CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Study Guide

Case-based coverage of 80 must-know diseases and disordersAdd the expertise of CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment to your exam review!For more than 70 years, professors, students, and clinicians have trusted LANGE for high-quality, current, concise medical information in a convenient, affordable, portable format.

Whether for coursework, clerkships, USMLE prep, specialty board review, or patient care, there's a LANGE book that guarantees success. Derived from CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, the world's most popular annual medical book, this unique study guide delivers case analysis of 80 of the most common topics in internal medicine.

It providesa comprehensive and well organized synopsis of each topic, making it an essential study partner for a variety of examinations, including the USMLE Step 2, medicine clerkship shelf exams, ABIM internal medicine boards and recertification exams, adult and family nurse practitioner certification examination, and physician assistant national certifying exam.

For practitioners, this quick reference covers patient care for 80 of the clinical problems they are most likely to encounter in daily practice. Each topic covered in CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment Study Guide is presented in a consistent, easy-to-read, in-depth manner that emphasizes problem solving.

The topics were carefully selected based on their importance to the field of internal medicine and are designed to enhance your ability to think through a typical case in a logical, step-by-step fashion. Each topic includes a typical patient presentation and:Learning ObjectivesSalient FeaturesSymptoms and SignsDifferential DiagnosisLaboratory, Radiology, and Procedural FindingsTreatmentOutcomesWhen to Refer and When to AdmitPubMed references to the most current and pertinent MEDLINE articlesThere is no easier or faster way to sharpen your understanding of key concepts in clinical reasoning and problem solving, and to brush up on essential clinical facts than this one-of-a-kind case-based review. CASE-BASED COVERAGE THAT SPANS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF INTERNAL MEDICINESkin DisordersPulmonary/Ear, Nose, and Throat DisordersHeart/Hypertension/Lipid DisordersHematologic DisordersGastrointestinal/Liver/Pancreas DisordersGynecologic/Urologic DisordersMusculoskeletal DisordersKidney/Electrolyte DisordersNervous System/Psychiatric DisordersEndocrine/Metabolic DisordersInfectious Disorders