cover -- copyright -- authors -- PREFACE -- Contents -- RAPID ACCESS GUIDE -- How to use the Rapid Access Guide to Internal Medicine -- CARDIOLOGY -- GASTROENTEROLOGY -- NEPHROLOGY -- RHEUMATOLOGY -- ONCOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- PULMONARY MEDICINE -- ENDOCRINOLOGY -- NEUROLOGY -- PART 1 PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL PRACTICE -- SECTION I HUMANISM AND ETHICS -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNAL MEDICI NE AS A DISCIPLINE -- Chapter 2 CLINICAL MEDICINE, CLINICAL ETHICS, AND PHYSICIANS'PROFESSIONALISM -- SECTION II BASIC MECHANISMS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE -- Chapter 3 THE GENOME PROJECT AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS -- Chapter 4 CELL GROWTH, DIFFERENTIATION, AND DEATH -- Chapter 5 PRINCIPLES OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE -- Chapter 6 INFLAMMATION: CELLS, CYTOKINES, AND OTHER MEDIATORS -- Chapter 7 MECHANISMS OF HORMONE ACTION -- Chapter 8 PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION -- Chapter 9 PRINCIPLES OF RENAL REGULATION OF FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES -- Chapter 10 PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE -- Chapter 11 VASCULAR BIOLOGY -- Chapter 12 DISORDERS OF LIPID METABOLISM -- Chapter 13 PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS -- Chapter 14 SOME FUNCTIONAL PATHWAYS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM -- Chapter 15 BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF AGING AND LONGEVITY -- Chapter 16 CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY OF AGING -- Chapter 17 HEALTH CARE IMPLICATIONS OF AN AGING SOCIETY -- Chapter 18 HOST-MICROBE INTERACTION -- Chapter 19 ETIOLOGY OF MALIGNANT DISEASE -- Chapter 20 MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF NEOPLASIA -- Chapter 21 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALIGNANT DISEASE -- Chapter 22 PREVENTION OF NEOPLASIA -- Chapter 23 TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY -- SECTION III APPROACH TO COMMON PRIMARY CARE ISSUES -- Chapter 24 PERIODIC HEALTH EVALUATION -- Chapter 25 PREOPERATIVE MEDICAL EVALUATION -- Chapter 26 IMMUNIZATIONS -- Chapter 27 INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRAVELER.

Chapter 28 CANCER SCREENING AND EARLY DETECTION -- Chapter 29 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE -- Chapter 30 SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION -- Chapter 31 APPROACHES TO HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA AND OTHER ABNORMAL LIPIDPROFILES -- Chapter 32 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CHEST PAIN (CARDIAC ANDNONCARDIAC) -- Chapter 33 SMOKING AND SMOKING CESSATION -- Chapter 34 APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF ALCOHOL ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE -- Chapter 35 APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE -- Chapter 36 OBESITY -- Chapter 37 ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND EATING DISORDERS -- Chapter 38 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH UNINTENTIONAL WEIGHT LOSS -- Chapter 39 DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND OTHER PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS -- Chapter 40 CARE OF THE DYING PATIENT -- SECTION IV PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL EVALUATION -- Chapter 41 THE CLINICAL APPROACH TO THE PATIENT -- Chapter 42 PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- Chapter 43 EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE -- Chapter 44 COMPUTERS IN SUPPORT OF CLINICAL DECISION MAKING -- Chapter 45 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 46 ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICIAN PERFORMANCE IN THE NEW CENTURY HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter 47 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND RISK MANAGEMENT -- SECTION V RELATED MEDICAL DISCIPLINES -- Chapter 48 ADOLESCENT MEDICINE -- Chapter 49 PRINCIPLES OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE -- Chapter 50 MEDICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY -- Chapter 51 MEDICAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY -- Chapter 52 PRINCIPLES OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE -- Chapter 53 PRINCIPLES OF SPORTS MEDICINE -- Chapter 54 PRINCIPLES OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE -- Chapter 55 PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY -- Chapter 56 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: PREVALENCE, COST, AND USEFULNESS -- SECTION VI SELECTED MEDICAL EMERGENCIES -- Chapter 57 GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN THE APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH AN ACUTEEMERGENCY -- Chapter 58 ANIMAL BITES AND STINGS -- Chapter 59 NEAR DROWNING.

