Management of digestive and liver disorders in infants and children Book

	Preface
	List of contributors
	Contents
1	Antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis of gastrointestinal malformations	3
2	Abdominal wall defects, omphalomesenteric remnants and lower intestinal obstructions	11
3	Congenital defects of the digestive tract	25
4	Advances in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy	39
5	Perspectives in endoscopic ultrasonography of the upper gastrointestinal tract	57
6	Advances in gastrointestinal motility disorders	63
7	Congenital webs, stenosis and cysts of the oesophagus	89
8	Achalasia and disorders of swallowing	95
9	Hiatal hernia and gastro-oesophageal reflux	103
10	Caustic oesophagitis: current concepts in management	117
11	Acute and chronic gastritis	123
12	Peptic ulcer in children	137
13	Gut-associated lymphoid system and primary immunodeficiencies	157
14	HIV and the gastrointestinal tract	167
15	Congenital selective defects of intestinal transport	175
16	Congenital deficiencies of microvillus membrane enzymes	205
17	Metabolism of lipids and related disorders	215
18	Protein-energy malnutrition	223
19	Investigations for malabsorption syndromes	251
20	Electron microscopy in chronic diarrhoea and intestinal malabsorption syndromes	265
21	Coeliac disease	271
22	Cow's milk protein intolerance	285
23	Protein-losing gastroenteropathies	297
24	The short bowel syndrome	307
25	Acute infectious diarrhoea	319
26	Secretory diarrhoea	351
27	Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in children	371
28	Chronic inflammatory bowel disease in children	381
29	Polyps and tumours of the gastrointestinal tract	403
30	Constipation, faecal soiling and disorders of continence	415
31	Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction syndromes	423
32	Congenital defects of exocrine pancreatic secretion	437
33	Acute and chronic pancreatitis	445
34	Cystic fibrosis: past, present and future	451
35	Metabolic causes of liver diseases	475
36	Normal and disturbed bilirubin metabolism	501
37	Bile acid metabolism and related disorders	517
38	Neonatal cholestasis	529
39	Nutritional and medical care in chronic cholestasis	537
40	Portal hypertension and ascites	543
41	Acute and chronic viral hepatitis	557
42	Autoimmune chronic hepatitis	567
43	Fulminant hepatitis and acute liver failure	577
44	Toxic hepatitis	595
45	Reye's syndrome	603
46	Metabolic investigations in Reye's and Reye-like syndrome	615
47	Wilson's disease	623
48	Diseases of the biliary tract	631
49	The hepato-pulmonary syndrome	641
50	Tumours of the liver and biliary tract	645
51	Immunohistochemical methods in the diagnosis of liver disorders	659
52	Liver transplantation in children
	Index	679