Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology has been designed to cover the clinical and patient-management aspects of gastrointestinal and liver disease in a unique and exciting format. The book is illustrated throughout in fully integrated colour, and contains an illustration program of over 1650 algorithms, graphs, diagrams and clinical photographs that is based on an award-winning format. A section on common symptoms introduces the chapters covering disease, and the book also includes a separate section on diagnosis and treatment especially designed for quick look-up and reference. Treatment is presented according to the evidence base for it. The book has been structured to comprehensively cover gastroenterology and hepatology, but allow fast access to the key answers the clinician needs in their everyday practice. Relevant pathophysiology is included to underpin the clinical detail.

Written by a global selection of some of the most exciting names in gastroenterology and hepatology today, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology will be an essential addition to the libraries of gastroenterologists, hepatologists and internists, and particularly trainees and residents who are looking for a modern and fresh approach to this subject area.

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Features

* Includes full-chapter coverage of the hottest topics in today’s practice, including Capsule Endoscopy • Virtual Endoscopy Imaging • GERD • Colorectal Cancer: Screening and Surveillance • and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
* Features more than 1,650 colour algorithms, graphs, tables, and photographs that depict today’s practice in action.
* Offers just enough information on basic science to provide an understanding of the clinical information presented while avoiding information overload.
* Provides a separate section on diagnosis and treatment.
* Summarises Causes and Risk Factors/Clinical Presentation and Symptoms/Clinical Pearls/Diagnostic Methods/Differential Diagnosis/Treatment and Prevention/Complications and their Management in boxes found in every chapter.

Contents

Part One: SYMPTOMS, SYNDROMES AND SCENARIOS

Discomfort above the diaphragm

1. Differential diagnosis and management of burning mouth syndrome (BMS)
2. Heartburn and non-cardiac chest pain
3. Dysphagia and odynophagia

Discomfort below the diaphragm

4. Chronic or recurrent abdominal pain
5. Dyspepsia
6. Nausea and vomiting
7. Bloating and early satiety
8. Belching and rumination

Disorders of defecation

9. Diarrhea including acute, chronic and bloody
10. Fecal incontinence
11. Rectal bleeding
12. Anorectal pain

Generalized ill health

13. Anorexia and eating disorders
14. Weight loss
15. Gastrointestinal causes of anemia and occult bleeding
16. Pruritus
17. Jaundice
18. Spotting and dealing with signs of chronic liver disease
19. Ascites
20. Abnormal liver function tests

Urgent situations

21. Acute abdominal pain
22. Hematemesis and melena
23. Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Scenarios

24. Being infected with H. pylori
25. Being on NSAIDs
26. Gastrointestinal problems in primary care
27. Gastrointestinal problems in the elderly
28. Gastrointestinal problems in pediatrics

Part Two: DISEASES OF THE GUT AND LIVER

I. DISORDERS OF THE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

Esophageal: benign

29. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) including hiatus hernia and esophagitis
30. Benign esophageal strictures and caustic esophageal injury

Esophageal: malignant and premalignant

31. Barrett’s esophagus
32. Esophageal cancer

Upper gastrointestinal infections

33. Infections of the esophagus and stomach
34. H. pylori:Its diseases and management

Gastroduodenal: benign

35. Peptic ulcer
36. Gastritis

Gastroduodenal: malignant and premalignant

37. Adenocarcinoma
38. Gastric lymphoma
39. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and other gastroduodenal tumors

Motility disorders

40. Esophageal motility disorders
41. Gastric motility disorders

II. DISORDERS OF THE SMALL AND LARGE BOWEL

Food, nutrition and malabsorption

42. Food allergy and intolerance
43. Maldigestion and malabsorption
44. Celiac sprue
45. Short bowel syndrome
46. Small bowel bacterial overgrowth
47. Bile acid malabsorption
48. Protein-losing disorders of the gastrointestinal tract

Intestinal infections and infestations

49. Infective diarrhea
50. Travellers’ diarrhea
51. Abdominal tuberculosis
52. Parasites

Inflammatory bowel disease

53. Ulcerative colitis
54. Crohn’s disease
55. Indeterminate colitis
56. Microscopic colitis
57. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
58. Pseudomembraneous colitis
59. Ischemia and ischemic colitis

