Adults with childhood illnesses : considerations for practice / by J. Timothy Bricker, Hatim A. Omar, Joav Merrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bricker, J. Timothy.

Contributor:

Omar, Hatim A.

Merrick, Joav, 1950-

Series:

Health, medicine, and human development.

Health, medicine, and human development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chronic diseases.

Adulthood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just a few decades ago, children born with significant congenital anomalies or genetic and metabolic diseases perished at an early age and very few survived into their teens and even less into adulthood. Congenital heart disease, major errors in metabolism, cancer, cystic fibrosis and many other major diseases were fatal. Because of that many physicians in adult primary care did not have the opportunity to see patients with these problems and thus unable to learn how to care for them. In this book, we have recruited highly qualified and experienced physicians to compile what is to the best of our knowledge, the first book dealing entirely with the issue of children's diseases in adults. Our goal is to provide a resource for all health care providers in order to help with caring for such adult patients. We believe that it will be valuable to all health care providers who provide care to adults with children's diseases. To our knowledge, there is no such resource available for practitioners which will make this book desirable.

Contents:

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder : epidemiology, assessment, and treatment / John A. Yozwiak

Adults with cystic fibrosis / Michael I. Anstead

Childhood asthma into adult years / Don Hayes and Zoran Danov

Cyanotic congenital heart defects in adulthood / J. Timothy Bricker and Jorge Alegria

Obstructive and regurgitant cardiac lesions in adults who had childhood heart disease / Douglas J. Schneider

Adults with left-to-right cardiac shunts and with shunts treated in childhood / Craig Alexander and Lou Bezold

Transition of pediatric endocrine patients to adult care / Manmohan K. Kamboj ... [et al.]

Adolescents and adults with inborn errors of metabolism / Carolyn Bay, Carol Reid, and Ashley Daub

Grownups who had kidney disease in childhood / Aftab S. Chishti and Stefan G. Kiessling

Adult survivors of childhood cancer / Sherry Bayliff and Jeffrey A. Moscow

Adults with genetic syndromes / Jacqueline A. Noonan and Michelle A. Grenier

Adult considerations of pediatric urologic care / Stephen E. Strup, Ali M. Ziada, and William B. Rogers

Adults patients with childhood anemias / Vlad Calin Radulescu and Jeffrey A. Moscow

Transition from pediatric to adult care : social and family issues / Jacqueline A. Noonan

Disabled women and reproductive health care in the United States / Marlene Belew Huff

Adults with congenital bleeding disorders / Susan M. Peterson, Vlad C. Radulescu, and Jeffrey A. Moscow

Children with allergic disease as adults / Maria C. Veling, Abbas Younes, and Richard C. Haydon

Aging with intellectual disability : current health issues / Joav Merrick ... [et al.]

Rett syndrome into adulthood / Meir Lotan ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613400512

9781283400510

1283400510

9783110255683

3110255685

OCLC:

757261229