Updated and expanded for the second edition, this concise and thorough guide to clinical management of pediatric endocrine disorders covers growth, hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal, thyroid, calcium and bone and reproductive disorders, and metabolic syndromes.

A revised and updated edition of the classic 2013 text on pediatric endocrinology, including five new chapters and revamped interior design

Discusses growth disorders, hypothalamic and pituitary disorders, adrenal disorders, thyroid disorders, mineral and bone disorders, reproductive disorders and contraception, metabolic disorders and endocrine emergencies

Includes an updated and consistent chapter format that introduces the problem, reviews its clinical features, presents the diagnostic criteria, and discusses the management strategies with an eye to risks and benefits

A revised and updated edition of the classic 2013 textbook on pediatric endocrinology, including five new chapters and revamped interior design Discusses growth disorders, hypothalamic and pituitary disorders, adrenal disorders, thyroid disorders, mineral and bone disorders, reproductive disorders and contraception, metabolic disorders and endocrine emergencies Includes an updated and consistent chapter format that introduces the problem, reviews its clinical features, presents the diagnostic criteria, and discusses the management strategies with an eye to risks and benefits

Autorentext

Sally Radovick, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Physician-in-Chief

Bristol Myers-Squibb Children's Hospital

Chancellor's Scholar New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH

Fritz Bradley Talbot and Nathan Bill Talbot Professor of Pediatrics

Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA, USA

Inhalt

Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency and Hypopituitarism.- Growth Hormone Insensitivity.- Normal Variant and Idiopathic Short Stature.- Growth Hormone Treatment of the Short Child Born Small for Gestational Age.- Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.- Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Turner Syndrome, Noonan Syndrome, and SHOX Gene Mutations.- Management of Adults with Childhood-Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency.- Skeletal Dysplasias.- Growth Hormone Excess and Other Conditions of Overgrowth.- Diabetes Insipidus.- Management of Acute and Late Endocrine Effects Following Childhood Cancer.- Treatment Endocrinologic Sequelae of Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity.- Adrenal Insufficiency.- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.- Cushing Syndrome in Childhood.- Mineralocorticoid Disorders and Endocrine Hypertension.- Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- Non-Thyroidal Illness Syndrome.- Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (RTH) and Resistance to TSH (RTSH).- Thyroid Neoplasia.- Abnormalities in Calcium Homeostasis.- Rickets: The Skeletal Disorders of Impaired Calcium or Phosphate Availability.- Osteoporosis: Diagnosis and Management.- Delayed Puberty and Hypogonadism.- Precocious Puberty.- Management of Infants Born with Disorders/Differences of Sex Development.- Menstrual Disorders and Hyperandrogenism in Adolescence.- Contraception.- Hypoglycemia.- Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents.- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Youth.- Disorders of Lipid Metabolism.- Autoimmune Endocrine Disorders.- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes.- Care of Gender Nonconforming / Transgender Youth.- Management of Endocrine Emergencies.- The Endocrine Response to Critical Illness.- The Endocrine Response to Critical Illness.