Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Whereas other textbooks mix a clinical approach with large amounts of the basic science of gastroenterology, this book concentrates on providing practicing gastroenterologists with 100% clinically focused, evidence-based chapters on how to correctly diagnosis and treat all disorders of the digestive tract. Once again, the book is divided into 4 clear parts: Symptoms, Syndromes and Scenarios; Diseases of the Gut and Liver; Primer of Diagnostic Methods; and Primer of Treatments . An accompanying website contains more than 85 high-definition surgical videos of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures, 300 MCQs written to mirror the American College of Gastroenterology postgraduate course exams, more than 35 management protocol charts for different diseases, and 850+ illustrations for use in scientific presentations. Table of Contents Part 1: Symptoms, Syndromes and Scenarios. Discomfort above the diaphragm. Discomfort below the diaphragm. Disorders of defecation. Generalized ill health. Urgent situations. Scenarios. Part 2: Diseases of the Gut and Liver. Section 1: Disorders of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract. Esophageal: benign. Esophageal: malignant and pre–malignant. Upper gastrointestinal infections. Gastroduodenal: benign. Gastroduodenal: malignant and pre–malignant. Motility disorders. Section 2: Disorders of the Small and Large Bowel. Food, nutrition and malabsorption. Intestinal infections and infestations. Inflammatory bowel disease. Malignant tumors. Motility disorders. Other disorders of the small and large bowel. Anorectal diseases. Section 3: Diseases of the Pancreas and Biliary Tract. Pancreas. Biliary tract. Malformations. Section 4: Liver Disease. Infections. Autoimmune and related disorders. Genetic, metabolic and iatrogenic liver diseases. Cirrhosis of the liver and its complications. Other liver diseases. Liver transplantation. Section 5: Diseases of Multiple Organ Systems. Section 6: Abdominal Wall and Cavity. Part Three: Primer of Diagnostic Methods. Endoscopic imaging. Percutaneous imaging. Functional testing. Tissue testing. Part Four: Primer of Treatments. Medical treatments. Therapeutic endoscopy. Percutaneous therapy. A synopsis of surgical operations. Index.   Professor Christopher Hawkey is Professor of Gastroenterology at Nottingham University and Co–director of Nottingham University’s Institute of Clinical Research, and President Elect of the British Society of Gastroenterology 2009. Professor Jaime Bosch is Professor of Medicine, and Senior Consultant Hepatologist and Chief at the Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic–Idibaps, University of Barcelona and Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (Ciberehd), Barcelona, Spain. Guadalupe Garcia–Tsao , MD is Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. Professor Francis Chan is Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and an honorary consultant physician at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH).