Adults with Childhood Illnesses : : Considerations for Practice / / ed. by J. Timothy Bricker, Hatim A. Omar, Joav Merrick.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Alegria, Jorge R.; Alexander, Craig.; Anstead, Michael I.; Aspler, Shoshana.; Bay, Carolyn.; Bayliffand, Sherry.; Bezold, Louis I.; Bricker, J. Timothy.; Bricker, Lee A.; Chishti, Aftab S.; Danov, Zoran.; Daub, Ashley.; Fuchs, Brian S.; Grenier, Michelle A.; Greydanus, Donald E.; Haydon, Richard C.; Hayes, Don Jr.; Huff, Marlene B.; Kamboj, Manmohan K.; Kandel, Isack.; Kiessling, Stefan G.; Lotan, Meir.; Merrick, Joav.; Morad, Mohammed.; Moscow, Jeffrey A.; Noonan, Jacqueline A.; Omar, Hatim A.; Patel, Dilip R.; Peterson, Susan M.; Radulescu, Vlad C.; Raskas, Mordechai.; Reidand, Carol.; Rogers, William B.; Schneider, Douglas J.; Strup, Stephen E.; Veling, Maria C.; Younes, Abbas.; Yozwiak, John A.; Ziada, Ali M.
• MitwirkendeR: Alegria, R.,; Alexander, Craig,; Anstead, Michael I.,; Aspler, Shoshana,; Bay, Carolyn,; Bayliffand, Sherry,; Bezold, Louis I.,; Bricker, J. Timothy,; Bricker, Lee A.,; Chishti, Aftab S.,; Danov, Zoran,; Daub, Ashley,; Fuchs, Brian S.,; Grenier, Michelle A.,; Greydanus, Donald E.,; Haydon, Richard C.,; Hayes, Don Jr.,; Huff, Marlene B.,; Kamboj, Manmohan K.,; Kandel, Isack,; Kiessling, Stefan G.,; Lotan, Meir,; Merrick, Joav,; Morad, Mohammed,; Moscow, Jeffrey A.,; Noonan, Jacqueline A.,; Omar, Hatim A.,; Patel, Dilip R.,; Peterson, Susan M.,; Radulescu, Vlad C.,; Raskas, Mordechai,; Reidand, Carol,; Rogers, William B.,; Schneider, Douglas J.,; Strup, Stephen E.,; Veling, Maria C.,; Younes, Abbas,; Yozwiak, John A.,; Ziada, Ali M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bricker, J. Timothy,; Merrick, Joav,; Omar, Hatim A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Health, Medicine and Human Development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Authors index -- Introduction -- 1 Adults with childhood illnesses -- Childhood into Adulthood -- 2 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Epidemiology, assessment and treatment among children, adolescents, and adults -- 3 Adults with cystic fi brosis -- 4 Childhood asthma into adult years -- 5 Cyanotic congenital heart defects in adulthood -- 6 Obstructive and regurgitant cardiac lesions in adults who had childhood heart disease -- 7 Adults with left-to-right cardiac shunts and with shunts treated in childhood -- 8 Transition of pediatric endocrine patients to adult care -- 9 Adolescents and adults with inborn errors of metabolism -- 10 Grownups who had kidney disease in childhood -- 11 Adult survivors of childhood cancer -- 12 Adults with genetic syndromes -- 13 Adult considerations of pediatric urologic care -- 14 Adult patients with childhood anemias -- 15 Transition from pediatric to adult care: Social and family issues -- 16 Disabled women and reproductive healthcare in the USA -- 17 Adults with congenital bleeding disorders -- 18 Children with allergic disease as adults -- 19 Aging with intellectual disability: Current health issues -- 20 Rett syndrome into adulthood -- Acknowledgements -- 21 About the editors -- 22 About the Kentucky Children’s Hospital at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA -- 23 About the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA -- 24 About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel -- Index