Overview
Comprehensive text on fat loss, wasting and cachexia in medicine
Reference for general practioners, specialists such as oncologists, infectivologists and geriatricians, as well as for students and nurses interested in this topic
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About this book
Cachexia may well represent the flip side of the tremendous achievements of modern medicine.
Many diseases rapidly leading patients to death just a few years ago, are now better controlled by new therapies, and even if we cannot cure and eradicate them, their natural history has significantly increased by months and years. Although these new therapeutic strategies represent a remarkable advantage over the standards of care, it is impossible to ignore that many more patients are now facing the nutritional consequences of prolonged immunological and metabolic challenges deriving from ongoing diseases and aggressive therapies.
Aim of the volume, written by world-renowned scientists, is to provide the best available evidence on the pathogenesis, clinical features and therapeutic approach of cachexia, and to facilitate the understanding of the complex yet unequivocal clinical role of this syndrome, that truly represents a disease, or, better still, a disease within other different diseases.
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Table of contents (71 chapters)
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Anatomy, Historical Perspective and Epidemiology
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Biochemistry, Physiology and ‘Clinics’ of Adipose Tissue
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The Different Features of Wasting in Humans
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Mantovani is Full Professor of Medical Oncology and Chief of the Division and Laboratory of Medical Oncology at University of Cagliari, School of Medicine, Cagliari, Italy. His research interests include treatment of cancer-related anorexia/cachexia and oxidative stress, combined-modality therapy of human cancers and cancer immunotherapy. He is first author of more than 200 publications in top-rated cancer journals. Many colleagues from all over the world are acting as co-editors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cachexia and Wasting
Book Subtitle: A Modern Approach
Editors: Giovanni Mantovani, Stefan D. Anker, Akio Inui, John E. Morley, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Daniele Scevola, Michael W. Schuster, … Shing-Shing Yeh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0552-5
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Milan 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-0471-9Published: 16 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5797-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-0552-5Published: 06 October 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 758
Topics: Oncology, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Infectious Diseases, Metabolic Diseases