Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology Book

Contributors     vii
Preface     ix
Clinical decision making   Philip S. Schoenfeld     1
Economic analysis in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases   John M. Inadomi     14
Psychosocial factors in the care of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders   Bruce D. Naliboff   Jeffrey M. Lackner   Emeran A. Mayer     20
Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and related functional gastrointestinal complaints   Nicholas J. Talley   Gerald Holtmann     38
Approach to the patient with dysphagia, odynophagia, or noncardiac chest pain   Chandra Prakash Gyawali   Ray E. Clouse     62
Approach to the patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease   Joel E. Richter     83
Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease   Andrew H. Soll   David Y. Graham     99
Approach to the patient with gross gastrointestinal bleeding   Grace H. Elta   Mimi Takami     122
Approach to the patient with occult gastrointestinal bleeding   David A. Ahlquist   Graeme P. Young     152
Approach to screening for colorectal cancer   Graeme P. Young   James E. Allison     170
Approach tothe patient with unintentional weight loss   Andrew W. DuPont     183
Approach to the patient with obesity   Louis A. Chaptini   Steven R. Peikin     191
Approach to the patient with nausea and vomiting   William L. Hasler     205
Approach to the patient with abdominal pain   Pankaj Jay Pasricha     228
Approach to the patient with gas and bloating   William L. Hasler     255
Approach to the patient with acute abdomen   Rebecca M. Minter   Michael W. Mulholland     271
Approach to the patient with ileus and obstruction   Klaus Bielefeldt   Anthony J.Bauer     287
Approach to the patient with diarrhea   Don W. Powell     304
Approach to the patient with suspected acute infectious diarrhea   John D. Long   Ralph A. Giannella     360
Approach to the patient with constipation   Satish S.C. Rao     373
Approach to the patient with abnormal liver chemistries   Richard H. Moseley     399
Approach to the patient with jaundice   Raphael B. Merriman   Marion G. Peters     422
Approach to the patient with ascites and its complications   Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao     442
Approach to the patient with central nervous system and pulmonary complications of end-stage liver disease   Javier Vaquero   Andres T. Blei   Roger F. Butterworth     467
Approach to the patient with acute liver failure   Ryan M. Taylor   Robert J. Fontana     492
Approach to the patient with chronic viral hepatitis B or C   Sammy Saab   Hugo Rosen     516
Approach to the patient with a liver mass   John A. Donovan   Edward G. Grant     526
Approach to gastrointestinal and liver diseases in pregnancy   Willemijntje A. Hoogerwerf     534
General nutritional principles   David H. Alpers   Beth Taylor   Samuel Klein     557
Approach to the patient requiring nutritional supplementation   David H. Alpers   Beth Taylor   Samuel Klein     588
Genetic counseling for gastrointestinal patients   Cindy Solomon   Deborah W. Neklason   Angela Schwab   Randall W. Burt     624
Index     645