Principles of clinical gastroenterology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tadataka Yamada ; associate editors, David H. Alpers ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145822103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
• ISBN: 1-4443-5939-8; 1-282-02645-3; 9786612026454; 1-4443-0075-X; 1-4443-0076-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): YamadaTadataka; AlpersDavid H
• Disciplina: 616.3/3
• Soggetti: Gastrointestinal system - Diseases; Liver - Diseases; Gastroenterology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contributors; Preface; 1 Clinical decision making; 2 Economic analysis in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases; 3 Psychosocial factors in the care of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders; 4 Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and related functional gastrointestinal complaints; 5 Approach to the patient with dysphagia, odynophagia, or noncardiac chest pain; 6 Approach to the patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease; 7 Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease; 8 Approach to the patient with gross gastrointestinal bleeding; 9 Approach to the patient with occult gastrointestinal bleeding10 Approach to screening for colorectal cancer; 11 Approach to the patient with unintentional weight loss; 12 Approach to the patient with obesity; 13 Approach to the patient with nausea and vomiting; 14 Approach to the patient with abdominal pain; 15 Approach to the patient with gas and bloating; 16 Approach to the patient with acute abdomen; 17 ; Approach to the patient with ileus and obstruction; 18 Approach to the patient with diarrhea; 19 Approach to the patient with suspected acute infectious diarrhea; 20 Approach to the patient with constipation21 Approach to the patient with abnormal liver chemistries; 22 Approach to the patient with jaundice; 23 Approach to the patient with ascites and its complications; 24 Approach to the patient with central nervous system and pulmonary complications of end-stage liver disease; 25 Approach to the patient with acute liver failure; 26 Approach to the patient with chronic viral hepatitis B or C; 27 Approach to the patient with a liver mass; 28 Approach to gastrointestinal and liver diseases in pregnancy; 29 General nutritional principles; 30 Approach to the patient requiring nutritional supplementation31 Genetic counseling for gastrointestinal patients; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Concise, Symptom-Based Textbook for Diagnosis and Decision Making in Clinical Practice Over the past twenty years, thousands of physicians have come to depend on Yamada's Textbook of Gastroenterology. Its encyclopaedic discussion of the basic science underlying gastrointestinal and liver diseases as well as the many diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available to the patients who suffer from them was-and still is-beyond compare. This new textbook, Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology, is designed to inform practitioners on the features of the major clinical d