Supportive care for the urology patient
By: edited by Richard W. Norman and David Currow.
Contributors: Norman, Richard W.; Currow, David.
Series: Supportive care series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780198529415
Subjects: Urinary organs -- Diseases -- Palliative treatment.; Urologic Diseases -- therapy.; Chronic Disease -- therapy.; Palliative Care -- methods.; Quality of Life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Introduction to supportive care issues for the urology patient / Richard W. Norman; Quality of life measurements / Robert A. Cummins and Anna L.D. Lau; Self-help strategies / Rodney H. Breau; Role of the interdisciplinary team in urological supportive care / Reena Karani and Diane E. Meier; Psychological and spiritual support / Aru Narayanasamy; The patient and family / Lorna Butler; The bioinformatics of integrative medicine in urology / Ernest Lawrence Rossi; The patient presenting with hematuria / Darrel E. Drachenburg and Kamal Mattar; The patient presenting with urinary retention / Nicholas J. Hegarty, Ciaran F. Healy, and John M Fitzpatrick; The patient presenting with urinary incontinence / Hugh Flood and Jane MacDonald; The patient presenting with neurological disease affecting the urinary tract / Scott MacDiarmid; The patient presenting with sexual dysfunction / Carin V. Hopps and John P. Mulhall; The patient presenting with androgen deficiency / Alvaro Morales; The patient presenting with requirements for a urinary diversion or reservoir / Zbigniew Wolski; The patient presenting with recalcitrant urinary tract infections / Lindsay E. Nicolle; The patient presenting with chronic prostatitis / Ashley McLellan and Peter A.M. Anderson; The patient presenting with genitourinary AIDS / Paul Toren and Wendy Wobeser; The patient presenting with painful bladder syndrome / Jerzy B. Gajewski; Supportive care for the renal transplant patient / David Nicol and Catherine Martin; The patient presenting with a genitourinary prosthesis / Gregory G. Bailly; The patient presenting with benign genitourinary pain / Allan B. Patrick; The patient presenting with malignant genitourinary pain / Florian Heid and Jürgen Jage; Evaluation and treatment of the infertile male / M.A. Fischer; The patient presenting with an overactive adrenal gland / Franco Mantero and Nora Albiger; The patient presenting with frequently recurring urinary tract calculi / Hans-Göran Tiselius; The patient presenting with ureteric obstruction / Villus Marshall; Supportive care for the urology patient and family in the future / David C. Currow.