The cleveland clinic intensive review of internal medicine (5^th Ed.)

Now in its revised, updated Fifth Edition, The Cleveland Clinic Intensive Review of Internal Medicine offers thorough preparation for board certification and recertification exams in internal medicine. It is written by distinguished Cleveland Clinic faculty and serves as the syllabus for the Cleveland Clinic's esteemed internal medicine board review course. Clinical vignettes and bulleted lists throughout the book highlight key clinical points. This edition also includes boxed "Points to Remember". Board simulations appear at the end of each section. An updated mock board exam containing over 200 multiple-choice questions appears at the end of the book.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY SKILLS FOR THE INTERNIST: Health Screening and Adult Immunizations- Women's Hormonal Health Issues - Medical Diseases in Pregnancy - Biostatistics in Clinical Medicine: Diagnostic Tests - Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Disease- Preoperative Evaluation and Management for Major Noncardiac Surgery - Geriatric Medicine- Dermatology - Occupational Medicine - Psychiatric Disorders in Medical Practice - Genetic Disease - Neurology. INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome- Infective Endocarditis- Pneumonias - Infections in the Ambulatory Setting. HEMATOLOGY AND MEDICAL ONCOLOGY: Oncologic Emergencies - Gynecologic, Prostate, and Testicular Cancers - Leukemia - Disorders of Platelets and Coagulation - Anemia- Breast Cancer- Lymphoma - Plasma Cell Disorders - Review of Cellular Morphology - Palliative Medicine: What Every Internist Ought to Know. RHEUMATOLOGY: Acute Monoarticular Arthritis - Osteoarthritis and Polyarticular Arthritis - Systemic Autoimmune Diseases - Systemic Vasculitis - Selected Musculoskeletal Syndromes. PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE: Venous Thromboembolic Disease - Lung Cancer-Obstructive Lung Disease: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Interstitial Lung Disease - Pleural Diseases - Board Simulation in Critical Care Medicine - Pulmonary Function Tests for the Boards. ENDOCRINOLOGY: Thyroid Disorders - Androgenic and Reproductive Disorders - Diabetes Mellitus: Control and Complications- Adrenal Disorders- Pituitary Disorders and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes - Metabolic Bone Disease and Calcium Disorders. NEPHROLOGY AND HYPERTENSION: Acute Renal Failure - Parenchymal Renal Disease - Hallmarks of Essential and Secondary Hypertension- Critical Fluid and Electrolytic Abnormalities in Clinical Practice- Acid-Based Disorders. GASTROENTEROLOGY: Liver Disorders- Pancreatic Diseases - Esophageal Diseases- Peptic Ulcer Disease- Colorectal Carcinoma - Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Diarrhea and Malabsorption. CARDIOLOGY: Coronary Artery Disease - Clinical Electrocardiography - Valvular Heart Disease- Arrhythmias- Adult Congenital Heart Disease- Acute Coronary Syndromes - Dyslipidemia - Heart Failure- Cardiovascular Emergencies. MOCK BOARD SIMULATION: Mock Board Simulation.