Endocrinology of Aging: Clinical Aspects in Diagrams and Images

Features:

• Chapters divided according to specific endocrine and metabolic systems, providing evidence-based content regarding what is known about the function of endocrine and metabolic systems altered during the aging process
• Addresses physiological changes that alter the pathophysiology of the clinical picture, explaining the characteristic pathological expressions of hormonal and metabolic disorders in the advanced age
• Editors and authors are clinical endocrinologists, geriatricians, internists and endocrine surgeons, with extensive global experience in clinical and experimental gerontology
• Considers the patient transitioning from young adult to elderly, discussing the endocrinological challenge to discern physiology from pathology
• Focuses on age as an essential factor for diagnostic and endocrine management
• Includes many pictures and diagrams, making it a user-friendly reference guide for practicing physicians

Table Of Contents:

1. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE AGING PROCESS WITH ENDOCRINE AND NUTRITIONAL IMPLICATIONS, AGING AND DISEASE IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
2. PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY AXIS IN THE ELDERLY
3. PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS IN THE ELDERLY
4. VITAMIN D AND CALCIUM DEFICIENCY IN THE ELDERLY
5. SENILE AND POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
6. PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND IN THE ELDERLY: PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES, HYPOTHYROIDISM, AND HYPERTHYROIDISM
7. PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND IN THE ELDERLY: THYROID NODULES, AND SIMPLE GOITER
8. PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND IN THE ELDERLY: THYROID CANCER
9. PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS IN THE ELDERLY
10. MALE HYPOGONADISM IN ADVANCED AGE: PHYSIOLOGY, ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND FUNCTIONAL HYPOGONADISM IN THE ELDERLY
11. MALE HYPOGONADISM IN ADVANCED AGE (THERAPEUTIC CONSIDERATIONS), GYNECOMASTIA IN ADVANCED AGE, BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY AND PROSTATE CANCER (ENDOCRINOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND TREATMENT)
12. MENOPAUSE AS A MANIFESTATION OF AGING
13. ENDOCRINE SURGERY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS
14. BODY COMPOSITION AND METABOLIC CHANGES WITH AGING
15. OBESITY, A CONDITION THAT MIMICS PREMATURE AGING
16. RELATIONSHIPS AMONG FRAILTY, SARCOPENIA AND THE ENDOCRINEMETABOLIC CHANGES OF ADVANCED AGE: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
17. DIABETES MELLITUS IN THE ELDERLY
18. DIABETES MELLITUS AS A RISK FACTOR FOR AGING
19. DYSLIPIDEMIA IN THE ELDERLY
20. ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN THE ELDERLY, CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT OF MALNUTRITION IN THE ELDERLY