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Endocrine Secrets

  • 8th Edition - November 7, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Michael T. McDermott
  • Language: English

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for qu… Read more

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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Endocrine Secrets, 8th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style—making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

Key features

  • The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time—succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
  • Fully revised and updated throughout, covering all aspects of today’s practice of endocrinology, including obesity management, weight loss drugs, and bariatric surgery; type 2 diabetes mellitus; insulin therapy; thyroid cancer; osteoporosis therapies; and much more
  • New chapters on Diabetes Management in Patients with Cancer; Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology; and Pseudo-Endocrine Disorders
  • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
  • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
  • Written and fully updated by clinical and thought leaders in endocrinology who have contributed chapters in their areas of expertise. Dr. McDermott, editor of this volume, is also the editor of Diabetes Secrets in the Secrets Series®
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Residents, Fellows (Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology)

Table of contents

SECTION I Fuel Metabolism

1. Diabetes Mellitus: Etiology, Classification, and Diagnosis

2. Diabetes Mellitus: Acute and Chronic Complications

3. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

4. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

5. Diabetes Technology: Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Pumps

6. Carbohydrate Counting and Precise Insulin Dosing

7. Inpatient Management of Diabetes and Stress Hyperglycemia

8. Diabetes in Pregnancy

9. Diabetes Management in Cancer Patients

10. Hypoglycemic Disorders

11. Lipid Disorders

12. Obesity

SECTION II Bone and Mineral Disorders

13. Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases

14. Measurement of Bone Mass

15. Osteoporosis Management

16. Osteomalacia, Rickets, and Vitamin D Insufficiency

17. Paget’s Disease of Bone

18. Hypercalcemia

19. Hyperparathyroidism

20. Hypercalcemia of Malignancy

21. Hypocalcemia

22. Nephrolithiasis

SECTION III Pituitary and Hypothalamic Disorders

23. Anterior Pituitary Insufficiency (Hypopituitarism)

24. Nonfunctioning Pituitary Tumors and Pituitary Incidentalomas

25. Pituitary Stalk Lesions

26. Prolactin-Secreting Pituitary Tumors

27. Growth Hormone–Secreting Pituitary Tumors

28. Cushing’s Syndrome

29. Glycoprotein Secreting Pituitary Tumors

30. Water Metabolism

31. Disorders of Growth

32. Growth Hormone Use and Abuse

SECTION IV Adrenal Disorders

33. Primary Aldosteronism

34. Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas

35. Adrenal Incidentalomas

36. Adrenal Malignancies

37. Adrenal Insufficiency

38. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

SECTION V Thyroid Disorders

39. Thyroid Testing

40. Hyperthyroidism

41. Hypothyroidism

42. Thyroiditis

43. Thyroid Nodules and Goiter

44. Thyroid Cancer

45. Thyroid Emergencies

46. Euthyroid Sick Syndrome

47. Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy

48. Psychiatric Disorders and Thyroid Disease

49. Disorders of Puberty

50. Male Hypogonadism

51. Erectile Dysfunction

52. Gynecomastia

53. Amenorrhea

54. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

55. Hirsutism and Virilization

56. Menopause

57. Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults

58. Use and Abuse of Anabolic–Androgenic Steroids and Androgen Precursors

SECTION VI Miscellaneous Topics

59. Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndromes

60. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia

61. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

62. Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Crisis

63. Aging and Endocrinology

64. Endocrinopathies Due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

65. Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery

66. Adrenal Surgery

67. Pancreas and Other GI Neuroendocrine Tumors

68. Bariatric Surgery

69. Health Care Disparities in Endocrinology

70. Endocrinology in Africa

71. Pseudoendocrine Disorders: Recognition and Management

72. Famous People With Endocrine Disorders

73. Interesting Endocrine Facts and Figures

74. Endocrine Case Studies

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 2, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Michael T. McDermott

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy, Lucas Family Endowed Chair in Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado