Reciprocal Translation Between Pathophysiology and Practice in Health and Disease brings a novel perspective, closing the knowledge gap between normal/abnormal physiology. Chapters describe the basic mechanisms underlying a disease or trauma-related response, describe consequences in practice, and provide insights on how to use information to better understand disease outcomes. Other sections explore how these responses are beneficial and driven by similar hormones and inflammatory immune cell derived modulators. This is a must-have resource for those seeking an authoritative and comprehensive understanding on how to treat the basic mechanisms underlying disease or trauma-related responses.With contributions from Petronella L.M. Reijven.

PART I. PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS IN DISEASE1. Reciprocal translation between pathophysiology and practice in health and disease2. General principles of the repair mechanism3. Cardiovascular responses to injury4. Insulin resistance as an adaptive mechanism5. Hypercholesterolemia, harm or benefit?6. Macronutrient metabolism in starvation and stress7. The role of ectopic adipose tissue: benefit or deleterious overflow? 8. The gut/liver axis, inflammation and the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome9. Harm and benefit of the inflammatory responsePART II. CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ADAPTIVE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 10. The beneficial role of inflammation and metabolic cycling (Warburg revisited)11. From hepatic encephalopathy to the quality of food protein and pro-tein requirements: a serendipitous journey 12. The underlying metabolism of hypoalbuminemia and its clinical effects13. Cardiovascular stress syndromes14. The benefit of moderate hyperglycemia and hyperlactatemia  in critical illness or synthesis of biomass15. Anemia as an adaptive phenomenon16. Vitamin D in health and diseasePART III. IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT 17. Decreases of plasma solutes in health and disease: deficiency or resulting from changing binding proteins and distribution volume?18. Comparable metabolism in pregnancy and cancer: a universal role of the Warburg effect19. Nutritional assessment and the role of pre-existent inflammation with a bearing on COVID-1920. The harm afflicted by NSAIDs, statins and oral antidiabetics by blocking adaptive inflammatory metabolism21. Benefit and concern of ketogenic and vegan diets: a revisit to pathophysiologyPART IV. MECHANISMS PROVIDING INSIGHT IN A FEW ENIGMATIC SYNDROMES22. Pathophysiology in practice: How to manage gastrointestinal surgery in acute and elective disease conditions23. The pathophysiology underlying the obesity and plasma cholesterol paradoxes24. The final conclusion: dogma, bias and big data