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TEXT BOOK of MEDICINE


Global Advisory Board


Carol Black, DBE, CBE, MD, PRCP, MACP, FMedSci
Chairman, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, London, England

Rafael Carmena, MD, PhD, FACP, FRCP (Edin)
Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Yook-Chin Chia, MBBS, FRCP
Professor and Senior Consultant, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mauro A. Czepielewski, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Dean, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Guy Decaux, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, University Erasmus Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Galarza Delgado Dionicio, MD
Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario, Universidad Autónoma de Nueva León, Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico

Jens Chr. Djurhuus, MD, DMSc
Head, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark

Gian Franco Gensini, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Dean of the Florence Medical School, Università delgi Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy

S.B. Gupta, MBBS, MD
Chief Physician-Cardiologist, Head, Departments of Medicine amd Cardiology, Central Railway Headquarters Hospital, Mumbai, India

W. Hiddemann, MD, PhD
Director, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Karel Horký, MD, DrSc.
Department of Medicine, Charles University, University General Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Richard Horton, FRCP FMedSci
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet, London, United Kingdom

Kiyoshi Kurokawa, MD, MACP, FRCP
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

N. Lameire, MD
Professor Emeritus, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

José Roberto Lapa e Silva, MD, PhD
Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Shou-Dong Lee, MD, FACG, FAGA
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Knut E.A. Lundin, MD, PhD, IACP
Consultant in Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, MD
Professor and Chairman of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Milton A. Martins, MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Yuji Matsuzawa, MD, PhD
Director, Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Trina Navas
Internist, epartment of Internal Medicine, Hospital General del Oeste “Dr. José Gregorio Hernandez”, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Jesus Priesto, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Liver Unit, University Clinic, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Jairo H. Roa, MD, MScEd, FACP(Hon)
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogata, Colombia

Antonio Raúl de los Santos, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Head, Department of Medicine, Hospital de Clinicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Anton F. Stalenhoef, MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Aru W. Sudoyo, MD, PhD, FACP
Lecturer, Division of Hematology-Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia

Napier Thomson, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FACP(Hon), FRCP
Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Serhat Ünal, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chair and Consultant, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Mariano Valdes, MD, PhD, FACC, FACP, FESC
Head of the Department of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, Arrixaca University Hospital, Murcia School of Medicine, Murcia, Spain

K.N. Viswanathan, DNB(Med)
Professor of Medicine, Consultant in Tropical Disease, Department of Medicine, Aarupadai Veeda Medical College, Pondicherry, India