Top 100 Secrets I. Esophagus 1. Swallowing Disorders and Dysphagia 7   Francis C. Okeke and John O. Clarke 2. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 14   Fehmi Ates and Michael Vaezi 3. Esophageal Causes of Chest Pain 21   Vito V. Cirigliano and Fouad J. Moawad 4. Achalasia 29   Joel E. Richter 5. Esophageal Cancer 36   Peter R. McNally, Nimish B. Vakil and John C. Deutsch 6. Esophageal Anomalies, Infections, and Nonacid Injuries 43   Mary A. Atia and Francisco C. Ramirez 7. Barrett's Esophagus 51   Nimish B. Vakil 8. Esophageal and Stomach Pathology 55   Shalini Tayal II. Stomach 9. Gastritis, Peptic Ulcer Disease, NSAIDS, and Helicobacter pylori Infection 66   Elizabeth Coss and Byron Cryer 10. Gastric Cancer 74   John C. Deutsch 11. Thickened Gastric Folds 81   Ryan M. Kwok and Patrick E. Young 12. Gastroparesis 87   Richard W. McCallum and Joseph K. Sunny Jr. III. Liver & Biliary Tract Disorders 13. Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Tests 95   Emily Carey and William D. Carey 14. General Concepts on Viral Hepatitis 101   Christina Hanson, Gail Pearson and Marcelo Kugelmas 15. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C 106   Jorge L. Herrera 16. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis B 115   Jorge L. Herrera 17. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Diagnosis 121   Albert J. Czaja 18. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Treatment 133   Albert J. Czaja 19. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis 146   John E. Eaton, Jayant A. Talwalkar and Nicholas F. LaRusso 20. Vaccinations and Immunoprophylaxis in Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders 155   Henry A. Horton, Hayoon Kim and Gil Y. Melmed 21. Pregnancy and Liver Disease 161   Devina Bhasin and Roshan Shrestha 22. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Hepatobiliary Diseases 169   Sterling G. West 23. Evaluation of Focal Liver Masses 175   Mark W. Russo and Roshan Shrestha 24. Drug-Induced Liver Disease 183   Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Cemal Yazici and Mark W. Russo 25. Alcoholic Liver Disease, Acoholism and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome 193   Clark Kulig 26. Vascular Liver Disease 202   Dawn M. Torres and Angelo H. Paredes 27. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis 210   Dawn M. Torres and Stephen A. Harrison 28. Liver Transplantation 216   Stevan A. Gonzalez and James F. Trotter 29. Ascites 225   Phillip S. Ge, Carlos Guarner and Bruce A. Runyon 30. Liver Abscess 237   Jorge L. Herrera and Christopher D. Knudsen 31. Inheritable Forms of Liver Disease 243   Bruce R. Bacon 32. Liver Histopathology 250    Kiyoko Oshima 33. Hepatobiliary Cystic Disease 260    Joshua Friedman and Marianne Augustine 34. Gallbladder Disease: Stones, Crystals and Sludge 266   Cynthia W. Ko and Sum P. Lee 35. ERCP Plus Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction 271   Raj J. Shah IV. Pancreatic Disorders 36. Acute Pancreatitis 277   Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin 37. Chronic Pancreatitis 287   Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin 38. Pancreatic Cancer 296   Shajan Peter, Ji Young Bang and Shyam Varadarajulu 39. Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas 305   Brenda Hoffman and Jason R. Roberts V. Small and Large Bowel Disorders 40. Celiac Disease 308   Daniel A. Leffler and Rohini R. Vanga 41. Crohn's Disease 313   Bret A. Lashner and Aaron Brzezinski 42. Ulcerative Colitis 321   Ramona O. Rajapakse and Burton I. Korelitz 43. Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis 328   Shahan Fernando and Glenn T. Furuta 44. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth 334   Catherine S. Manolakis, Travis J. Rutland and Jack A. Di Palma VI. Colon Disorders 45. Colon Disorders and Colon Cancer 339   Carole Macaron and Carol Ann Burke 46. Constipation and Fecal Incontinence 349   Reena Chokshi and Suzanne Rose 47. Diverticulitis 358   Luca Stocchi 48. Diseases of the Appendix 365   Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen 49. Colitis: Pseudomembranous, Microscopic, and Radiation 369   Stephen M. Vindigni, Jill M. Watanabe, and Christina M. Surawicz VII. General Symptoms and Conditions 50. Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage 377   Davinder Sandhu and Lisa Strate  51. Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding 384   Joseph G. Cheatham and John D. Horwhat 52. Occult and Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding 391   Mitchell S. Cappell 53. Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain 398   John S. Goff 54. Evaluation of Acute Infectious Diarrhea 405   Ramiro L. Gutierrez, Wesley R. Campbell, Scott E. Cunningham, Mark S. Riddle and Patrick E. Young 55. Chronic Diarrhea 414   Lawrence R. Schiller 56. AIDS and the Gastrointestinal Tract 427   C. Mel Wilcox and Klaus E. Mönkemüller  57. Ischemic Bowel Disease 435   Siobhan Proksell, Amar R. Deshpande, and Arvey I. Rogers 58. Nutrition, Malnutrition and Probiotics 443   Bonnie Jortberg and Peter R. McNally 59. Small Bowel and Colon Pathology 453   Shalini Tayal 60. Foreign Bodies and the Gastrointestinal Tract 469   George Triadafilopoulos 61. Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Irritable Bowel 472   Anthony Lembo and Vivian Cheng 62. Endoscopic Cancer Screening and Surveillance 481   David P. Jones VIII. Multisystem Manifestations of GI Disease 63. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Diseases 490   Sterling G. West 64. Dermatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease 500   James E. Fitzpatrick and Lori D. Prok 65. Endocrine Aspects of Gastrointestinal System 503   Geetha Gopalakrishnan and Harikrashna Bhatt IX. Gastrointestinal Radiology 66. Plain Film, Barium and Virtual Radiography 513   Michael Reiter 67. Interventional Radiology I: Cross-Sectional Imaging Procedures 523    Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ 68. Interventional Radiology II: Fluoroscopic and Angiographic Procedures 533   Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ 69. Noninvasive GI Imaging: Ultrasound, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging 541   Michael G. Fox and Ryan Kaliney 70. Nuclear Imaging 560   Won S. Song 71. Endoscopic Ultrasound 569     Linda S. Lee X. Surgery and the GI Tract 72. Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy 578   Daphne Antillon and Mainor Antillon 73. Esophageal Surgery 589   Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis 74. Surgery for Peptic Ulcer Disease 599   Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis 75. Surgical Approach to the Acute Abdomen 609   Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen 76. Colorectal Surgery: Polyposis Syndromes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease 614   Martin D. McCarter 77. Obesity and Surgical Weight Loss 621   Jonathan A. Schoen 78. Minimally Invasive Surgery 626   John J. Tiedeken and Anthony LaPorta Clinical Vignettes (Online Only)   Peter R. McNally