Book Description
- A “Gut Instincts” sidebar in each chapter with important clinical pearls for patient care
- Addresses the most frequently encountered clinical problems in digestive diseases
- Focuses primarily on diagnosis and management
- More than 50 algorithms, tables, and figures throughout the book
- Uses a coherent format while distributing high-yield information
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Pancreatic diseases
- Colon polyps
- Non alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Complications of portal hypertension
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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Contributing Authors
Preface
Foreword by Gary Gitnick, MD, FACG
Section I Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
Chapter 1 Nausea and Vomiting
Terri Getzug, MD
Chapter 2 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Daniel D. Cho, MD
Chapter 3 Dysphagia
Mark Ovsiowitz, MD
Chapter 4 Motility Disorders of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD, FACG
Chapter 5 Barrett’s Esophagus
Bennett E. Roth, MD
Chapter 6 Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancies
Zev A. Wainberg, MD, MSc
Chapter 7 Nutrition
Leo Treyzon, MD, MS
Chapter 8 Feeding Tubes: Placement and Management for
the Clinician
Stanley Dea, MD
Chapter 9 Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Kevin A. Ghassemi, MD and Dennis M. Jensen, MD
Chapter 10 Acid-Peptic Disorders
Thomas O. G. Kovacs, MD
Chapter 11 Functional Dyspepsia
Richard J. Saad, MD, MS and
William D. Chey, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP
Chapter 12 Pancreatic Diseases
James Farrell, MD
Chapter 13 Biliary Diseases
Yasser M. Bhat, MD and Inder M. Singh, MD
Chapter 14 Celiac Disease
Wilfred M. Weinstein, MD
Chapter 15 Bariatric Surgery Patients
Erik P. Dutson, MD, FACS and David Da Zheng, BS
Section II ?????Lower Gastrointestinal Tract
Chapter 16 Ulcerative Colitis
Gil Y. Melmed, MD, MS
Chapter 17 Crohn’s Disease
Marla Dubinsky, MD
Chapter 18 Pouchitis
Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD and
Bo Shen, MD, FACG
Chapter 19 Diarrhea
Lynn Shapiro Connolly, MD and
Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH
Chapter 20 Constipation
Lin Chang, MD
Chapter 21 Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Emeran A. Mayer, MD
Chapter 22 Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
Mark Pimentel, MD, FRCP(C) and
Gillian M. Barlow, PhD
Chapter 23 Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Kunut Kijsirichareanchai, MD and Rome Jutabha, MD
Chapter 24 Colorectal Cancer and Screening
Saeed Sadeghi, MD
Chapter 25 Colon Polyps
Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH
Chapter 26 Clostridium difficile
Theodoros Kelesidis, MD and Charalabos Pothoulakis, MD
Chapter 27 Other Common Gastrointestinal Infections
David A. Pegues, MD
Chapter 28 Ileus and Bowel Obstruction
Lilah F. Morris, MD and O. Joe Hines, MD
Chapter 29 Hemorrhoids
Jonathan Sack, MD
Chapter 30 Fissures, Fistulae, and Condyloma
Jonathan Sack, MD
Chapter 31 Diverticular Disease
Amy Lightner, MD and
James Yoo, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Section III ??????Hepatology
Chapter 32 Abnormal Liver Function Tests
Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD
Chapter 33 Hepatitis B
Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc and
Steven-Huy Han, MD, AGAF
Chapter 34 Hepatitis C
Ke-Qin Hu, MD
Chapter 35 Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Michel H. Mendler, MD, MS
Chapter 36 Alcoholic Liver Disease
Saro Khemichian, MD and John A. Donovan, MD
Chapter 37 Hereditary Liver Diseases
Fasiha Kanwal, MS, MSHS
Chapter 38 Cholestatic Liver Diseases
Francisco Antonio Durazo, MD, FACP
Chapter 39 Autoimmune Hepatitis
Vivian Ng, MD and Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, AGAF
Chapter 40 Complications of Portal Hypertension
Bruce A. Runyon, MD
Chapter 41 Abnormal Liver Tests in Pregnancy
Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc and Tram T. Tran, MD
Chapter 42 Fulminant Liver Failure and Transplantation
John P. Duffy, MD
Section IV Endoscopy
Chapter 43 Sedation
Jeremy M. Wong, MD and Samuel H. Wald, MD
Chapter 44 Anticoagulation and Antibiotics in Endoscopy
Kevin A. Ghassemi, MD
Chapter 45 Bowel Preparations for Colonoscopy
Wendy Ho, MD, MPH
Financial Disclosures
Index
Reviews
-Renee Young, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Gastroenterology
About the Editors
Attending the University of California at Berkeley and graduating with a major in Integrative Biology and a minor in English, he subsequently graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Esrailian was named intern, junior resident, and senior resident of the year during all 3 years of his residency training. He completed his gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA where he also obtained a Masters of Public Health degree with the assistance of a NIH-sponsored training grant. He is also a graduate of the Executive Program in Management from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He has authored or co-authored manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts on various topics within digestive and liver diseases, and his primary clinical interests include gastrointestinal endoscopy, inflammatory bowel diseases, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and functional gastrointestinal diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome.
In 2010, Dr. Esrailian was appointed to the Medical Board of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.