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Diabetes, Obesity and Lipids

Thyroid Disease

Calcium and Bone Disorders

Pituitary Disease

Adrenal Disease

Gonadal Disorders

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Updated 01/07

Endocrinology Reading List

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Textbooks
  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th edition, Braunwald et al, editors. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005.
  • Williams’ Textbook of Endocrinology. 10th edition. P. Reed Larsen et al, editors. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2003. [More pathophysiological/mechanistic orientation]
  • Endocrinology. 5th edition. De Groot LJ & Jameson JL, editors, Saunders, Philadelphia, 2006. [Comprehensive]
    Location: Galter Library Reserve Desk WK 140 E56 2006
  • Ellenberg & Rifkin’s Diabetes Mellitus, 6th edition. Daniel Porte, Jr., Robert S Sherwin, Alain Baron (eds.), McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2003.
    Location: Galter Library Reserve Desk WK 810 E45 2003
    Location: NMH Health Learning Center WK 810 E45 2003
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America. [This is a periodical book series available online through MD Consult and in print at the Galter Library. Each volume is focused on a specific topic. Topics are updated frequently. Clinically oriented.]
Diabetes, Obesity and Lipids
  • Standards of medical care for patients with diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care 2006;29 (Suppl. 1):S4-S42.
  • The Diabetes control and complications trial (DCCT) group. The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med 1993;329(14):977-986.
  • The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study (DCTT/EDIC) Research Group. Intensive Diabetes Treatment and Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes. NEJM 2005;353:2643-53.
  • DeFronzo RA.  Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus.  Med Clin North Am. 2004; 88:787-835, ix. (No direct link to article available. Click on link above, enter DeFronzo in the author field on the left of the screen and click Search.)
  • Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med 2002;346(6):393-403.
  • Turner RC. The UK prospective diabetes study. A review. Diabetes Care 1998;21(Suppl 3):C35-C38. (Not available electronically; available in print at Galter Library.)
  • DeFronzo RA. Pharmacologic therapy for type 2 diabetes. Ann Int Med 1999;131(4):281-303.
  • Hirsch IB.  Insulin analogues.  N Engl J Med. 2005; 352:174-83.
  • DeWitt DE, Hirsch IB.  Outpatient insulin therapy in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: scientific review. JAMA. 2003 289:2254-64.
  • Molitch M.  Management of Dyslipidemias in Patients with Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease.  Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2006; 1:1090-1099
  • Van den Berghe G, Wouters P, Weekers F, Verwaest C, Bruyninckx F, Schetz M, Vlasselaers D, Ferdinande P, Lauwers P. Bouillon R. Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med 2001;345(19):1359-1367.
  • Fajans SS, Bell GI, Polonsky KS. Molecular mechanisms and clinical pathophysiology of maturity-onset diabetes of the young. N Engl J Med 2001;345(13):971-980.
  • Ford ES, Giles WH, Mokdad AH.  Increasing Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among U.S. Adults.  Diabetes Care 2004; 27:2444-2449.
  • Mokdad AH, Ford ES, Bowman BA, Dietz WH, et al.  Prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and obesity-related health risk factors, 2001.  JAMA 2003; 289:76-79.
  • Executive Summary of the third report of the national cholesterol education program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA 2001;285(19): 2486-2509.
  • Stone NJ, Bilek S, Rosenbaum S.  Recent National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Update: Adjustments and Options.  Am J Cardiol 2005; 96[suppl]:53E-59E.
  • Grundy SM, Cleeman JI, Merz CN, et al.  Implications of recent clinical trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines.  Circulation 2004; 110:227-239.
Thyroid Disease
  • Hegedus L.  The Thyroid Nodule.  N Engl J Med 2004; 351:1764-1771.
  • Alexander EK, Hurwitz S, Heering J, et al.  Natural History of Benign Sold and Cystic Thyroid Nodules.  Ann Intern Med 2003; 138:315-318.
  • Tan GH, Gharib H. Thyroid incidentalomas: mangement approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging. Ann Int Med 1997;126(3);226-231.
  • Weetman AP. Graves' disease. N Engl J Med 2000;343(17):1236-1248
  • Burch HB, Wartofsky L. Life-threatening thyrotoxicosis - Thyroid storm. Endocrinol Metab Clinics of N America 1993; 22:263-277. (Not available electronically; available in print at Galter Library.)
  • Cooper DS.  Antithyroid Drugs.  N Engl J Med 2005; 352:905-917.
