The Endocrine Response to Acute Illness (Frontiers of Hormone Research)

Interest in the pathogenesis and phenomenology of serious critical illness has increased in the late 1990s, not least because of the extremely high morbidity and mortality associated with septic shock in critically ill patients, and its impact on the utilization of clinical resources. This volume collects the work of a distinguished panel of intern ational contributors, in describing and overviewing the current studies on endocrine changes in critically ill patients. Topics include the regulation of growth hormone secretion and glucose metabolism.