Medicine

  • 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: 352
  • 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: 151
    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 ...
  • Ultrasound Imaging
    Ultrasound Imaging
    Editor Masayuki Tanabe
    ISBN 978-953-307-239-5
    210 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 21538
    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 ...
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases
    Neurodegenerative Diseases NEW
    Editor Uday Kishore
    ISBN 978-953-51-1088-0
    628 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 135
    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 ...
  • Leukemia
    Leukemia NEW
    Editor Margarita Guenova and Gueorgui Balatzenko
    ISBN 978-953-51-1127-6
    244 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 111
    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 ...
  • Topics in Osteoporosis
    Topics in Osteoporosis NEW
    Editor Margarita Valdes Flores
    ISBN 978-953-51-1066-8
    279 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 107
    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 ...
  • 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: 95
    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 ...
  • 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: 208
    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: 197
    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: 194
    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: 173
    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 ...
  • Common Eye Infections
    Common Eye Infections NEW
    Editor Imtiaz A. Chaudhry
    ISBN 978-953-51-0926-6
    249 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 164
    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 ...
  • Hepatic Surgery
    Hepatic Surgery
    Editor Hesham Abdeldayem
    ISBN 978-953-51-0965-5
    644 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1215
    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: 768
    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 ...
  • Recent Advances in the Field of Ventricular Assist Devices
    Recent Advances in the Field of Ventricular Assist Devices NEW
    Editor Kazuo Komamura
    ISBN 978-953-51-1111-5
    93 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 139
    Recent Advances in the Field of Ventricular Assist Devices covers recent various advances and developments relating to ventricular assist devices and their diverse complications. Firstly, we overview recent technical advances as well as current indic ...
  • Peripheral Neuropathy - A New Insight into the Mechanism, Evaluation and Management of a Complex Disorder
    Peripheral Neuropathy - A New Insight into the Mechanism, Evaluation and Management of a Complex Disorder
    Editor Nizar Souayah
    ISBN 978-953-51-1060-6
    164 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 562
    Understanding the rapid changes in the evaluation and management of peripheral neuropathies, as well as the complexity of their mechanism, is a mandatory requirement for the practitioner to optimize patient's care. The objective of this book is to up ...
  • Cancer Stem Cells Theories and Practice
    Cancer Stem Cells Theories and Practice
    Editor Stanley Shostak
    ISBN 978-953-307-225-8
    442 pages, March, 2011
    Downloads: 7672
    Cancer Stem Cells Theories and Practice does not 'boldly go where no one has gone before!' Rather, Cancer Stem Cells Theories and Practice boldly goes where the cutting edge of research theory meets the concrete challenges of clinical practice. Cance ...
  • Current Perspectives in HIV Infection
    Current Perspectives in HIV Infection
    Editor Shailendra K. Saxena
    ISBN 978-953-51-1057-6
    469 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 381
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of HIV and AIDS including NeuroAIDS, as well as general concepts of pathology, immunity and immunopathology, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and etiology to current clinical recommendations in management of ...
  • Gestational Diabetes - Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
    Gestational Diabetes - Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment NEW
    Editor Luis Sobrevia
    ISBN 978-953-51-1077-4
    162 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 230
    This book summarizes several aspects of GD, which is caused by not well-understood multifactorial mechanisms. Common strategies seem to be key in the understanding of the syndrome, i.e., endothelial dysfunction and the role of other placenta cells su ...
  • Acupuncture in Modern Medicine
    Acupuncture in Modern Medicine
    Editor Lucy L. Chen and Tsung O. Cheng
    ISBN 978-953-51-1020-0
    389 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 662
    This book contains four integrated sections: 1) Acupuncture Research; 2) New Developments in Acupuncture; 3) Acupuncture Therapy for Clinical Conditions and 4) Assessment and Accessibility in Acupuncture Therapy. Section 1 provides updates on acupun ...