Give your patients the benefit of today's best adrenal endocrinology know-how with The Adrenal Gland, a new derivative book from the same expert endocrinologists responsible for the highly acclaimed two-volume textbook, Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric. Never before available as a stand-alone offering, this compilation of chapters from the leading resource in endocrinology covers all material related to the adrenal gland. By Ashley B. Grossman, BA, BSc, MD, FRCP, FMedSc, Professor of Endocrinology, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom ; J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL and Leslie J. De Groot, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Table of Contents: 1. The Principles, Enzymes, and Pathways of Human Steroidogenesis 2. Glucocorticoid Action: Physiology 3. Glucocorticoid Receptors: Their Mechanisms of Action and Glucocorticoid Resistance 4. Aldosterone: Secretion and Action 5. Glucocorticoid Therapy 6. Adrenal Insufficiency 7. Adrenal Causes of Hypercortisolism 8. Defects of Adrenal Steroidogenesis 9. Adrenarche and Adrenopause 10. Adrenal Gland Imaging 11. Adrenocortical Carcinoma 12. Primary Mineralocorticoid Excess Syndromes and Hypertension 13. Mineralocorticoid Deficiency 14. Pheochromocytoma 15. Adrenal Surgery 16. Cushing’s Syndrome
