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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Endocrine Secrets, 8th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style-making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

• The proven Secrets Series® format gives you **the most return for your time-**succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
• Fully revised and updated throughout, covering all aspects of today’s practice of endocrinology, including obesity management, weight loss drugs, and bariatric surgery; type 2 diabetes mellitus; insulin therapy; thyroid cancer; osteoporosis therapies; and much more
• New chapters on Diabetes Management in Patients with Cancer; Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology; and Pseudo-Endocrine Disorders
• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
• Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
• Written and fully updated by clinical and thought leaders in endocrinology who have contributed chapters in their areas of expertise. Dr. McDermott, editor of this volume, is also the editor of Diabetes Secrets in the Secrets Series®
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

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SECTION I Fuel Metabolism

1. Diabetes Mellitus: Etiology, Classification, and Diagnosis
2. Diabetes Mellitus: Acute and Chronic Complications
3. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
4. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
5. Diabetes Technology: Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Pumps
6. Carbohydrate Counting and Precise Insulin Dosing
7. Inpatient Management of Diabetes and Stress Hyperglycemia
8. Diabetes in Pregnancy
9. Diabetes Management in Cancer Patients
10. Hypoglycemic Disorders
11. Lipid Disorders
12. Obesity

SECTION II Bone and Mineral Disorders
13. Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases
14. Measurement of Bone Mass
15. Osteoporosis Management
16. Osteomalacia, Rickets, and Vitamin D Insufficiency
17. Paget’s Disease of Bone
18. Hypercalcemia
19. Hyperparathyroidism
20. Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
21. Hypocalcemia
22. Nephrolithiasis

SECTION III Pituitary and Hypothalamic Disorders
23. Anterior Pituitary Insufficiency (Hypopituitarism)
24. Nonfunctioning Pituitary Tumors and Pituitary Incidentalomas
25. Pituitary Stalk Lesions
26. Prolactin-Secreting Pituitary Tumors
27. Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Tumors
28. Cushing’s Syndrome
29. Glycoprotein Secreting Pituitary Tumors
30. Water Metabolism
31. Disorders of Growth
32. Growth Hormone Use and Abuse

SECTION IV Adrenal Disorders
33. Primary Aldosteronism
34. Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas
35. Adrenal Incidentalomas
36. Adrenal Malignancies
37. Adrenal Insufficiency
38. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

SECTION V Thyroid Disorders
39. Thyroid Testing
40. Hyperthyroidism
41. Hypothyroidism
42. Thyroiditis
43. Thyroid Nodules and Goiter
44. Thyroid Cancer
45. Thyroid Emergencies
46. Euthyroid Sick Syndrome
47. Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy
48. Psychiatric Disorders and Thyroid Disease
49. Disorders of Puberty
50. Male Hypogonadism
51. Erectile Dysfunction
52. Gynecomastia
53. Amenorrhea
54. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
55. Hirsutism and Virilization
56. Menopause
57. Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults
58. Use and Abuse of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids and Androgen Precursors

SECTION VI Miscellaneous Topics
59. Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndromes
60. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
61. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
62. Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Crisis
63. Aging and Endocrinology
64. Endocrinopathies Due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
65. Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
66. Adrenal Surgery
67. Pancreas and Other GI Neuroendocrine Tumors
68. Bariatric Surgery
69. Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology
70. Endocrinology in Africa
71. Pseudoendocrine Disorders: Recognition and Management
72. Famous People With Endocrine Disorders
73. Interesting Endocrine Facts and Figures
74. Endocrine Case Studies