Chapter 60 TREATMENT OF ANAPHYLAXIS -- Chapter 61 CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION -- Chapter 62 HYPERTHERMIA AND HYPOTHERMIA -- Chapter 63 IONIZING RADIATION INJURIES -- PART 2 CARDIOLOGY -- SECTION IAPPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS -- Chapter 64 ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE CARDIAC HISTORY AND PHYSICALEXAMINATION -- Chapter 65 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CHEST PAIN -- Chapter 66 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HEART FAILURE -- Chapter 67 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS -- Chapter 68 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HEART MURMURS -- Chapter 69 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH SYNCOPE -- Chapter 70 APPROACH TO THE PREGNANT PATIENT WITH HEART DISEASE -- Chapter 71 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HYPOTENSION AND SHOCK -- SECTION II DISORDERS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM -- Chapter 72 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE -- Chapter 73 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION -- Chapter 74 MYOCARDIAL DISEASES -- Chapter 75 TUMORS OF THE HEART -- Chapter 76 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS -- Chapter 77 VALVULAR HEART DISEASE -- Chapter 78 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE IN THE ADULT -- Chapter 79 PERICARDIAL DISEASES -- Chapter 80 PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND COR PULMONALE -- Chapter 81 VASCULAR MEDICINE -- Chapter 82 GENETICS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM -- SECTION III DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES IN CARDIOVASCULARDISEASES -- Chapter 83 CARDIOVASCULAR RADIOLOGY -- Chapter 84 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, EXERCISE STRESS TESTING, AND AMBULATORYMONITORING -- Chapter 85 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 86 RADIONUCLIDE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE TECHNIQUES -- Chapter 87 DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CATHETERIZATION -- Chapter 88 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TESTING -- Chapter 89 PRINCIPLES OF CARDIAC CONDITIONING AND REHABILITATION -- Chapter 90 CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS -- Chapter 91 USE OF ANTICOAGULANT DRUGS -- Chapter 92 PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF CARDIAC SURGERY.

Chapter 93 MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE CARDIAC TRANSPLANT PATIENT -- PART 3 GASTROENTEROLOGY -- SECTION I APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH DIGESTIVE AND HEPATOBILIARYDISORDERS -- Chapter 94 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH DYSPHAGIA -- Chapter 95 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN -- Chapter 96 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN -- Chapter 97 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ACUTE ABDOMEN -- Chapter 98 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH NAUSEA AND VOMITING -- Chapter 99 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH DIARRHEA -- Chapter 100 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CONSTIPATION, FECAL INCONTINENCE,AND GAS -- Chapter 101 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH AN ABDOMINAL OR RECTAL MASS -- Chapter 102 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING -- Chapter 103 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH JAUNDICE -- Chapter 104 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ABNORMAL LIVER CHEMISTRIES -- Chapter 105 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE ANDFULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE -- SECTION II ADISORDERS OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT -- Chapter 106 DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS -- Chapter 107 GASTRODUODENAL ULCER DISEASE AND GASTRITIS -- Chapter 108 MOTOR DISORDERS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT -- Chapter 109 IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME -- Chapter 110 DISORDERS OF DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION -- Chapter 111 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE -- Chapter 112 MESENTERIC VASCULAR DISEASES -- Chapter 113 GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS -- Chapter 114 GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES WITH AN IMMUNE BASIS -- Chapter 115 UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS -- Chapter 116 COLORECTAL NEOPLASIA -- SECTION IIB DISORDERS OF THE PANCREAS, LIVER, AND BILIARY TRACT -- Chapter 117 PANCREATITIS -- Chapter 118 PANCREATIC CANCER AND GUT NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS -- Chapter 119 VIRAL HEPATITIS -- Chapter 120 AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS AND PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS -- Chapter 121 ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASES -- Chapter 122 DRUG-INDUCED HEPATIC INJURY.

Chapter 123 METABOLIC, GRANULOMATOUS, AND INFILTRATIVE DISORDERS OF THELIVER -- Chapter 124 GALLSTONES AND CHOLECYSTITIS -- Chapter 125 BILIARY TRACT DISEASE -- Chapter 126 HEPATOBILIARY NEOPLASMS -- SECTION III DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES IN DIGESTIVE ANDHEPATOBILIARY DISORDERS -- Chapter 127 ENDOSCOPIC DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY -- Chapter 128 ABDOMINAL AND ALIMENTARY TRACT IMAGING AND INTERVENTIONALRADIOLOGY -- Chapter 129 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- Chapter 130 PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION -- Chapter 131 LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS -- Chapter 132 LIVER TRANSPLANTATION -- PART 4 NEPHROLOGY -- SECTION I APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH RENAL AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS -- Chapter 133 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH RENAL DISEASE -- Chapter 134 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HEMATURIA -- Chapter 135 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH PROTEINURIA AND NEPHROTICSYNDROME -- Chapter 136 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH DYSURIA AND PYURIA -- Chapter 137 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH POLYURIA OR NOCTURIA -- Chapter 138 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH URINARY RETENTION ANDOBSTRUCTION -- Chapter 139 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH NEPHROLITHIASIS -- Chapter 140 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH OLIGURIA AND ACUTE RENAL FAILURE -- Chapter 141 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE -- Chapter 142 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH VOLUME DEPLETION ANDDEHYDRATION -- Chapter 143 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH EDEMA -- Chapter 144 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HYPONATREMIA -- Chapter 145 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HYPERNATREMIA -- Chapter 146 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HYPOKALEMIA -- Chapter 147 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HYPERKALEMIA -- Chapter 148 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ALTERED MAGNESIUM CONCENTRATION -- Chapter 149 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ACID-BASE ABNORMALITIES -- SECTION II DISORDERS OF THE KIDNEY.

Chapter 150 IMMUNE-MEDIATED GLOMERULOPATHIES.