Drug-Induced Diseases: Prevention, Detection, and Management

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This comprehensive resource provides a detailed analysis of how to identify, prevent, and manage drug-induced diseases. Edited by James E. Tisdale and Douglas A. Miller, with contributions from experts distinguished in their respective specialties, Drug-Induced Diseases is organized logically and is easy to use. Opening chapters discuss the epidemiology, public health impact and monitoring of drug-induced diseases, covering numerous diseases of every major organ system.

Each chapter covers a particular disease state and explores links to medications that can cause the disease.

This essential reference gives this vital subject - which is responsible for extensive mortality, morbidity, and economic costs within the healthcare system - the comprehensive coverage it deserves.

Section Headings and Chapters Include:

• Magnitude/Significance of Drug-Induced Diseases: Impact on the Health Care System
  Chapter 1: Epidemiology and Public Health Impact of Drug-Induced Diseases
  Chapter 2: Factors Contributing to Drug-Induced Diseases
  Chapter 3: Postmarketing Surveillance of Medications for Drug-Induced Diseases
  
  
• Drug-Induced Respiratory Diseases
  Chapter 20: Pulmonary Fibrosis/Interstitial Pneumonitis
  Chapter 21: Asthma/Bronchospasm
  
  
• Drug-Induced Hematological Disorders
  Chapter 44: Thrombocytopenia
  Chapter 45: Thromboembolic Diseases
  Chapter 46: Neutropenia
  Chapter 47: Anemias
  
  
• Section 13: Miscellaneous
  Chapter 51: Drug-Induced Neoplastic Diseases
  Chapter 52: Drug-Induced Auditory, Nose & Throat Diseases
  Chapter 53: Teratogenicity