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Medical Specialists / In the SpotlightPublicationsHere are some books written by some of our medical specialists and published recently. 2011Septembre 2011Suivi médical et déficience intellectuelle
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Individuals living with an intellectual handicap often present with more physical and mental health problems than the general population. Because of their difficulty communicating and understanding, it is often more difficult to diagnose their health problems. The aim of this text, written by three physicians including psychiatrist Robert Labine, is to provide physicians and other health professionals with information on the type of medical practice to adopt with regard to the specific characteristics of such individuals and to draw up guidelines for the promotion of good health and the prevention of medical problems.
The Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Quebec is celebrating its 40th anniversary by publishing the commemorative book 1966 ● 2006 : 40 ans d’importantes réalisations. This book revisits great moments in the Association's history, its presidents, directors and committee chairs.
Dr. Denis A. Roy, a public health medical specialist and Vice President for Scientific Affairs at the Institut national de la santé publique du Québec; Dr. Éric Litvak, a public health medical specialist and medical consultant for the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de la Montérégie, and Dr. Fred Paccaud, a colleague from Belgium, have published Des réseaux responsables de leur population; moderniser la gestion et la gouvernance en santé (Networks responsible for their population: modernizing management and governance in the health sector).
Doctors Pierre Couture, André Denault and Jean-Claude Tardif from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), in cooperation with Dr. Annette Vegas of Toronto General Hospital and Dr. Jean Buithieu of the McGill University Health Centre, have co-authored the second edition of the work that has become a reference manual for all specialists wishing to develop expertise in this area.
Historian Denis Goulet, in collaboration with Dr. Christian Allen Drouin, has just published Histoire de la dermatologie et de la syphiligraphie au Québec (The History of Quebec Dermatology and Syphilography), with Éditions Carte blanche. This text traces the emergence of dermatology and syphilography in Quebec, together with the scientific and professional developments in these fields. The major actors in this medical science are presented, those who played a primary role in establishing and developing this specialty in hospitals, as well as their efforts to ensure the introduction of preventive measures in the fight against syphilis and, more recently, skin cancer. The book also covers the 60-year history of the Association des dermatologues du Québec.
Approximately 300,000 Quebecers aged 55 or more suffer from age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) and this number may triple over the next 25 years because of population aging. Dr. Jean-Daniel Arbour and Dr. Pierre Labelle, both from to the Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal, along with two colleagues in France, have published DMLA - La dégénérescence maculaire liée à l’âge (Age-Related Macular Degeneration) (Annika Parance Éditeur), which discusses the causes, consequences and treatments of ARMD. This information and prevention guide seeks to generate a better understanding of this disease among the people affected and those close to them. The text is also a valuable guide for individuals recently diagnosed with ARMD, their families and friends.
Obesity, an extremely complexe phenomenom in itself, is growing out of proportions. Dr. Fernando Alvarez, a paediatrician at CHU Sainte-Justine, along with two colleagues, published Pédiatrie et obésité : un conflit entre nature et culture. This textbook covers subjects surrounding obesity in childhood and its consequences, an epidemiologic portrait of child obesity, the consequences of the food revolution on individual and populations’ health and problems existing in therapeutic and in a social perspective.
Many causes of handicaps and retarded development have been identified over the past few decades, mainly on the scientific front. Whether we are practitioners, professionals or parents, we need to obtain all the data available so that we can make informed decisions, taking all clinical, ethical and social factors and issues into account. “Handicaps et retards de développement”, published by Béliveau Éditeur, is the work of a multidisciplinary team from France and Quebec (a geneticist, child psychiatrist, psychologist, neonatologist and others). Its purpose is to disseminate information on the probable causes of handicaps or retarded development in children and inform medical personnel and parents of preventive measures that can be taken before, during and after the birth of the child.
Many people want to lose weight. Unfortunately, they are often led astray by miracle diets. The health consequences of obesity have been known since ancient times, and it has now taken on pandemic proportions. The result is chronic diseases that are costly for health care systems. This patient guidebook depicts the information available on weight loss and on the consequences of obesity. It sheds light on the successes and failures of various methods of weight loss.
Dr. Serge Doucet, a cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, and holder of the Groseillers-Bérard Chair in interventional cardiology, has recently written Vivre avec un proche cardiaque (Living with a Heart Patient). Among the subjects covered are the heart and its function, risk factors, warning signs of a heart attack or infarction, heart arrhythmia, the origin of cardiac valvular disorder, rehabilitation and resumption of activities, as well as the services available. 
Professor Luc Lanthier of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, has launched “Practical Guide to Internal Medicine”, the first English edition of Guide pratique de médecine interne of which there are five editions in French. 
As a result of the October 2008 symposium on the Suffering of Caregivers: Express or Repress? (La souffrance des soignants : exprimer ou réprimer ?) organized by the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), this work reflects the presentations made at that time and is intended to shed new light on a very real situation experienced by health and social services caregivers (physicians, nurses, social workers, etc.). Caregivers feel guilt over the fact that it is impossible for them to achieve the therapeutic ideal with regard to all the actions and practices intended to cure, heal and relieve. Conscious of their inability, caregivers may resign and become ill themselves. Now unable to give care, such individuals must change their role and, in their turn, become care receivers. 
