Main description:

The AFS Textbook of Foregut Disease serves as a comprehensive guide of information covering the fast-evolving field of foregut disease. This textbook is designed as a partnership between gastroenterologists & gastrointestinal surgeons with an understanding that an essential component of moving forward in this field is through collaboration. This AFS textbook has been developed by the American Foregut Society, a premier society for foregut disease and all chapters are written by experts in the field. Readership is intended for gastroenterologists, GI and thoracic surgeons, gastroenterology and general surgery residents and fellows, medical students, and integrated health members that manage foregut disease. All chapters follow an organized format that contains many graphs, tables, intraoperative photographs, and illustrations of techniques. This textbook provides the most up-to-date scientific information and will be the definitive resource to guide both the diagnosis and management of foregut disease for years to come.

Contents:

Part I: Basic Considerations

History of AFS (Reg Bell, John Lipham, Felice Schnoll-Sussman)
Components of foregut disease (Peter Kahrilas, Tom Demeester)
Credentialing guidelines for GI and GI surgery (Michael Smith, Michael Marohn)
Essential components of a foregut center & Centers of excellence concept (Rita Knotts, Peter Janu, Adriana Lazrescu)

Part II: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

GERD physiology and the role of the sphincter and crura (Ravi Mittal, John Lipham)
Testing for GERD including utility of FLIP (Ken Wang, Subhash Chandra)
Medical therapy for GERD (Priya Kathpalia, Philip Katz, Brodrick Ryan)
Personalized GERD management/GERD phenotypes (Krissy Lynch, John Pandolfino)
Laryngopharyngeal reflux and pulmonary manifestations (Walter Chan, Blair Jobe, Ross Bremner)
Esophageal hypersensitivity and functional dyspepsia (Lin Chang, Baha Moshiree, David Kunkel)
Endoscopic GERD therapies including ARMS, TIF, cTIF, and Stretta (Ken Chang, Ninh Nguyen)
Laparoscopic fundoplication (Brant Oeschlager, Justin Henning)
Laparoscopic magnetic sphincter augmentation (Reg Bell, Brian Louie)
Diagnosis and management of paraesophageal hiatal hernia (Collin Brathwaite, Michael Marohn)
Reoperative hiatal hernia repair (Sumeet Mittal, Adrian Parks)

Part III: Esophageal Neoplasm

Esophagus cancer epidemiology and genetics (David Wang, Mike Gibson)
Esophageal screening technologies (Garry Falk, Leggett Cadman)
Staging endoscopic ultrasound (Marcia Canto, Chandra Blackman)
Minimally invasive esophagectomy (Ninh Nguyen, Brian Louie, Mike Tran)
Endoscopic management of anastomotic leaks (Nav buttar, Steve Kucera)
Endoscopic palliative therapy for esophageal cancer (Zubair Malik, Sarah Enslin)

Part IV: Esophageal and Swallowing Disorders

Diagnostic testing including modified barium swallow radiography, high resolution manometry, and FLIP (Felice Schnoll-Sussman, Prakash Gyawali)
The Chicago classification (Peter Kahrilas, Dusty Carlson)
Cricopharyngeal disorders, endoscopic myotomy and adjuncts for Zenker's diverticulum (Greg Postma, Reza Shaker, Jeff Watkins)
Laparoscopic management of esophageal diverticulum (Mike Awad, Elbert Kuo)
Infective and spastic motor disorders of the esophagus (Marcelo Vela, Monik Lammi)
Therapies for esophageal motor disorders and functional disorders (Rena Yadlapati, Ellen Stein, Reena Chokshi)
Pneumatic dilation for achalasia (Joel Richter, Steve Clayton)
Laparoscopic/Robotic Heller myotomy and fundoplication (Santiago Horgan, Kevin Reavis)
POEM (Lee Swanstrom, Ken Chang)
Eosinophilic esophagitis (Ikuo Hirano, David Katzka)
Scleroderma (Dinesh Khanna, John Clarke)

Part V: Barrett's esophagus, esophageal injury, and benign disease of the esophagus

Screening for Barrett's esophagus (George Triadafilopoulos, Prasad Iyer)
Understanding histology of GERD and Barrett's esophagus (Chandrasoma Parakrama, Nick Shaheen)
Management of nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus (Michael Smith, Scott Corbett)
Management of dysplastic Barrett's esophagus (Blair Jobe, Robert Ganz, Sri Komanduri)
Management of early esophageal adenocarcinoma (Steve DeMeester, Stavros Stavropoulos)
Benign lesions of the esophagus including foregut duplication cyst, inlet patch, glycogen acanthosis (Nitin Ahuja, Daniela Jodorkovsky)
Management of esophageal stricture and caustic injury (Abe Khan, Karthik Ravi)
Management of Boerhaave's syndrome and iatrogenic esophageal perforation (Christy Dunst, Mark Onaitis, Patrick Okolo)

Part VI: Gastric disorders

Pathophysiology of gastroparesis (Tom Abell, Linda Nguyen)
Diagnostic testing and pharmacotherapy in gastroparesis (Brad Kuo, Michael Camilleri)
Endoscopic therapies for gastroparesis (Henry Parkman, Mouen Khashab)
Surgical treatments for gastroparesis (Richard Mccallum, Dmitri Oleynakov, Jeff Marks)
Cyclic vomiting syndrome, dumping, and Marijuana induces hyperemesis syndrome (Thangam Venkatesan, William Hasler)

Part VII: Obesity and metabolic disease

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (Brathwaite Collin, Michel Gagner)
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (Philip Schauer, Young Choi)
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (Ken Chang, Chris Thompson)
Intragastric Balloon therapies and other endoscopic interventions for weight loss (Reenm Sharaiha, Jaime Ponce)
Endoscopic management of bariatric complications (Chris Thompson, Abu-Dayyeh)
Management of GERD in post bariatric patients (Caitlyn Houghton, Leena Khaitin, Mayo clinic Scottsdale)

Part VIII: Gastric cancer and other gastroesophageal disorders

Epidemiology, genetics, and screening of gastric cancer (Vivian Armstrong, Rob Huang)
Endoscopic staging & resection for early gastric cancer (Jason Samersenna, Jooha Hwang)
Laparoscopic subtotal and total gastrectomy (Brian Smith, Luigi Bonavina)
Laparoscopic resection of gastric and esophageal submucosal tumors (Marcelo Hinojosa, Shaun Daly)
Peptic ulcer disease (Dan Lister, Barry Marshall)
MALT lymphoma (Daniel Tseng)

Part IX: Specific Considerations

Fellowship training in foregut surgery (Christy Dunst, Prakash Gyawali)
Advocacy (Raman Muthusamy, Dan Lister)
Robotic foregut surgery (Santiago Horgan, Tanuja Damani)
Coding and reimbursement (Paresh Shah, Abe Khan)
Future of foregut disease management (Lee Swanstrom, Philip Katz)