Manual of Gastroenterology

Preface I. APPROACH TO THE 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 II. DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES: Endoscopy / Laparoscopy and Laparoscopic Surgery / Percutaneous Liver Biopsy / Manometric Studies / Imaging Studies III. NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT: Nutritional Requirements and Assessment / Enteral Nutrition / Parenteral Nutrition IV. 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 V. 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 / 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 Gastrointestinal Bleeding / Acute Pancreatitis / Chronic Pancreatitis / Pancreatic Cancer / Jaundice and Interpretation of Laboratory Liver Tests / Gallstones / Viral Hepatitis / Alcoholic Liver Disease / Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease / Drug-Related Hepatic Injury / Chronic Immune-Mediated Liver Disease / Chronic Genetic Liver Diseases / Cirrhosis and Its Complications / Tumors of the Liver and Biliary System / Liver Transplantation /