Full Description
Completely updated and revised! A comprehensive yet concise resource for diagnosing and treating the most common gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition issues.
Focusing on disorders that you are the most likely to encounter, Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition enables you to assess and interpret presenting signs and symptoms and formulate an effective plan for management.
Providing an effective combination of concise text and useful summary features, chapter content is clearly organized into four easily digestible sections:
• Approach to Main Symptoms includes algorithms providing diagnostic and/or therapeutic approach to commonly encountered signs and symptoms
• Main GI Diseases offers series of disorders individually described, including definition, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis, and treatment
• Less Frequently Encountered GI Diseases describes rare disorders pediatric residents may encounter during their rotation
• Commonly Used Drugs, Tests, and Techniques familiarizes you with frequently used drugs, imaging, and invasive diagnostic techniques, tests, and how they apply to GI disorders
From GI problems in the newborn, infectious diarrhea, and constipation to gastro-esophageal reflux, cystic fibrosis, and celiac disease, Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition provides everything you need to master all facets of this important subject.
Contents
Approach to Main Symptoms
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Constipation
Abdominal Pain
Upper GI Bleeding
Lower GI Bleeding
Failure to Thrive
Jaundice
Main GI Diseases
GI problems in the Newborn
Pyloric stenosis
Short bowel syndrome
Gastro-esophageal reflux
Eosinophilic Disorders (Esophagitis,gastro-enteropathies)
Infectious Diarrhea
Constipation
Food allergies and intolerance (FPIES, etc.)
H. pylori and Peptic-ulcer disease
Acute and chronic pancreatitis
Cystic Fibrosis
Celiac Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn's disease,ulcerative colitis)
Functional GI disorders with abdominal pain
Intussusception
Appendicitis
Liver disorders, including Hepatitis, NAFLD, andindications for liver transplant
Less Frequently Encountered GI Diseases
Microvillous inclusion disease
Glucose-Galactose Malabsorption
Sucrase-Isomaltase deficiency
Disorders of electrolyte transport (CongenitalNa-losing diarrhea, Chloridorrhea)
Hirschsprung disease
Autoimmune enteropathy
Menetrier disease
Vasculitides
Polyps and other tumors of the GI tract
Commonly used drugs, tests, and techniques
Drugs commonly used in pediatric GI: indications anddosages
Endoscopy and video-capsule
Imaging techniques
Enteral and parenteral nutrition
Tests commonly employed in pediatric GI and how tointerpret them