  • Roberts CG, Ladenson PW.  Hypothyroidism.  Lancet 2004; 363:793-803.
  • Alexander EK, Marqusee E, Lawrence J, et al.  Timing and Magnitude of Increases in Levothyroxine Requirements during Pregnancy in Women with Hypothyroidism.  N Engl J Med 2004; 351:241-249.
  • Dayan CM, Daniels GH. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis. N Engl J Med 1996;335(2):99-106.
  • Basaria S, Cooper DS.  Amiodarone and the thyroid.  Am J Med 2005; 118:706-714.
  • Stathatos N, Wartofsky L.  The euthyroid sick syndrome: is there a physiologic rationale for thyroid hormone treatment?  J Endocrinol Invest 2003; 26(12) :1174-9. (No direct link to article; click on link and search for article in previous issues section.)
  • Burman KD, Wartofsky L. Thyroid function in the intensive care unit setting. Crit Care Clin 2001;17(1):43-57. (No direct link to article available. Click on link above, enter Burman in the author field on the left of the screen and click Search.)
  • Ladenson PW, Peter A. Singer, Kenneth B. Ain, Nandalal Bagchi, S. Thomas Bigos, Elliot G. Levy, Steven A. Smith, Gilbert H. Daniels. American Thyroid Association guidelines for detection of thyroid dysfunction. Arch Intern Med 2000;160(11):1573-1575.
  • Cooper DS, Doherty GM, Haugen BR, Kloos RT, Lee SL, et al.  The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce.  Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer.  Thyroid 2006; 16: 109-142.
  • Mazzaferri EL, Robbins RJ, Spencer CA, Braverman LE, Pacini F, Wartofsky L, Haugen BR, Sherman SI, Cooper DS, Braunstein GD, Lee S, Davies TF, Arafah BM, Ladenson PW, Pinchera A. A consensus report of the role of serum thyroglobulin as a monitoring method for low-risk patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 88:1433-41, 2003.
  • Schlumberger MJ. Papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma. N Engl J Med 1998;338(5):297-306.
Calcium and Bone Disorders
Pituitary Disease
  • Molitch ME, Clemmons DR, Malozowski S, Merriam GR, Shalet SM, Vance ML. Evaluation and treatment of adult growth hormone deficiency: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006;91:1621-1634. 
  • Colao A, Ferone D, Marzullo P, Lombardi G.  Systemic complications of acromegaly: epidemiology, pathogenesis, and management.  Endocrine Rev 2004;25:102-152
  • Strasburger CA et al.  Biochemical assessment and long-term monitoring in patients with acromegaly: statement from a joint consensus conference of The Growth Hormone Research Society and The Pituitary Society.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89:3099-3104.
  • Holdaway IM, Rajasoorya RC, Gamble GD.  Factors influencing mortality in acromegaly.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:667-674, 2004.
  • Clemmons DR, Chihara K, Freda PU et al.  Optimizing control of acromegaly : integrating a growth hormone receptor antagonist into the treatment algorithm.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:4759-4767, 2003.
  • Casanueva FF, Molitch ME, Schlechte JA, Abs R, Bonert V, Bronstein MD, Brue T, Cappabianca P, Colao A, Fahlbusch R, Fideleff H, Hadani M,  Kelly P, Kleinberg D, Laws E, Marek J, Scanlon M, Sobrinho L, Wass J, Giustina A. Guidelines of the Pituitary Society for the diagnosis and management of prolactinomas.  Clin Endocrinol.  2006;65:265-273.
  • Gillam MP, Molitch MP, Lombardi G, Colao A. Advances in the treatment of prolactinomas.  Endocrine Revs 2006;27:485-534.
  • Lindsay JR, Nieman LK.  The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in pregnancy: challenges in disease detection and treatment.  Endocr Rev 2005;26:775-799.
  • Hammer GD, Tyrrell JB, Lamborn KR, Applebury CB, Hannegan ET, Bell S, Rahl R, Lu A, Wilson CB.  Transsphenoidal microsurgery for Cushing’s Disease: initial outcome and long-term results.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89:6348-6357.
  • Sheehan JP, Niranjan A, Sheehan JM, Jane JA, Laws ER, Kondziolka D, Flickinger J, Landolt AM, Loeffler JS, Lunsford LD.  Stereotactic radiosurgery for pituitary adenomas: an intermediate review of its safety, efficacy, and role in the neurosurgical treatment armamentarium.  J Neurosurg 2005;102:678-691.
  • Agha A, Rogers B, Sherlock M, O’Kelly P, Tormey W, Phillips J, Thompson CJ.  Anterior pituitary dysfunction in survivors of traumatic brain injury.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89:4929-4936.
  • Agha A, Sherlock M, Brennan S, O’Connor SA, O’Sullivan E et al.  Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction after irradiation of nonpituitary brain tumors in adults.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005;90;6355-6360.
  • Reynolds RM, Seckl JR.  Hyponatraemia for the clinical endocrinologist. Clin Endocrinol.  2005;63:366-374. 
Adrenal Disease
Gonadal Disorders
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