<p>From the reviews:</p>“This new book is a welcome contribution to literature. … The target group is primarily doctors in training, but also experienced surgeons, and radiologists gastromedisinere will find useful knowledge. … the content is supported by many instructive pictures … and tables / figures that make the book varied and easy to overview. … The overall impression is that this is a broad and very practical review of the topic of gastrointestinal bleeding, and I recommend the book for all education candidates in gastrofaget.” (T. Grimstad, Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, October, 2010)

Gastrointestinal bleeding is an age-old problem. The original description of g- trointestinalbleedingmayhavebeenfromGalenandhisworkconnectingdyspepsia andmelanoticstool. Thechangesinourmanagementofgastrointestinalbleeding overthecenturieshavebeendrivenbynaturalalterationsinthespectrumofdiseases, expanding our understanding of these diseases and the never ending advances in technologyandpharmacologythathaveoccurredrelativetoGIdiseases. Academic interestingastrointestinalbleedingpeakedinthelasthalfofthetwentiethcentury withtheexpandingroleofsurgery,thediscoveryofacid-basedpepticulcerthe- pies,andtheriseof?exibleendoscopyandculminatedinthedescriptionofh. pylori as a causative agent for ulcer disease. More recently there has been a decrease incidenceinbleedingdiseasesofthegutandthereforeadecreasinginterestinthe scholarlywritingaboutthesediseases. Therehasnotbeenamajortextbookwritten aboutgutbleedinginover10yearsandthereforetheintentionofthistextbookisto ?llthatvoidbyprovidingareviewofacomprehensiveapproachtouppergut,mid, andlowergutbleeding. CliniciansatDukeUniversitywhohaveacommoninterestinthegastrointes- naltracthavecollaboratedintheconstructionofthistext. Thisefforthasbrought together surgeons, gastroenterologists, and radiologists, to carefully chronicle the presentation, diagnosis, and management of modern day causes of gastrointes- nal bleeding. These co-authors concentrate on some of the latest innovations in the endoluminal and minimally invasive techniques that characterize the current approaches to these diseases. Emphasis has been placed on capsule endoscopy, double-balloon endoscopy, laparoscopic peptic ulcer surgery, and angiographic diagnosis and management techniques. The text has been written in such a way thatthereadercanquicklyreviewaspeci?ccauseofGIbleedingpriortomanaging ofsuchapatient. Weexpectthistextwillbeusedwiththesameimmediacyasthe diseasespresent. Wehopethatthistextprovidesafoundationforlearningformedicalstudents, interns,residents,andpractitionerswhoencounterthesecriticallyillanddif?cultto managepatients. Durham,NC,USA AuroraD. Pryor Durham,NC,USA TheodoreN. Pappas Durham,NC,USA MalcolmStanleyBranch v Acknowledgment TheeditorswouldliketothankMs. VirginiaCashforherhelpinthepreparation andcoordinationofthetext. vii Contents Part I Upper GI Bleeding Stabilization of Patients Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. ..3 ErrolL. BushandMarkL. Shapiro Urgent Workup for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding...13 LorettaErhunmwunseeandSandhyaA. Lagoo-Deenadayalan Management of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding ...23 KekiBalsaraandLisaPickett Management of Dieulafoy's Lesions ...31 SerainaK. Faes,BrianR. Untch,ClaireEdwards,JohnTurner, MartinPoleski,andDouglasS. Tyler Management of Bleeding Peptic Ulcer Disease ...39 JamesC. PadussisandTheodoreN. Pappas Management of Unusual Sources of Upper GI Bleeding...65 ElisabethTracyandJanetTuttle-Newhall Mallory-Weiss Syndrome...79 JacobN. SchroderandMalcolmS. Branch Management of Bleeding Small Bowel Tumors...85 KeriE. LunsfordandAuroraD. Pryor Management of Bleeding from the Bile Duct ...103 CarlosE. MarroquinandBridgetM. Marroquin Management of Bleeding from the Pancreas...
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This book covers all aspects of bleeding in a systemic approach organized by the site of bleeding. It offers a step-by-step approach through appropriate diagnosis and management strategies including surgical, endoscopic, medical and angiographic techniques.
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Upper GI Bleeding.- Stabilization of Patients Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Urgent Workup for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Management of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding.- Management of Dieulafoy’s Lesions.- Management of Bleeding Peptic Ulcer Disease.- Management of Unusual Sources of Upper GI Bleeding.- Mallory–Weiss Syndrome.- Management of Bleeding Small Bowel Tumors.- Management of Bleeding from the Bile Duct.- Management of Bleeding from the Pancreas.- Lower GI Bleeding.- Urgent Workup of Lower GI Bleeding.- Bleeding Hemorrhoids.- Management of Bleeding Colitis and Colonic Diverticular Disease.- Colonic Arteriovenous Malformations.- Bleeding Colonic Tumors.- GI Bleeding from an Unknown Source.- Evaluation of the Guaiac Positive Patient.- Obscure GI Bleeding: Capsule and Double-Balloon Techniques.- Provocative Angiography.- The Unstable Patient with Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Surgical and Non-surgical Management.
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The diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal bleeding is multidisciplinary by nature involving surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists. Due to various pathologies, it involves upper gut, lower gut and occult bleeding. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management covers all aspects of bleeding in a systemic approach organized by the site of bleeding. Elective and emergent bleeding is also covered. This volume provides a practical text for the practitioner in addressing patient issues in their practice, with a step-by-step approach through appropriate diagnosis and management strategies including surgical, endoscopic, medical and angiographic techniques, making this a truly multidisciplinary and disease based text. Specific sections in the book are crafted by experts in each topic. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management provides a ready reference that will help physicians understand and work through diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas and will be of great value to full range of practitioners that manage patients with bleeding including surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists as well as residents and fellows in these subspecialties.
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Step-by-step approach through appropriate diagnosis and management Written by world renowned experts in gastrointestinal diseases Provides practical management of specific bleeding sources Multidisciplinary and disease based text Specific sections crafted by experts in each topic Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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ISBN
9781489983992
Publisert
2014-09-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Professional/practitioner, P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet