Medicine at a Glance

Core Cases
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-43051-3
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners, for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.

Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond.

Everything you need to know about Medicine… at a Glance!

A learning resource containing 250+ cases with self-assessment exercises to aid understanding and test student knowledge

Written to complement the bestselling Medicine at a Glance, Fifth Edition, this newly revised and updated Second Edition of Medicine at a Glance: Core Cases contains more than 250 cases with self-assessment exercises that aid understanding and test your knowledge. Following the structure of the main textbook, each chapter presents several clinical cases based on the chapter’s content.

The use of text, images, and diagrams in answer explanations caters for different learning styles and provides intuitive, targeted information to support the decision-making process in selecting answers.

Medicine at a Glance: Core Cases is an essential learning aid for students preparing for exams and clinical practice. This text is also fully updated for the UK AKT.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitcher, Alex

Davey, Patrick

Ries, William

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi

List of Contributors vii

List of Abbreviations ix

1 Cardiovascular: Cases and Questions 1

Answers 9

2 Respiratory: Cases and Questions 19

Answers 23

3 Gastroenterology: Cases and Questions 28

Answers 38

4 Renal: Cases and Questions 48

Answers 52

5 Endocrinology: Cases and Questions 59

Answers 64

6 Infectious Disease: Cases and Questions 71

Answers 82

7 Haematology: Cases and Questions 93

Answers 102

8 Oncology: Cases and Questions 112

Answers 117

9 Neurology: Cases and Questions 122

Answers 128

10 Ophthalmology: Cases and Questions 137

Answers 141

11 Rheumatology: Cases and Questions 145

Answers 148

12 Dermatology: Cases and Questions 153

Answers 159

13 Other Emergencies: Cases and Questions 165

Answers 173

14 The Acutely Unwell Patient: Cases and Questions 178

Answers 181

Index 184

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Davey is a Consultant Cardiologist at Northampton General Hospital, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford University.

William Ries is a resident doctor in Internal Medicine in the Oxford Deanery.

Alex Pitcher is a Consultant Cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals and a Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at New College, Oxford.