Hydro Saline Metabolism, 1st ed. 2023 Epidemiology, Genetics, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment Endocrinology Series

Written by a combination of recognized and emerging experts in the field, this book is intended as a major reference work, not only for endocrinologists and nephrologists, but also for pediatricians, neonatologists, cardiologists, and emergency medicine and intensive care specialists, who can be faced with the management of endocrine diseases responsible of salt and water imbalance.

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Neuroendocrine regulation of hydromineral homeostasis.- Physiology of vasopressin secretion.-Tubulopathies and alterations of the RAAS.- Familial hyperkalemic hypertension (Gordon Syndrome).- Diabetes insipidus: Novel diagnostic approaches.- Hydro-saline alterations in central adrenal  insufficiency.- Approach to hyponatremia according to the clinical setting.-Electrolyte disturbance in congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-OH deficiency.- Rare forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia affecting electrolyte homeostasis.- Apparent mineralocorticoid excess (11bHSD2 mutations).- Aldosterone resistance.- Primary aldosteronism.- From hydro-saline metabolism to metabolic diseases.- Hydro-saline alterations in Cushing disease.

Massimiliano Caprio is full professor of endocrinology at San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy, since 2019. He is the head of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Endocrinology at the Research Center of IRCCS San Raffaele in Rome since 2009 and consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist at CTO Alesini Hospital, University of Rome Tor Vergata, since 2007. He received his MD (1995) and board certification (2001) in endocrinology from Sapienza University of Rome. He obtained a PhD in endocrine sciences from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2006. Prof. Caprio was an attending physician in the Units of Nuclear Medicine at Bichat Claude-Bernard Hospital and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, France (2003–2005). He was a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA (1997–1998), and a postdoctoral fellow in the Unit of Experimental Medicine (U36) at INSERM in Collège de France in Paris, France (2003–2007). He has been adjunct professor of Endocrinology at the Catholic University “Zoja e Këshillit të Mirë” in Tirana, Albania (2013–2016). Prof. Caprio has several national and international committee memberships and editorships. Currently, he is specialty chief editor for Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare (Section on Diabetes Geographical Inequalities) and senior editor for the Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. He is also associate editor for the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications and Frontiers in Endocrinology (Section on Obesity). He is an international member of the French National Research Agency (Commission 17 – Translational Research in Health) and has served as a member of the Annual Meeting Steering Committee of the Endocrine Society (USA) from 2020. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE) and deputy coordinator of the Scientific Committee of SIE. He has be