Written with the purpose of providing a basic text for practising clinicians, general practitioners, physicians in training and medical students in the Asia-Pacific region, and providing local data, where possible, this book offers a broad review of internal medicine with regard to investigations, diagnosis and management. It discusses a variety of clinical entities in cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, haematology. neurology, oncology, rheumatology, and renal and respiratory medicine.