Mitochondrial Medicine

"Attractive to read not only for paediatricians and neurologists familiar with these devastating disorders but definitely also for a broad range of other, if not all, practicing clinicians and clinical scientists. [...] a wannahave for every medical library!" - Jan A.M. Smeitink, Mitochondrion, Feb 2007 'This remarkably well-written book is a pleasure to read and to learn from. Mitochondrial Medicine is highly recommended to medical students, residents, practicing neurologists, ophthalmologists, internists, pediatricians, and pathologists.' - Andrew Engel, Annals of Neurology, Vol. 60: 5 'This excellent book should become the definitive resource on clinical aspects of mitochondrial diseases ... What this book does superbly is bring together all the clinical aspects into one much-needed resource. The book is edited by experts in the field and is both up-to-date and comprehensive ... Mitochondrial Medicine offers the first comprehensive description of the clinical importance of mitochondrial dysfunction in all branches of medicine.' - New England Journal of Medicine '[The editors] have compiled a brilliant book encapsulating our current knowledge of mitochondrial function and miotochondrisal-based diseases in 14 well-focused chapters ... It presents an exciting and dynamic new publishing venture in a rapidly evolving field of molecular medicine ... Neurologists, psychiatrists, internists, pediatricians, geneticists, and neuroscientists, among others, will benefit greatly from reading this wonderful book. It provides a wealth of clinical and molecular information indispensable to the clinician and physician-scientist alike.' - Archives of Neurology, Vol 63, October 2006