Dr. Jean-Luc Tremblay, a rheumatologist at Centre hospitalier régional de Trois-Rivières and Head of Clinical Teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of Université de Montréal (Mauricie Campus), recently had his book, L’examen musculosquelettique, a manual for students and established practitioners, published by Presses de l’Université de Montréal. The complete manual offers an integrated view of the steps involved in a musculoskeletal physical examination. The history and diagnostic techniques/manoeuvres are described in detail for each group of joints and all types of symptoms, supported by numerous illustrations and photographs.
Dr. Yvon Gauthier, a psychiatrist at Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre and Professor emeritus at the Université de Montréal, has published (Éditions érès) a book intended for all those who work with children and families. According to Dr. Gauthier, “The title of this book is a little misleading. It is not only intended for child psychiatrists, but for all colleagues because of my emphasis on the relationship all physicians must establish with their patients.”
Dr. Reda Ibrahim, a hemodynamics cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, Dr. Alexis Matteau, a resident and Dr. Nicolo Piazza, a Fellow in interventional cardiology in Rotterdam have published Le bilan hémodynamique par cathétérisme cardiaque : approche systématique (Presses de l’Université de Montréal – PUM). This manual is as much a teaching tool as a work of reference. It is intended for medical residents and cardiology fellows, cardiologists, hemodynamics laboratory personnel, internists, and all medical professionals interested in invasive hemodynamics investigation. The authors put forward a rigorous method for approaching hemodynamic tracings by disease category: valvular stenosis, valvular regurgitation, cardiomyopathy, pericardial disease and arterial tracings. 
Dr. Michel Carrier, cardiothoracic surgeon at the Montreal Health Institute and Medical Director of Québec-Transplant, has published Comment va mon nouveau cœur? (Éditions du CHU Sainte-Justine).
Dr. Marie-Josée Filteau, a psychiatrist and associate researcher at the Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, in collaboration avec Jacques Beaulieu, a medical writer, has published Le trouble bipolaire pour ceux qui en souffrent et leurs proches. This book explores the different aspects of this disorder (previously known as manic-depressive disorder) which affects 1 to 5% of the population and, because of its often poorly understood consequences, also affects the families and those near to the patient.
Dr. Gilles Julien, a pediatrician and founder of the social pediatric movement, has published a book with his wife, Maître Hélène Sioui-Trudel, presenting their approach in which all the needs and rights of a child are considered. For the authors, the key to this model is the mobilization of all those involved in the community, creating a real social pact for children.
Two cardiologists, Dr. Teresa Kus of Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal and Dr. Bernard Thibault of the Montreal Heart Institute, have together created a training DVD entitled La syncope : enjeux médicaux et psychologiques.
A new title has recently been added to the Vivre avec… series, published by Éditions Bayard. Dr. Brian G. Bexton, a psychiatrist and president of the Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec, has published Vivre avec une personne dépressive. 
Drs. François Maltais and Roger Belleau, respirologists at Hôpital Laval, have published Apprendre à vivre avec la bronchite chronique ou l’emphysème, in collaboration with Les Presses de l’Université Laval.
Le cancer du sein, une approche multidisciplinaire, 8th edition, DVD-ROM. Under the direction of Dr. Denis Couture, a radiologist, this DVD on a multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer is the result of 7 years’ work by a multidisciplinary team of radiologists, pathologists, community health specialists and others. It is designed for all physicians interested in or with a practice focusing on the care of women. This expanded 8th edition has undergone substantial revision (4Go). It now has 3,000 pages, 60 original plates, as well as decision-making algorithms, digital imaging with the clinical presentation, mammography, ultrasound, scintimammography, monophotonic emission tomography (SPECT), PET scan, MRI and histology. 
The history of laparoscopic surgery goes back as far as 1900, but it really came into its own in the mid-1980s. Covering the history of laparoscopy and, specifically, its legal aspects (legislation, regulations sources of responsibility, in particular), this book is intended as a reference for lawyers in the field of medical liability who will find its legal references and jurisprudence useful, for laparascopic surgeons who will recognize the concrete problems of their practice, for medical students and also hospital administrators.
The WHO has decided to devote the first decade of the 21st century to osteoarticular diseases. Over the past few years, methods of diagnosing and managing musculoskeletal conditions have conside- rably improved. Taking factual medicine as their inspiration, the authors (Drs. Yves Bergeron, Luc Fortin and Richard Leclaire), all three physiatrists, integrate clinical expertise, patients’ needs and expectations, and data found in the literature.
Intended for public consumption, this book provides an extraordinarily vivid and easy-to-understand picture of the development of cardiology, its intervention techniques, the management and prevention of cardiovascular disease. It puts the emphasis on what people want and should know about their cardiovascular health. 
This book is designed to improve medical practice with regard to tropical, parasitical, viral or bacterial diseases. It contains a section on international pediatrics which, in addition to dietary problems, anemia and contagious diseases, deals with problem situations that might arise from immigration or international adoption and the difficulties families must sometimes face. A laboratory section describes the various methods used to identify parasites as well as the principal methods used to stain bacteria. 
Introduction à la pratique de l’éthique clinique by Jean-François Malherbe, philosopher, theologian and professor of clinical ethics at the University of Sherbrooke Faculty of Medicine.
Infiltrations de corticoïdes by Drs. Pierre Béliveau and René Parent, physiatrists, both of whom are professors at the Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, and consultants at the Centre de physiatrie de Québec