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Pathophysiology
Succeed in your pathophysiology text with this 9th edition of
Porth’s
Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States
. Captivating and
easy-to understand, this proven book provides comprehensive, nursing-
focused coverage designed to help you grasp both the physical and
psychological aspects of altered health.
Features
•
NEW! Advanced 3D narrated animations
address the most
clinically relevant and difficult to understand disorders (one for each
system) and the two most essential systems disorders.
•
NEW!
Fourteen engaging, unit-opening
case studies
put a real face
on pathophysiology and focus on relating the clinical presentation
to the underlying pathophysiology.
•
NEW!
The
revamped art program
features over 600 illustrations
that are either new, or have been extensively modified and new
clinical manifestation figures for selected disorders.
•
NEW!
Chapter-ending
review exercises
reinforce student’s
understanding of chapter content.
•
NEW! Student-friendly presentation
includes concepts that
build on one another, words defined as content is presented, and
concepts from physiology, biochemistry, physics, and other sciences
reviewed along the way.
•
NEW!
“Chunked”
content encourages students to pause and
review salient points using the easily-identified section-opening
Objectives and section-ending Summaries.
•
NEW! Key Concepts Boxes
help readers retain and utilize
text information by providing a mechanism to incorporate text
information into a larger conceptual unit, as opposed to memorizing
a string of related and unrelated facts.
•
NEW!
Helpful lists of common suffixes and prefixes, normal
laboratory values in both conventional and SI units, and a
comprehensive glossary are provided for quick reference.
• Prepare your students for clinical practice with the unparalleled
coverage of disease processes that make this text the most
comprehensive pathophysiology text available.
• Increase your students’ understanding of key concepts with the
updated and revised full-color art program that illustrates the
clinical manifestations of diseases and disease processes.
• Help your student find the information they need fast with
the book’s consistent presentation of each disease with
pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and evaluation and
treatment.
Table of Contents
Unit 1:
Concepts of Health and
Disease
Unit 2:
Cell Function and Growth
Unit 3:
Disorders of Integrative
Function
Unit 4:
Infection, Inflammation, and
Immunity
Unit 5:
Disorders of Neural Functions
Unit 6:
Disorders of Special Sensory
function
Unit 7:
Disorders of the
Hematopoietics system
Unit 8:
Disorders of Cardiovascular
Function
Unit 9:
Disorders of Respiratory
Function
Unit 10:
Disorders of Renal Function
and Fluids & Electrolytes
Unit 11:
Disorders of Gastrointestinal
Function
Unit 12:
Disorders of Endocrine
Function
Unit 13:
Disorders of Genitourinary
and Reproductive Function
Abridged to fit…
Porth’s Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States,
Ninth Edition, International Edition
Sheila Grossman
978-1-4511-4599-1 • October 2013 • Hardbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 1280 pp. • 637 Illus. • 88Tables
978-1-4511-4600-4 • North American Edition: Available in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands only
Study Guide for Porth’s Pathophysiology:
Concepts of Altered Health States, Ninth Edition
Sheila Grossman
978-1-4511-8272-9 •September2013 •Softbound •8.375”x10.875” •416pp.
available