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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bricker, J. Timothy
• Merrick, Joav
• Omar, Hatim A

Titel

Adults with Childhood Illnesses: Considerations for Practice

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Germany: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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. This book provides a resource for all health care providers in order to help with caring for such adult patients.J. Timothy Bricker, University of Texas Medical School, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, United States; Hatim A. Omar, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States; Joav Merrick, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Health Services, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel.