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Featuring 450 large full-color illustrations, this comprehensive atlas shows how more than 200 disorders can disrupt the human body's equilibrium. It is designed to help healthcare professionals visualize disease processes, understand the rationales for clinical interventions, and explain to patients how diseases develop and progress.
Introductory chapters illustrate basic pathophysiologic concepts including cells, cancer, infection, genetics, and fluids and electrolytes. Twelve chapters organized by body system cover all major diseases, with illustrations, charts, and brief text on causes, pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatment.
This Third Edition includes eight new disease entries and updated information throughout. A new icon, Complications, highlights the typical progression of untreated disease.
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This atlas provides the user a quick reference for facts about a variety of diseases. Each disorder is succinctly described and illustrated according to the body structure(s) it most affects.
Selected diseases common to each of the body systems are presented in a brief, one-page format with a representative full-color illustration on the opposite page. Each disease is defined and accompanied by a list of causes, a description of the pathological process, a review of the signs and symptoms, common diagnostic tests, andusual treatment options. Of special interest and usefulness is the inclusion of a succinct review of health concepts such as homeostasis, infection, genetics, and fluid and electrolytes. The charts in this section will greatly enhance mastery of this content which is so often difficult for students. The color illustrations that accompany each disease clearly show what body structures are affected. The use of minimal labeling and omission of extraneous descriptors enhances understanding for the learner. Additionally, illustrations are placed on the page opposite of the text so the reader does not have to flip pages to compare the information. It is, of course, not possible to include all diseases that could affect the body in one book. This updated edition does, however, include some of the newer health problems encountered in the past few years such as SARS and the West Nile Virus. The text could be enhanced by including in the table of contents a list of the diseases with each body system. Currently only the body system is listed and the reader must examine the entire section to see if the particular disease is discussed. One final note: the weight of the paper seems much thicker and stiffer than most book pages, making it difficult to keep it open to the page being read.
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