Principles of international endocrine Practice
1.1: A history of endocrinology
1.2: Prevention in endocrinology
1.3: Endocrinology and evolution: lessons from comparative endocrinology
1.4: Hormones and receptors: fundamental considerations
1.5: Molecular basis of hormonal action
1.6: Endocrine autoimmunity
1.7: Measurement of circulating hormones
1.8: Endocrine disruptors
1.9: Sports endocrinology
Pituitary and hypothalmic diseases
2.1: Pituitary anatomy and physiology
2.2: The neurohypophysis
2.3: Aetiology, pathogenesis, and management of disease of the pituitary
2.4: Aetiology, pathogenesis, and management of disease of the hypothalamus
2.5: Pineal physiology and pathophysiology including pineal tumours
2.6: Neuropsychiatric endocrinological disorders
The thyroid
3.1: Evaluation of the thyroid patient
3.2: Aetiology of thryroid disorders
3.3: Thyrotoxicosis and related disorders
3.4: Hypothyroidism and pregancy- and growth-related thyroid disorders
3.5: Thyroid lumps
Parathyroid, calcium and bone metabolism
4.1: Parathyroid anatomy, hormone synthesis, secretion, action, receptors
4.2: Hypercalcaemia
4.3: Primary hyperparathyroidism
4.4: Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia
4.5: Hypocalcaemic disorders, hypoparathyroidism, and pseudohypoparathyroidism
4.6: Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes in children
4.7: Osteoporosis
4.8: Thyroid disease and osteoporosis
4.9: Paget's disease of bone
4.10: Rickets and osteomalacia (acquired and heritable forms) and skeletal dysplasias
4.11: Glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis
The adrenal gland and endocrine hypertension
5.1: Adrenal imaging
5.2: Adrenal surgery
5.3: Adrenal incidentaloma
5.4: Adrenocortical cancer
5.5: Phaeochromocytomas, paragangliomas, and neuroblastoma
5.6: Primary aldosteronism and other steriod-related causes of endocrine hypertension
5.7: Cushing's syndrome
5.8: Glucocorticoid resistance - the defect in glucocorticoid receptor
5.9: Addison's disease (adrenal insufficiency)
5.10: Familial glucocorticoid deficiency syndromes- the defect ACTH receptor
5.11: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Neuroendocrine tumours and genetic disorders
6.1: An appraisal of the past and perspectives for the future
6.2: Neuroendocrine tumour markers
6.3: Neuroendocrine (carcinoid) tumours and the carcinoid syndrome
6.4: Gastrinoma
6.5: Insulinomas and hypoglycaemia
6.6: Glucagonoma
6.7: VIPomas
6.8: Somatostatinomas
6.9: Imaging neuroendocrine tumours of the gastrointestinal tract
6.10: Mastocytosis
6.11: MEN1
6.12: MEN2
6.13: Von Hippel-Lindau disease and succinate dehydrogenase subunit (SDHB, SDHC and SDHD) genes
6.14: Neurofibromatosis
6.15: Carney's complex
6.16: Molecular and clinical characteristics of McCune Albrights syndrome
6.17: Cowden's syndrome
Growth and development during childhood
7.1: Normal growth and sexual development
7.2: Growth and sexual disorders in childhood
Female endocrinology and pregnancy
8.1: Female endocrinology and ovarian disorders
8.2: Pregancy-related disorders
Male endocrinology
9.1: Definitions and classifications of disorders
9.2: Normal male endocrinology
9.3: Evaluation of the male patient with suspected endocrinological disease
9.4: Male endocrinological disorders and male factor infertility
9.5: Exogenous factors and male reproductive health
Endocrinology of ageing and systemic disease
10.1: Ageing and the endocrine system
10.2: Endocrinology of systemic disease
Endocrinology of cancer
11.1: Secondary endocrine tumours, ectopic hormone syndromes, and effects of cancer treatment on endocrine function
11.2: Hormonal therapy for breast and prostatic cancers
Obesity, lipids and metabolic disorders
12.1: Epidemiology, aetiology, and management of obesity
12.2: Lipoprotein metabolism and related diseases
12.3: Other metabolic disorders
Diabetes mellitus
13.1: Diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus
13.2: Aetiology and pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus
13.3: Aetiolology and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus
13.4: Management of diabetes mellitus
13.5: Microvascular complications
13.6: Macrovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus
13.7: The diabetic foot
13.8: Mental health in diabetes mellitus
13.9: Organisation of diabetes care