Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Contributing Authors

iii

 

Chairman's Note

vi

 

Preface

vii

PART I

APPROACH TO SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS

 

1

Dysphagia   Faiz Mirza

1

2

Nausea and Vomiting   Vladimir Kushnir and C. Prakash Gyawali

9

3

Diarrhea   Hongha (Susan) T. Vu

20

4

Constipation   Reena V. Chokshi

33

5

Abdominal Pain   Akwi W. Asombang

41

6

Acuta Gastrointestinal Bleeding   Darrell M. Gray, II

49

7

Occult and Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding   John M. Iskander

62

8

Jaundice   Noura M. Sharabash

69

9

Abnormal Liver Chemistries   Noura M. Sharabash

81

10

Ascites   Mrudula V. Kumar

91

11

Malnutrition   Gowri Kularatna and Shelby A, Sullivan

99

PART II

APPROACH TO SPECIFIC DISEASES

 

12

Esophageal Disorders   Jonathan Seccombe and C. Prakash Gyawali

108

13

Gastric Disorders   Amit Patel and C. Prakash Gyawali

128

14

Small Bowel Disorders   A. Samad Soudagar and Anisa Shaker

142

15

Colon Neoplasms   Nishant J. Patel and Dayna S. Early

157

16

Inflammatory Bowel Disease   Heba Iskandar and Matthew A. Ciorba

169

17

Irritable Bowel Syndrome   Benjamin E. Cassell and Gregory S. Sayuk

190

18

Acute Liver Disease   Anil B. Seetharam and Kevin M. Korenblat

199

19

Chronic Liver Disease   Jennifer Shroff and Mauricio Lisker-Melman

221

20

Cirrhosis   Anupam Aditi and Jeffrey S. Crippin

253

21

Liver Transplantation   Anil B. Seetharam and Thomas A. Kerr

266

22

Pancreatic Disorders   Alexander Lee and Sreenivasa Jonnalagadda

276

23

Biliary Tract Disorders   Riad Azar and Andrew Reinink

301

24

Genetic.Testing in Gastrointestinal Diseases   Elizabeth Blaney and Chien-Huan Chen

315

25

Gastrointestinal Procedures   Sachih Wani and Daniel Mullady

327

 

Index

339