Cachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach

Stefan D. Anker, Giovanni Mantovani, Akio Inui, John E. Morley, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Daniele Scevola, Michael W. Schuster, Shing-Shing Yeh

Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 6, 2007 - Medical - 758 pages

Cachexia may well represent the flip side of the tremendous achievements of modern medicine.

Many diseases rapidly leading patients to death just a few years ago, are now better controlled by new therapies, and even if we cannot cure and eradicate them, their natural history has significantly increased by months and years. Although these new therapeutic strategies represent a remarkable advantage over the standards of care, it is impossible to ignore that many more patients are now facing the nutritional consequences of prolonged immunological and metabolic challenges deriving from ongoing diseases and aggressive therapies.

Aim of the volume, written by world-renowned scientists, is to provide the best available evidence on the pathogenesis, clinical features and therapeutic approach of cachexia, and to facilitate the understanding of the complex yet unequivocal clinical role of this syndrome, that truly represents a disease, or, better still, a disease within other different diseases.

Contents

• ANGELA FAGA: 23
• BIOCHEMISTRY PHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICS OF ADIPOSE TISSUE: 45
• PAOLOTESSARI: 73
• DANIELESCEVOLA ANGELA DIMATTEO OMAR GIGLIO SILVIA SCEVOLA: 93
• Contents: 111
• MAX DAHELE KENNETH C H FEARON: 125
• ALESSANDRO LAVIANO MICHAEL M MEGUID FILIPPO ROSSIFANELLI 139: 137
• DANIELESCEVOLA ANGELA DIMATTEO OMAR GIGLIO FILIPPO UBERTI: 149
• GIOVANNI MANTOVANI CLELIAMADEDDU: 161
• GIUSEPPE SERGI PIETRO BONOMETTO ALESSANDRA COIN GIULIANO ENZI 175: 173
• MICHAEL J TISDALE: 185
• ENZO MANZATO GIOVANNA ROMANATO: 191
• GIOVANNI MANTOVANI 205: 204
• CYRILY BOWERS JAWKANG CHANG SHAOXING WU KLAUS D LINSE: 218
• FABIO BROGLIO CRISTINA GOTTERO FLAVIA PRODAM ELISA ME SILVIA DESTEFANIS FABRIZIO RIGANTI: 235
• SIMONA PERBONI GIOVANNI MANTOVANI AKIO INUI: 247
• CARLOS R PLATASALAMAN 259: 258
• FLAVIA PRODAM ELISA ME FABRIZIO RIGANTI MARIA ANGELA SEARDO BARBARA LUCATELLO: 269
• TAKESHIOHARA: 283
• Contents: 286
• ADELIO LUCCA ENRICO SMERALDI: 301
• EMIEL F M WOUTERS: 339
• SABINE STRASSBURG STEFAND ANKER: 349
• SHINGSHING YEH MICHAEL W SCHUSTER 365: 363
• DARIO COVA VITO LORUSSO NICOLA SILVESTRIS: 377
• OSAMA QUBAIAH JOHN E MORLEY: 383
• DAVID R THOMAS 397: 396
• DANIELESCEVOLA ANGELA DIMATTEO OMAR GIGLIO FILIPPO UBERTI: 407
• DANIELESCEVOLA OMAR GIGLIO SILVIA SCEVOLA: 429
• ARGILÉS SÍLVIA BUSQUETS RODRIGO MOORECARRASCO FRANCISCO J LÓPEZSORIANO: 467
• GIOVANNI MANTOVANI CLELIAMADEDDU: 477
• MICHAEL J TISDALE: 483
• ALESSANDRO LAVIANO MAURIZIO MUSCARITOLI FILIPPO ROSSIFANELLI: 489
• MAURIZIO MUSCARITOLI MAURIZIO BOSSOLA GIOVANNI B DOGLIETTO FILIPPO ROSSIFANELLI: 503
• SUSUMU SUZUKI CAROLINA G GONCALVES EDUARDO J B RAMOS AKIHIRO ASAKAWA: 509
• EDUARDO J B RAMOS CAROLINA G GONCALVES SUSUMU SUZUKI AKIO INUI: 521
• PAOLO LISSONI LUCAA FUMAGALLI FERNANDO BRIVIO GIANSTEFANO GARDANI ANGELO NESPOLI: 537
• FLORIAN STRASSER: 547
• GIOVANNI MANTOVANI 563: 562
• FEDERICO BOZZETTI: 581
• JAMIE H VON ROENN 593: 592
• FLORIAN STRASSER: 599
• H FEARON RICHARD J E SKIPWORTH: 619
• VICKIE E BARACOS: 631
• AMINAH JATOI KARIN F GIORDANO PHUONG L NGUYEN 643: 642
• GIORGIO LELLI BENEDETTA URBINI DANIELA SCAPOLI GERMANAGILLI: 649
• GIOVANNI MANTOVANI: 667
• TREATMENT OF CACHEXIA IN THE ELDERLY: 701
• CHARLES P LAMBERT WILLIAM J EVANS DENNIS H SULLIVAN 719: 718
• OSAMA QUBAIAH JOHN E MORLEY: 731
• A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE FOR THE TREATMENT OF CACHEXIA: 741
• Subject Index: 755

About the author

Professor Mantovani is Full Professor of Medical Oncology and Chief of the Division and Laboratory of Medical Oncology at University of Cagliari, School of Medicine, Cagliari, Italy. His research interests include treatment of cancer-related anorexia/cachexia and oxidative stress, combined-modality therapy of human cancers and cancer immunotherapy. He is first author of more than 200 publications in top-rated cancer journals. Many colleagues from all over the world are acting as co-editors.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach
• Editors: Stefan D. Anker, Giovanni Mantovani, Akio Inui, John E. Morley, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Daniele Scevola, Michael W. Schuster, Shing-Shing Yeh
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2007
• ISBN: 8847005523, 9788847005525
• Length: 758 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Clinical Medicine; Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism; Medical / Geriatrics; Medical / Infectious Diseases; Medical / Internal Medicine; Medical / Oncology / General