Synopses & Reviews
The Mount Sinai Expert Guides provide quick access, point-of-care, specialist clinical information on all relevant diseases in each therapeutic area for the busy physician, with strong emphasis on treatment algorithms, text boxes and short, to the point bulleted text to summarize all aspects of each disease.
Each title is edited by a renowned specialist from Mount Sinai, who will be responsible for recruiting key faculty members to author the chapters. The books are to be mainly disease-focused, with the different diseases/conditions in that therapeutic area to make up the bulk of each book’s TOC. A chapter template has been developed which each author in every book will be asked to stick to, so as to ensure consistency across both the chapters in each book and also from book to book in the series.
Scott Friedman, Chief of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai and former president of the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases will be the series editor.
Edited by Bruce Sands, Chief of the GI division at Mount Sinai, the Mount Sinai Expert Guide to Gastroenterology will provide specialists and fellows with an extremely clinical, affordable and accessible handbook on gastroenterology, to be used as a point-of-care resource in the hospital and clinical setting.
Divided up into 2 sections, the first on the approach to patients presenting with symptoms and the second on the specific diseases in gastroenterology, the book will present the very best in expert information in an attractive, easy to navigate informative and well-structured manner, with features such as key points, potential pitfalls, management algorithms, and national/international guidelines on treatment.It will be used as a rapid-reference guide to GI disorders, by specialists, fellows and also residents in the clinical setting.
Synopsis
Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Gastroenterology will provide physicians with an extremely clinical and accessible handbook covering the major GI diseases and symptoms, their diagnosis and clinical management.
Perfect as a point-of-care resource on the hospital wards and also as a refresher for board exam preparation, the focus throughout is on providing rapid reference, essential information on each disease to allow for quick, easy browsing and assimilation of the must-know information. All chapters follow a consistent template including the following features:
- An opening bottom-line/key points section
- Classification, pathogenesis and prevention of disease
- Evidence-based diagnosis, including relevant algorithms, laboratory and imaging tests, and potential pitfalls when diagnosing a patient
- Disease management including commonly used medications with dosages, when to perform surgery, management algorithms and how to prevent complications
- How to manage special populations, ie, in pregnancy, children and the elderly
- The very latest evidence-based results, major society guidelines (ASG/ACG/UEGW) and key external sources to consult
In addition, the book comes with a companion website housing extra features such as case studies with related questions for self-assessment, key patient advice and ICD codes. Each guide also has its own mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access to the key features wherever you may be.
If you specialise in gastroenterology and require a concise, practical guide to the clinical management of GI disease, bought to you by one of world's leading hospitals, then this is the perfect book for you.
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Table of Contents
Contributors
Series foreword
Preface
About the Companion Website
SECTION 1: Approach to specific complaints
1 Approach to Dysphagia
Gina R. Sam
2 Approach to Nausea and Vomiting
Aimee L Lucas
3 Approach to Abdominal Pain
Jonathan Z. Potack
4 Approach to Diarrhea
Bruce E. Sands
5 Approach to Constipation
Mark A. Korsten, Hanumantha R. Ancha, Miriam Kaminski
6 Approach to Fecal Incontinence
Sita S. Chokhavatia
7 Approach to Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Blair S. Lewis, Christina A. Tennyson
8 Approach to Nutrition Assessment
Laura Manning, Lauren K. Schwartz
9 Approach to the Pregnant Patient with GI Disorders
Elana A. Maser
SECTION 2: Specific diseases / conditions
10 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Lawrence B. Cohen
11 Barrett's Esophagus
Sharmila Anandasabapathy
12 Eosinophilc Esophagitis
Brijen J. Shah
13 Esophageal Motility Disorders
Barry W. Jaffin
14 Esophageal Disorders Related to Medication, Trauma, and Infection
Stuart I. Finkel
15 Management of Foreign Bodies in the GI Tract
James George
16 Functional dyspepsia
Sita S. Chokhavatia
17 Peptic Ulcer Disease
Neville D. Bamji and Ariel A. Benson
18 Helicobacter pylori Treatment and Eradication
Anthony A. Weiss
19 Gastroparesis
Eric S Goldstein
20 GI Complications of Obesity Surgery
Jonathan Z. Potack
21 Tumors of the Foregut
Michelle Kang Kim
22 Short Bowel Syndrome and Malnutrition
Lauren K. Schwartz and Benjamin Cohen
23 Bacterial Overgrowth
Peter H. Rubin
24 Celiac Disease
Ariel A. Benson and James Aisenberg
25 Infectious Enteritis and Colitis; Bacterial Food Poisoning; Intestinal Protozoa and Helminthic Infestations Jenny Sauk
26 Immunodeficiency and the GI Tract
Saurabh Mehandru
27 GI Stromal Tumors
Peter E. Legnani
28 Neuroendocrine Tumors
Richard R.P. Warner
29 Pancreatitis (Acute, Chronic, Autoimmune)
Jeffrey R. Lewis and Yuki Young
30 Pancreatic Cysts and Tumors
Christopher J. DiMaio
31 Disorders of the Biliary Tract
Ron Palmon and Kalpesh K. Patel
32 GI Complications of Transplant
Vera Kandror Denmark
33 Vascular Lesions of the GI Tract
Jose Romeu
34 Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Charles D. Gerson
35 Crohn's Disease
Joana Torres and Jean-Frédéric Colombel
36 Ulcerative Colitis
Adam F. Steinlauf and Daniel H. Present
37 Complications of Restorative Proctocolectomy with Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis
Joel J. Bauer & Stephen R. Gorfine
38 Radiation Enterocolitis
Prashant Kedia, Adam Steinlauf
39 Clostridium difficile
Gerald Friedman
40 Ischemic Disease of the Small and Large Bowel
Ari Grinspan, Asher Kornbluth
41 Diverticular Diseases of the Colon
David B. Sachar
42 Colonoscopic Polypectomy
Jerome D. Waye
43 Adenocarcinoma of Large Bowel and Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndromes
Steven H. Itzkowitz
44 Surveillance for Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Thomas A. Ullman
45 Disorders of the Anus and Rectum
Alexander J Greenstein and Sergey Khaitov
46 Complications of GI Endoscopy
James F. Marion
Index