KEY FEATURES:

- Accessible presentation in which the understanding is constructed from the basic concepts to the most advanced concepts, with the definition of key terms as the work progresses.
- Sequential and block content that allows students to stay focused on the most important information and helps them review the highlights efficiently.
- Case studies that open each of the different units and put a real and practical face to the pathophysiology.
- About 1000 full-color images detail the clinical manifestations of diseases and pathological processes.
- Each chapter opens with learning objectives and closes with summaries of what has been learned, along with review exercises.
- Understanding boxes that divide the physiological processes sequentially, which provides an idea of ​​the many options that exist for the disease to interrupt the processes.
- Boxes with key ideas and concepts.
- Review exercises at the end of each chapter, which test student retention and identify areas for further study.
- References for quick and efficient access to normal laboratory values.
- Full glossary.
- Animations narrated and in 3D (online) that help to master the most complicated and relevant clinical aspects and thus understand the diseases.
- NEW! Updated with the many technological advances that allow health care providers to diagnose earlier and more accurately.
- NEW! "Conceptual domain alerts" in which they explain topics that students may find confusing.
- NEW! Tables with pediatric considerations and geriatric considerations in each chapter specifying how the content of the chapter is applied to these two special populations.
- NEW! Extension of the content on nutrition; sleep disorders; pediatrics; gerontology; and mood disorders.
- NEW! Advances in medical care are presented through the inclusion of international studies, guidelines of the World Health Organization, updated standards and health variants of various populations.
- NEW! eBook included with the acquisition of the printed work.