Biologic Basis for Disease in Children: From Bench to Bedside: Genetics, Immunology, and Organ-System Physiology for Medical Students - Softcover

Hampton MD, Jeremy D.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798174199392

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Understand Why Children's Disease Looks Nothing Like the Textbook Predicts

Biologic Basis for Disease in Children is an evidence-based reference tracing pediatric disease from molecular lesion through developmental modifier to clinical phenotype, built for learners who need to understand mechanism, not just management. Spanning cellular biology, genetics, immunology, metabolism, and every major organ system, the text is grounded in current guideline and primary-literature synthesis rather than adapted from an adult-medicine template.

Written for medical students, pediatric residents, and advanced-practice trainees building durable clinical reasoning rather than memorized management algorithms.

Each chapter walks the reader from molecular defect through developmental context to bedside phenotype, using named clinical translation callouts that make the reasoning explicit rather than assumed.

Inside This Textbook

• Twenty-two chapters spanning cellular biology, genetics, and every major organ system, building a complete mechanistic foundation for pediatric clinical reasoning
• The Pathogenesis Translation System, a recurring five-part framework applied across dozens of clinical conditions, training readers to link molecular lesion, developmental timing, and bedside presentation systematically
• Dedicated chapters on inborn errors of metabolism, chromosomal disorders, and single-gene disease, organized by protein function and inheritance mechanism for faster differential generation
• Organ-system chapters covering cardiac, pulmonary, renal, hematologic, neurologic, and musculoskeletal disease, each built around the developmental transition that determines clinical timing
• The Pathogenesis Translation Atlas, a fully indexed cross-reference of every named clinical translation in the book, organized by chapter for rapid point-of-care lookup
• Guideline-referenced clinical content with named in-text attribution and a plain-text source list at the end of every major section
• Narrative clinical case presentations that walk through diagnostic reasoning from presentation to confirmed mechanism

Add this reference to your pediatrics shelf for a mechanistic foundation that makes every rotation, and every unusual presentation, easier to reason through.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798174199392
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 307
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg