Practical Algorithms in Pediatric Endocrinology: (Practical Pediatrics. Series Editor: Z. Hochberg)

This book is aimed at adult and pediatric endocrinologists, general practitioners and pediatricians, trainees in adult and pediatric endocrinology who are faced daily with the clinical challenges presented by children and adolescents with endocrine disorders. The objective is to provide rational, updated and evidence-based algorithms to guide the physician through the differential diagnoses in pediatric endocrinology. The pillars of the medical approach such as history, physical examination, laboratory and radiological investigations are included synthetically in each algorithm with a focus on the indispensable steps to achieve the correct diagnosis and start the appropriate therapy. The introduction of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized the diagnostic approach to the child with endocrine diseases, and an appropriate focus on genetics has been included in this edition. This 4th fully rewritten edition of Practical Algorithms in Pediatric Endocrinology contains flow charts tackling the diagnostic workup of the most frequent pediatric endocrine disorders. Each step of the algorithms has a reference number quoted in the paired page with insights into the evidence and rationale supporting thestatements. Finally, an essential bibliography is included in each chapter.

Algorithms provide a logical, concise and cost-effective approach to medical reasoning: utilizing a concise, step-by-step approach based upon clues from the history, physical examination and laboratory studies, algorithms help avoid excessive unnecessary procedures and testing. The 3rd, revised edition of Practical Algorithms in Pediatric Endocrinology deals with practical issues of child growth, puberty, diseases of the endocrine glands, sexual differentiation, as well as aberrations of water, electrolyte, mineral and carbohydrate metabolism. Fifty-six clinical issues are covered by an algorithmic approach, breaking down long lists and tables of differential diagnosis into smaller, more manageable ones. Common clinical symptoms, signs and laboratory abnormalities are classified as they present themselves at the patient's bedside. This book is aimed at general practitioners and pediatricians, in particular those who are not exposed to pediatric endocrine problems on a daily basis, and at trainees in endocrinology and pediatric endocrinology as they acquire familiarity with clinical problem solving to make rational choices when facing clinical dilemmas.