornerstone of health, generally and in medicine. Defined as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, org ...
  • Leukemia
    Leukemia NEW
    Editor Margarita Guenova and Gueorgui Balatzenko
    ISBN 978-953-51-1127-6
    244 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 190
    Leukemias are a group of heterogeneous neoplastic disorders, that differ significantly in terms of morhological, immunophenotypic, cytogenetic and molecular features of malignant cells. These specific features reflect the differences in the spectrum ...
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases
    Neurodegenerative Diseases NEW
    Editor Uday Kishore
    ISBN 978-953-51-1088-0
    628 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 188
    This book highlights the pathophysiological complexities of the mechanisms and factors that are likely to be involved in a range of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, other Dementia, Parkinson Diseases and ...
  • Current Issues in Sports and Exercise Medicine
    Current Issues in Sports and Exercise Medicine NEW
    Editor Michael Hamlin, Nick Draper and Yaso Kathiravel
    ISBN 978-953-51-1031-6
    229 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 181
    This unique resource presents current issues in sports and exercise medicine which outlines new areas of knowledge and provides updates on current knowledge in the broad field of sports and exercise medicine. Written by experts in their own sub-disc ...
  • Topics in Osteoporosis
    Topics in Osteoporosis NEW
    Editor Margarita Valdes Flores
    ISBN 978-953-51-1066-8
    279 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 157
    Osteoporosis affects the osteo-articular system. However, there are hormonal, kidney related, gastrointestinal and neuromuscular factors among other, that can be involved in the etiopathogenesis of the disease. In the other hand, for osteoporosis pre ...
  • Cancer Treatment - Conventional and Innovative Approaches
    Cancer Treatment - Conventional and Innovative Approaches NEW
    Editor Letícia Rangel
    ISBN 978-953-51-1098-9
    618 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 246
    Cancer Treatment: Conventional and Innovative Approaches is an attempt to integrate into a book volume the various aspects of cancer treatment, compiling comprehensive reviews written by an international team of experts in the field. The volume is pr ...
  • Hot Topics in Endocrine and Endocrine-Related Diseases
    Hot Topics in Endocrine and Endocrine-Related Diseases NEW
    Editor Monica Fedele
    ISBN 978-953-51-1080-4
    266 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 228
    This book covers a selected number of hot topics in endocrine and hormone-related pathologies, discussed by eminent scientists and clinicians coming from different countries of the world. It deals with advanced recent trends in the field, including n ...
  • Stem Cell Biology in Normal Life and Diseases
    Stem Cell Biology in Normal Life and Diseases NEW
    Editor Kamran Alimoghaddam
    ISBN 978-953-51-1107-8
    185 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 222
    Stem cells have a prominent role in normal life and also in pathogenesis of disorders. Today, these cells are clinically applicable in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation but expansion of their application in many more disorders needs more work. ...
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Myocarditis
    Diagnosis and Treatment of Myocarditis NEW
    Editor José Milei and Giuseppe Ambrosio
    ISBN 978-953-51-1082-8
    196 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 198
    Myocarditis is a clinical syndrome, most frequently of infectious etiology, that occurs with a broad range of relatively non-specific symptoms, and consists of an inflammatory process of the heart with necrosis and degeneration of the myocardium by ...
  • Hepatic Surgery
    Hepatic Surgery
    Editor Hesham Abdeldayem
    ISBN 978-953-51-0965-5
    644 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1236
    Longmire, called it a "hostile" organ because it welcomes malignant cells and sepsis so warmly, bleeds so copiously, and is often the ?rst organ to be injured in blunt abdominal trauma. To balance these negative factors, the liver has two great attri ...
  • Tuberculosis - Current Issues in Diagnosis and Management
    Tuberculosis - Current Issues in Diagnosis and Management
    Editor Bassam H. Mahboub and Mayank G. Vats
    ISBN 978-953-51-1049-1
    489 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 793
    Data are rapidly accumulating from all over the world regarding the efficacy of standardized treatment regimens for drug-sensitive, drug-resistant TB and latent TB infection. While we are facing the menace of multi drug-resistant TB [MDR-TB], extens ...
  • Common Eye Infections
    Common Eye Infections NEW
    Editor Imtiaz A. Chaudhry
    ISBN 978-953-51-0926-6
    249 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 184
    Since ocular infections are one of the most frequent occurrences in ophthalmology, the treatment for these infections must be fast, precise and effective. In order to address this goal, it is important to identify and characterize the culprit microor ...