Malignant tumors

60a. Biology and genetics of colorectal cancer
60b. Colorectal cancer: screening and surveillance
60c. Polyps and polyposis
60d. Team approach to cancer management
61. Other gastrointestinal tumors

Motility disorders

62. Obstruction and volvulus
63. Constipation and constipation syndromes
64. Irritable bowel syndrome
65. Diverticular disease of the colon
66. Disorders of colorectal dysmotility

Other disorders of the small and large bowel

67. Splanchnic vascular disorders
68. Drug-induced damage to the small and large intestines
69. Appendicitis

Anorectal disorders

70. Anorectal diseases

III. DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS AND BILIARY TRACT

Pancreas

71. Acute pancreatitis
72. Chronic pancreatitis
73. Pancreatric exocrine tumors
74. Cysts of the pancreas
75. Development and miscellaneous abnormalities

Biliary tract

76. Cholelithiasis, choledocholithiasis and cholecystitis
77. Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
78. Primary sclerosing cholangitis
79. Cholangiacarcinoma

Malformations

80. Congenital abnormalities of the biliary tract

IV. LIVER DISEASE

Infections
81. Acute viral hepatitis
82a. Chronic viral hepatitis B
82b. Chronic viral hepatitis C
82c. Chronic viral hepatitis D
83. Schistosoma and other parasites
84. Bacterial and fungal infections of the liver

Auto-immune and related disorders

85. Primary biliary cirrhosis
86. Chronic autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndrome

Genetic and metabolic liver diseases

87. Alcoholic liver diseases
88. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
89. Hemochromatosis
90. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
91. Wilson’s disease
92. Drug-induced and toxic liver disease
93. Genetic and metabolic liver diseases of childhood
94. Disturbances of bilirubin metabolism

Cirrhosis of the liver and its complications

95. Cirrhosis of the liver
96. Portal hypertension
97. Ascites and hepatorenal syndrome
98. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
99. Hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension
100. Episodic encephalopathy
101. Fulminant liver failure and acute encephalopathy

Other liver diseases

102. Tumors of the liver
103. Vascular disorders of the liver
104. Granulomas of the liver
105. Liver diseases and pregnancy

Liver transplantation

106. Liver transplantation: indications and selection of candidates and immediate complications
107. Long-term management and recurrence of primary liver disease

V. DISEASES OF MULTIPLE ORGAN SYSTEMS

108. Gastrointestinal tract in systemic disease
109. Gut/pancreatic endocrine tumors
110. The carcinoid syndrome
111. AIDS and the gut
112. Graft-versus-host disease
113. Radiation and other physico-chemical injury
114. Amyloidosis
115. Foreign bodies
116. Porphyria

VI. ABDOMINAL WALL AND CAVITY

117. Absesses and other intra-abdominal diseases
118. Hernias and the abdominal wall

Part Three: PRIMER OF DIAGNOSTIC METHODS

Endoscopic imaging

19. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and mucosal biopsy
120. Lower gastrointestinal endoscopy and mucosal biopsy
121. Endoscopic ultrasound
122. Diagnostic and interventional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
123. Capsule endoscopy

Percutaneous imaging

124. Percutaneous ultrasound
125. Barium radiology
126. Computed tomography (CT)
127. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
128. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
129. Virtual endoscopy imaging
130. Positron emission tomography (PET)

Functional testing

131. Functional evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract
132. Motility testing
133. Measurement of portal pressure

Tissue testing

134. Liver biopsy
135. Histopathology primer for gastroenterologists and hepatologists

Part Four: PRIMER OF TREATMENTS

Medical treatments

136. Drugs used in gastrointestinal and liver disease
137. Drug prescription in liver disease
138. An approach to nutritional assessment
139. Nutrition support
140. Complementary medicine for irritable and inflammatory bowel

Therapeutic endoscopy

141. Conscious sedation
142. Sclerotherapy, banding and other hemostatic techniques for varices and other lesions
143. Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
144. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) and jejunostomy
145. Endoscopic resection of tumors and polyps
146. Dilation and stenting of the gastrointestinal tract

Percutaneous therapy

147. The transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
148. Interventional radiology
149. Paracentesis

A synopsis of surgical operations

150. Liver operations
151. Gastrointestinal operations
152. Minimally invasive surgery

Index