Internal Diseases

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

• PULMONOLOGY
• THE MOST IMPORTANT SYMPTOMS OF PULMONARY DISEASES

• OBJECTIVE EXAMINATION
• DIAGNOSTIC METHODS
• PNEUMONIA
• SUPPURATIVE LUNG DISEASE
• OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASES
• RESPIRATORY FAILURE
• PULMONARY CARCINOMA
• PLEURAL EFFUSIONS
• SARCOIDOSIS
• PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

CHAPTER II

• CARDIOLOGY
• EXAMINATION OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
• HEART FAILURE
• RHYTHM AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS
• CHRONIC PULMONARY HEART
• PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM
• RHEUMATISM
• INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
• ACQUIRED HEART DESEASES
• AORTIC VALVE DESEASES
• ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
• STABLE ANGINA
• UNSTABLE ANGINA
• MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
• ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
• CARDIOMYOPATHIS
• MYOCARDITIS
• PERICARDIAL DISEASES
• DISEASES OF THE AORTA
• ATHEROSCLEROSIS
• CONGENITAL HEART DISESES IN ADULTS

CHAPTER III

• GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
• DISEASES OF THE STOMACH
• DISEASES OF THE SMALL INTESTIN
• DISEASES OF THE COLON AND RECTUM
• LIVER DISEASES
• DISEASES OF THE BILIARY SYSTEM
• DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS

CHAPTER IV

• NEPHROLOGY
• ANATOMICAL NOTES, PHYSICAL AND LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS
• KIDNEY BIOPSY
• SYMPTOMS AND SYNDROMES RELATED TO KIDNEY DISEASES
• PRIMARY GLOMERULAR DISEASES. CLASSIFICATION, ETIOLOGY,PATHOGENESIS
• ACUTE POSTREPTOCOCCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
• RAPIDLY PROGRESSING GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
• CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS. PODOCYTOPATHY. IDIOPATHIC
• NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
• GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH MINIMAL CHANGES
• IgM NEPHROPATHY
• FOCAL-SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS
• MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
• MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS AND C3
• NEPHROPATHIES
• IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY (BERGER'S DISEASE)
• SECONDARY SATELLITE GLOMERULOPATHIES. KIDNEY DAMAGE IN SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS
• KIDNEY DAMAGE IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS (SEL)
• KIDNEY DAMAGES IN DIABETES MELLITUS
• KIDNEY DAMAGE IN AMYLOIDOSIS
• GOUTY NEPHROPATHY
• URINARY INFECTIONS
• ACUTE INTERSTITIAL HYPERSENSITIVE NEFRITIS
• CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS
• CONGENITAL AND HERITABLE DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS. AUTOSOMALDOMINANT KIDNEY. POLYCYSTOSIS
• CONGENITAL AND HEREDITARY DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS. ALPORT SYNDROME. FABRI SYNDROME. THIN MEMBRANE DISEASE
• KIDNEY STONE DISEASE. NEPHROCALCINOSIS
• ACUTE KIDNEY INGURY (AKI)
• CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD). KIDNEY FAILURE
• EXTRA-KIDNEY METHODS OF CLEANSING THE BLOOD
• KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

CHAPTER V

• ENDOCRINOLOGY
• DISEASES OF THE GLANDS WITH INTERNAL SECRETION
• INTRODUCTION
• HYPOTALAMUS AND PITUITARY GLAND
• THYROID GLAND
• PARATHYROID GLANDS
• ENDOCRINE PANCREAS
• ADRENAL GLANDS
• MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
• FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
• DISEASES OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS AND PITUITARY GLAND
• DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND
• DISEASES OF THE PARATHYTIC GLANDS
• DISEASES OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS
• DISEASES OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS
• ENDOCRINE DISORDERS IN THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
• ENDOCRINE DISORDERS IN THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
• AUTOIMMUNE POLYGLANDULAR SYNDROMES
• MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA

CHAPTER VI

• HEMATOLOGY
• BASIC DATA ON HEMATOPOIESIS
• EXAMINATION OF A PATIENT WITH HEMATOLOGICAL DISEASE DISEASES OF ERYTHROPOIESIS
• IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
• ANEMIA IN CHRONIC DISEASES (ACD)
• MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA
• FOLATE DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
• BONE MARROW FAILURE HYPO- AND APLASTIC ANEMIA
• HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS. CLASSIFICATION
• CONGENITAL HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS - MEMBRANOPATHIES
• CONGENITAL HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA - ENZYMOPATHIES
• CONGENITAL HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS - HEMOGLOBINOSIS
• CONGENITAL HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS - THALASEMIA
• ACQUIRED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS. ISOMIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS
• MICROANGIOPATHIC HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA
• MALIGNANT DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND THE BLOOD-FORMING ORGANS
• ACUTE MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASES
• MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES
• CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA - PH (+)
• POLYCYTHAEMIA VERA
• ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTEMIA
• OSTEOMYELOFIBROSIS. PRIMARY MYELOPHIBROSIS
• LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS - BASIC DATA
• HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA (MORBUS HODGKIN)
• NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMAS - BASIC DATA
• ACUTE HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS
• DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA (DLBCL)
• MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA
• INDOLENT NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMAS CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
• FOLLICULAR NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA
• MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA. EXTRANODAL LYMPHOMAS OF MUCOSAASSOCIATED
• LYMPHOID TISSUE
• DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF LYMPHADENO - AND SPLENOMEGALIA
• DISEASES OF THE PLASMOCYTIC SERIES. MONOCLONAL
• PARAPROTEINEMIA (GAMAPATHIES)
• MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MYELOMA MULTIPLEX)
• LIGHT CHAIN DEPOSITION DISEASE (LCDD)
• AL-AMYLOIDOSIS
• HEMOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
• COAGULATION AND BLEEDING DISORDERS
• DISEASES OF THE PLATELET SERIES
• DISEASES WITH IMPAIRED PLATELET FUNCTIONS. CONGENITAL AND
• ACQUIRED THROMBOCYTOPATHIES
• CONGENITAL COAGULOPATHIES
• INHIBITORY HEMOPHILIA
• WILLEBRAND'S DISEASE (Morbus von Willebrand)
• VASOPATHY
• DISSEMINATED INTRAVASAL COAGULATION (DIC)
• PRIMARY ACTIVATED FIBRINOLYSIS

CHAPTER VII

• RHEUMATOLOGY
• EXAMINATION OF PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES
• RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (POLYARTHRITIS RHEUMATOIDES)
• ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (SPONDYLITIS ANKYLOSANS)
• PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (ARTHRITIS PSORIATICA)
• GOUT. GOUTY ARTHRITIS (PODAGRA, ARTHRITIS URICA)
• OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA)
• SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS SYSTEMICUS)
• PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS
• AUTOIMMUNE MYOSITES
• SJOGREN SYNDROME
• BEHCET'S DISEASE
• RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA
• GIANT CELL ARTERIITIS
• SYSTEMIC VASCULITIDES
• FIBROMYALGIA
• OSTEOPOROSIS