Product Description: Complex abdominal wall hernias and complex abdominal wall defects, including stomas or the complications associated with any of the above, are common and challenging for surgeons. The lack of high quality evidence leaves surgeons without clear guidance regarding the selection of technique or material to be used when treating these serious problem...read more

Product Description: IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Science...read more

Product Description: The chapters in this book vary from methods of assessing and monitoring nutritional status to those of the use of intravenous and enternal nutritional support. Practical chapters define laparoscopic placement of feeding tubes as well as the use of a variety of nutritional substrates, which can be administered in different clinical scenarios...read more

Product Description: Much has been learned, great developments have occurred, and so much has been written about cancer and transplantation in the last 2-3 decades. Yet, to the author's knowledge, no monograph or book has addressed nutrition support of cancer and transplant patients together...read more

Product Description: The support of critically ill patients is focused on respiration, cardiac function, renal function and the treatment of intercurrent or primary infection. However, nothing takes priority over metabolic support to sustain the possibility of recovery and to maintain the physiologic capacity for response although a thorough understanding of the complex metabolic alterations which occur following major trauma and during sepsis can provide the foundation for developing an effective nutritional prescription for each individual patient...read more

Product Description: Written by authors in the field of amino acids and nutritional support, this text brings together current knowledge in basic research and clinical application of amino acids in critically ill patients and patients with cancer. Topics covered include amino acid requirements of patients with sepsis and multiple organ systems failure, immunologic aspects of amino acids, current and potential applications of biosynthetic human growth hormone, the rationale for the use of specific amino acids and their metabolites in surgical and trauma patients, and a profile of amino acids and possible interventions in liver failure and cancer patients...read more