Probiotics: A Clinical Guide

Martin H. Floch MD; Adam S. Kim MD

 
 
 

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ISBN 13 978-1-55642-909-5

352 pp Soft Cover

Pub. Date: 2010

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Probiotics: A Clinical Guide is one of the first books on the market to present current and evidence-based recommendations for primary care providers and gastroenterologists on the use of probiotics as a way to treat specific diseases and disorders.

Why you will want Probiotics: A Clinical Guide:

  • Unique focus on the clinical use of probiotics in a wide variety of diseases
  • Comprehensive review of the science behind probiotics and probiotic products
  • In-depth review of current literature for specific diseases or disorders
  • Recommendations of the use of probiotics is supported by evidence-based clinical trials
  • Each chapter includes a table that outlines the exact probiotic organisms and dosages that are the most efficacious.

A glance at what is inside Probiotics: A Clinical Guide:

  • Basic Physiology
    • Intestinal microecology; stimulating the immune response, nutrients to nourish the organism, role in fermentation and metabolism, and much more…
  • Use in Clinical Medicine
    • Probiotics in children, adult infectious diarrhea, surgical infections, allergic disease, ulcerative colitis, crohn's disease, liver disease, and more…

Probiotics: A Clinical Guide by Dr. Martin Floch & Dr. Adam Kim is a ground-breaking book that will serve as a valuable reference and clinical guide for gastroenterologists, internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

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Contents

Dedication

About the Editors

Contributing Authors

Preface

Introduction

SECTION I: BASIC PHYSIOLOGY

Chapter 1: Intestinal Microecology

Martin H. Floch, MD, MACG, FACP, AGAF

Chapter 2: Intraluminal Defenses

Ailsa Hart, PhD and Siew C. Ng, PhD

Chapter 3: Barrier Function and the Immune Response

Karen L. Madsen, PhD

Chapter 4: Probiotics and the Allergic Response

Erika Isolauri, MD, PhD; Samuli Rautava, MD, PhD Kirsi Laitinen, PhD; and Seppo Salminen, PhD

Chapter 5: Quantification and Identification of Probiotic Organismsin Humans

Ian M. Carroll, PhD; Tamar Ringel-Kulka, MD, MPH; and Yehuda Ringel, MD

Chapter 6: Nutrients to Nourish the Organisms: Prebiotics and Fiber

Harry J. Flint, BSc, PhD and Sylvia H. Duncan, BSc, PhD

Chapter 7: Fermentation and the Effects of Probiotics on Host Metabolism

George T. Macfarlane, BSc, PhD; Sandra Macfarlane, BSc, PhD; and Katie L. Blackett, BSc, PhD

Chapter 8: Use of Probiotic Yogurts in Health and Disease

Mary Ellen Sanders, PhD and Daniel Merenstein, MD

Chapter 9: Single and Multiple Probiotic Organisms in Therapy of Disease

Pramod Gopal, PhD and Gerald W. Tannock, PhD

Chapter 10: Development of Cultured Dairy Probiotic Food Products

Miguel Freitas, PhD

SECTION II: USE IN CLINICAL MEDICINE

Chapter 11: Use of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Children

Jose M. Saavedra, MD, FAAP and Anne M. Dattilo, PhD, RD, CDE

Chapter 12: Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Erika C. Claud, MD and W. Allan Walker, MD

Chapter 13: The Role of Probiotics in Diarrheal Diseases

Stefano Guandalini, MD

Chapter 14: Probiotics and Their Role in Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Clostridium difficile Infection

Laurel H. Hartwell, MD and Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG

Chapter 15: Use of Probiotics in the Treatment and Prevention of Surgical Infections

Nada Rayes, MD; Peter Neuhaus, PhD; and Daniel Seehofer, MD

Chapter 16: Allergic Diseases

Shira Doron, MD and Sherwood L. Gorbach, MD

Chapter 17: Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis

Karen Kroeker, MD, FRCP(C) and Levinus A. Dieleman, MD, PhD

Chapter 18: Probiotic Treatment in Crohn's Disease

Karen Kroeker, MD, FRCP(C) and Richard N. Fedorak, MD, FRCP(C)

Chapter 19: Probiotics and Pouchitis

Mario Guslandi, MD, FACG

Chapter 20: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Eamonn M. M. Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP, FACG, FRCPI

Chapter 21: Use of Probiotics in the Prevention and Treatment of Radiation Enteritis

Giuseppe Famularo, MD, PhD; Vito Trinchieri, MD Luciana Mosca, PhD; and Giovanni Minisola, MD

Chapter 22: Probiotics and Helicobacter pylori

Adam S. Kim, MD

Chapter 23: Probiotics in Liver Disease

Adam S. Kim, MD and Anish Sheth, MD

Chapter 24: Probiotics Use in Bacterial Vaginosis and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis

Paola Mastromarino, PhD; Beatrice Vitali, PhD and Luciana Mosca, PhD

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