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Main description:
This volume provides in a conveniently accessible package a comprehensive collection of accurate and timely information on the management of patients with diarrhea, both in pediatric age and in the adult. As medical knowledge has recently expanded in this area, this volume is full of new practical, clinically useful material for the busy clinician.
Illustrations are emphasized to permit rapid acquisition of practical information that is not readily available in the major texts. Each chapter is concise, concentrating on "clinical pearls," and new advances in diagnostic and therapeutic technology. Each chapter discusses the relative costs of diagnostic and therapeutic options to permit financial considerations to be taken into account in the decision making process. Additional unique features include, summaries of key points, recommendations, and indications for requesting GI subspecialty consultation.
Providing a comprehensive but practical overview of the issues surrounding the diarrheal diseases, this volume will prove of great value and utility to gastroenterologists, surgeons, internists, primary care physicians.
Contents:
Definition, Epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical classification and differential diagnosis
Infectious diarrhea
IBD
Eosinophilic enteritis
Microscopic colitis
Food allergy including mile and soy protein allergy
Protein losing enteropathy
Chronic radiation enterocolitis
Ingestion of nonabsorbable solutes, malabsorptive diseases
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiencies
Bacterial overgrowth
Celiac disease
Whipple disease
Short bowel syndrome, other surgeries
Endocrine tumor diarrhea
Non endocrine malignant disease
Toxins*
Factitious Diarrhea
Chronic idiopathic diarrhea and pseudopancreatic cholera syndrome
IBS
Toddler's diarrhea*
Non malignant endocrine diarrhea
Alcoholic diarrhea*
Diarrhea in hospitalized patients*
Medications
Runner's diarrhea*
Evaluation of patients with diarrhea and timing of referral
Empiric treatment of acute and chronic diarrhea
The role of probiotics in prevention and treatment of diarrhea
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 510
Weight: 1021g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal/colorectal, General, General Practice, Nutrition
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