Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology

Tadataka Yamada

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781405169103
• eBook ISBN: 9781444359398
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Gastroenterology & Hepatology

A Concise, Symptom-Based Textbook for Diagnosis and Decision Making in Clinical Practice

Over the past twenty years, thousands of physicians have come to depend on Yamada's Textbook of Gastroenterology. Its encyclopaedic discussion of the basic science underlying gastrointestinal and liver diseases as well as the many diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available to the patients who suffer from them was—and still is—beyond compare. This new textbook, Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology, is designed to inform practitioners on the features of the major clinical disorders in gastroenterology and hepatology from the point of view of the clinician observing signs and symptoms of a patient under care and management.

It is a practical guide to diagnosis and decision making in clinical practice and provides a rich source of information on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. Covering the full range of examinations in gastroenterology and hepatology, with extremely timely chapters on patients with dyspepsia, eating disorders, jaundice, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and on screening, Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology gives you easy access to approaches that a clinician might take to common symptoms and signs presented by patients with such disorders. The chapters include the epidemiology, history, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of the most commonly encountered disorders in gastroenterology and hepatology.

This textbook will be an invaluable resource whether you are a gastroenterologist, internist, surgeon, or other clinician who sees patients with gastrointestinal and liver disorders. It should be kept close at hand for frequent consultation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1: Clinical decision making
• 2: Economic analysis in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases
• 3: Psychosocial factors in the care of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders
• 4: Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and related functional gastrointestinal complaints
• 5: Approach to the patient with dysphagia, odynophagia, or noncardiac chest pain
• 6: Approach to the patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease
• 7: Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease
• 8: Approach to the patient with gross gastrointestinal bleeding
• 9: Approach to the patient with occult gastrointestinal bleeding
• 10: Approach to screening for colorectal cancer
• 11: Approach to the patient with unintentional weight loss
• 12: Approach to the patient with obesity
• 13: Approach to the patient with nausea and vomiting
• 14: Approach to the patient with abdominal pain
• 15: Approach to the patient with gas and bloating
• 16: Approach to the patient with acute abdomen
• 17: Approach to the patient with ileus and obstruction
• 18: Approach to the patient with diarrhea
• 19: Approach to the patient with suspected acute infectious diarrhea
• 20: Approach to the patient with constipation
• 21: Approach to the patient with abnormal liver chemistries
• 22: Approach to the patient with jaundice
• 23: Approach to the patient with ascites and its complications
• 24: Approach to the patient with central nervous system and pulmonary complications of end-stage liver disease
• 25: Approach to the patient with acute liver failure
• 26: Approach to the patient with chronic viral hepatitis B or C
• 27: Approach to the patient with a liver mass
• 28: Approach to gastrointestinal and liver diseases in pregnancy
• 29: General nutritional principles
• 30: Approach to the patient requiring nutritional supplementation
• 31: Genetic counseling for gastrointestinal patients
• Index