Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-265-12291-1
Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1075 g

Completely updated and revised! A comprehensive yet concise resource for diagnosing and treating the most common gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition issues.

Focusing on disorders that you are the most likely to encounter, Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition enables you to assess and interpret presenting signs and symptoms and formulate an effective plan for management.

Providing an effective combination of concise text and useful summary features, chapter content is clearly organized into four easily digestible sections:

• Approach to Main Symptoms includes algorithms providing diagnostic and/or therapeutic approach to commonly encountered signs and symptoms

• Main GI Diseases offers series of disorders individually described, including definition, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis, and treatment

• Less Frequently Encountered GI Diseases describes rare disorders pediatric residents may encounter during their rotation

• Commonly Used Drugs, Tests, and Techniques familiarizes you with frequently used drugs, imaging, and invasive diagnostic techniques, tests, and how they apply to GI disorders

From GI problems in the newborn, infectious diarrhea, and constipation to gastro-esophageal reflux, cystic fibrosis, and celiac disease, Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition provides everything you need to master all facets of this important subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guandalini, Stefano

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Approach to Main Symptoms VomitingDiarrhea Constipation Abdominal Pain Upper GI BleedingLower GI Bleeding Failure to Thrive Jaundice Main GI Diseases GI problems in the Newborn Pyloric stenosis Short bowel syndrome Gastro-esophageal reflux Eosinophilic Disorders (Esophagitis,gastro-enteropathies) Infectious Diarrhea Constipation Food allergies and intolerance (FPIES, etc.)H. pylori and Peptic-ulcer disease Acute and chronic pancreatitis Cystic Fibrosis Celiac DiseaseInflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn’s disease,ulcerative colitis)Functional GI disorders with abdominal pain Intussusception Appendicitis Liver disorders, including Hepatitis, NAFLD, andindications for liver transplant Less Frequently Encountered GI Diseases Microvillous inclusion diseaseGlucose-Galactose Malabsorption Sucrase-Isomaltase deficiency Disorders of electrolyte transport (CongenitalNa-losing diarrhea, Chloridorrhea) Hirschsprung disease Autoimmune enteropathy Menetrier disease Vasculitides Polyps and other tumors of the GI tract Commonly used drugs, tests, and techniques Drugs commonly used in pediatric GI: indications anddosagesEndoscopy and video-capsule Imaging techniques Enteral and parenteral nutrition Tests commonly employed in pediatric GI and how tointerpret them

Über Autor(innen)

Guandalini, Stefano
Stefano Guandalini, MD Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology University of Chicago Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics University of Chicago School of Medicine Chicago, IL Dr. Guandalini directs the pediatric GI division for a large academic medical center and is one of the best-known pediatric GI specialists in the world. He is immediate past president of the European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology. He has published innumerable original research articles in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and has been published in the academically rigorous and highly selective Journal of Clinical Investigation.