Medicine at a Glance (eBook)

Core Cases

Patrick Davey, William Ries, Alex Pitcher (Herausgeber)

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2025 | 2. Auflage
761 Seiten
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
9781119430421 (ISBN)

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The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners, for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.

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A learning resource containing 250+ cases with self-assessment exercises to aid understanding and test student knowledge

Written to complement the bestselling Medicine at a Glance, Fifth Edition, this newly revised and updated Second Edition of Medicine at a Glance: Core Cases contains more than 250 cases with self-assessment exercises that aid understanding and test your knowledge. Following the structure of the main textbook, each chapter presents several clinical cases based on the chapter's content.

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Patrick Davey is a Consultant Cardiologist at Northampton General Hospital, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford University.

William Ries is a resident doctor in Internal Medicine in the Oxford Deanery.

Alex Pitcher is a Consultant Cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals and a Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at New College, Oxford.

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List of Abbreviations

AAA AAION

abdominal aortic aneurysm arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy

Ab

antibody

ABG	arterial blood gas

ABPA	allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

AC	acromioclavicular

ACE AChR

angiotensin‐converting enzyme acetylcholine receptors

ACS	acute coronary syndrome

ACTH	adrenocorticotrophic hormone

ADH	antidiuretic hormone

ADP	adenosine diphosphate

ADPKD

autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

AF	atrial fibrillation

AFB	acid‐fast bacilli

α‐FP	α‐fetoprotein

Ag AIDP

antigen acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

AIDS	acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AIH	autoimmune hepatitis

AIHA	autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

AION ALI

anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy acute lung injury

ALL	acute lymphoid leukaemia

ALP	alkaline phosphatase

ALT	alanine transaminase

AMA	antimitochondrial antibody

AML	acute myeloid leukaemia

ANA	antinuclear antibody

ANCA	antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody

ANF	antinuclear factor

APC	activated protein C

APKD APML

adult polycystic kidney disease acute promyelocytic leukaemia

APS	antiphospholipid syndrome

APTT	activated partial thromboplastin time

AR	aortic regurgitation

ARDS	adult respiratory distress syndrome

AS	ankylosing spondylitis

ASD	atrial septal defect

ASO	antistreptolysin O

AST	aspartate transaminase

α 1‐AT

α1‐antitrypsin

ATLL	adult T‐cell lymphoma/leukaemia

ATN	acute tubular necrosis

ATP	adenosine triphosphate

AV	atrioventricular

AVNRT

atrioventricular nodal re‐entrant tachycardia

AVRT	atrioventricular re‐entrant tachycardia

AXR	abdominal X‐ray

BAL	bronchoalveolar lavage

BBV	blood‐borne viruses

BCC	basal cell carcinoma

BCE	basal cell epithelioma

BCG	bacilli Calmette–Guérin

BCSP	bowel cancer screening programme

bd	bis die (twice a day)

BDZ	benzodiazepine

BE	base excess

BLS	basic life support

BMD	bone marrow density

BMI	body mass index

BMZ	basement membrane zone

BNF	British National Formulary

BOOP	bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia

BP	blood pressure

BRVO	branch retinal vein occlusion

CABG	coronary artery bypass graft

CAD	coronary artery disease

CAH	congenital adrenal hyperplasia

CBD	common bile duct, cortico‐basal degeneration

CBT	cognitive behavioural therapy

CCDC	consultant in communicable disease control

CCP	cyclic citrullinated peptide

CCU	coronary care unit

CGD	chronic granulomatous disease

CEA	carcinoembryonic antigen

CF	cystic fibrosis

CFA	cystic fibrosis alveolitis

CFS	chronic fatigue syndrome

CFTR	cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator

cGMP	cyclic guanosine monophosphate

CHAD	cold haemagglutinin disease

CHART

continuous hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy

CHD	congenital heart disease

CIDP	chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy

CIDP	chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy

CJD	Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

CK CKD

creatine kinase chronic kidney disease

CLL	chronic lymphoblastic leukaemia

CMC	carpometacarpal

CML	chronic myeloid leukaemia

CMV	cytomegalovirus

CNS	central nervous system

CO 2	carbon dioxide

COAD	chronic obstructive airway disease

COPD	chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

COX	cyclo‐oxygenase

cP	centipoise

CPAP	continuous positive airway pressure

CPK CPM

creatine phosphokinase central pontine myelinolysis

CPR	cardiopulmonary resuscitation

CREST

calcinosis, Raynaud's, oesophagitis, sclerodactyly telangiectasia

CRH	corticotrophin‐releasing hormone

CRP	C‐reactive protein

CRVO	central retinal vein occlusion

CS	Churg–Strauss

CSM	carotid sinus massage

CSF	cerebrospinal fluid

CT	computed tomography

CTPA	computerised tomographic pulmonary angiography

CVA	cerebrovascular accident

CVID	common variable immunodeficiency

CVP	central venous pressure

CWP	coal worker's pneumoconiosis

CXR	chest X‐ray

CYP	cytochrome P450

D&V	diarrhoea and vomiting

...

DC	direct current

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2025
• Reihe/Serie: At a Glance
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin
• Schlagworte: cardiovascular cases • dermatology cases • emergency cases • endocrinology cases • gastroenterology cases • hematology cases • infectious disease cases • neurology cases • oncology cases • renal cases • respiratory cases
• ISBN-13: 9781119430421 / 9781119430421