Manual of gastroenterology : diagnosis and therapy /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Books@Ovid (Online service), Ovid Technologies, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2008]
Edition:Fourth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Approach to a patient with a gastroenterologic disorder. Social impact of digestive diseases
  • The patient's complaints
  • Examination of the patient
  • Psychological and emotional aspects of gastroenterologic disorders
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Endoscopy
  • Laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery
  • Percutaneous liver biopsy
  • Manometric studies
  • Imaging studies
  • Nutritional assessment and management. Nutritional requirements and assessment
  • Enteral nutrition
  • Parental nutrition
  • Gastroenterologic emergencies. The acute abdomen
  • Acute gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract
  • Caustic ingestion
  • Fulminant hepatic failure and encephalopathy
  • Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases in pregnancy
  • Specific complaints and disorders. Esophageal infections
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • Dysphagia
  • Noncardiac chest pain
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Peptic ulcer disease
  • Stress ulcer
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Gastric neoplasms
  • Postgastrectomy disorders
  • Diarrhea
  • Viral, bacterial, and parasitic disorders of the bowel
  • Malabsorption
  • Small-intestinal neoplasms and carcinoid tumors
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intestinal gas and bloating
  • Diverticular disease
  • Constipation and fecal impaction
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Vascular disease of the bowel
  • Colonic polyps and colorectal cancer
  • Ostomy care
  • Hemorrhoids and other anorectal disorders
  • Sexually transmitted enteric disorders
  • Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases in patients with HIV and AIDS
  • Occult obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Pancretic cancer, ampullary cancer, cystic tumors, and neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas
  • Jaundice and interpretation of laboratory liver tests
  • Gallstones
  • Viral hepatitis
  • Alcoholic liver disease (ALD)
  • Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
  • Drug-related hepatic injury
  • Chronic immune-mediated liver disease
  • Inherited liver disease
  • Cirrhosis and its complications
  • Tumors of the liver and biliary system
  • Liver transplantation
  • Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
  • Obesity.