Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 5e Edition

Description:

Consult the leading text in the field that delivers the information you need to diagnose and treat pediatric gastrointestinal and liver diseases effectively. In one convenient and comprehensive volume, Drs. Robert Wyllie, Jeffrey S. Hyams, and Marsha Kay provide all the latest details on the most effective new therapies, new drugs, and new techniques in the specialty. In addition, the new two-color design throughout helps you find what you need quickly and easily.

Features:

Full-color endoscopy images to help improve your visual recognition

Definitive guidance from renowned international contributors who share their knowledge and expertise in this complex field

Detailed diagrams that accurately illustrate complex concepts and provide at-a-glance recognition of disease processes

More than 400 board review-style questions, answers, and rationales available in the eBook included with your purchase

New To This Edition:

New therapies for hepatitis B and C, new drugs for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, and an expanded discussion of the newest endoscopic and motility techniques available for pediatric patients

The most current information on diagnosing and treating abnormalities of protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism

New chapters on pancreatic transplantation and liver pathology

The latest surgical techniques for children with gastrointestinal conditions

Table Of Contents:

SECTION 1 BIOLOGIC ASPECTS OF GASTROINTESTINAL FUNCTION

1. Development of the Gastrointestinal Tract

2. Basic Aspects of Digestion and Absorption

3. Bile Acid Physiology and Alterations in the Enterohepatic Circulation

4. Indigenous Flora

5. Gastrointestinal Mucosal Immunology and Mechanisms of Inflammation

SECTION 2 CLINICAL PROBLEMS

6. Chronic Abdominal Pain of Childhood and Adolescence

7. Approach to the Child with a Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder

8. Vomiting and Nausea

9. Diarrhea

10. Colic and Gastrointestinal Gas

11. Functional Constipation and incontinence

12. Failure to Thrive/Growth Faltering

13. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

14. Obesity

15. Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents

16. Jaundice

17. Ascities

18. Caustic Ingestion and Foreign Bodies

19. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Esophagus

SECTION 3 THE ESOPHAGUS

20. Congenital Malformations of the Esophagus

21. Gastroesophageal Reflux

22. Achalasia and Other Motor Disorders

23. Other Diseases of the Esophagus

SECTION 4 THE STOMACH

24. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Stomach

25. Congenital Anomalies and Surgical Disorders of the Stomach

26. Gastritis, Gastropathy, and Ulcer Disease

27. Helicobacter Pylori in Childhood

28. Gastric Motility Disorders

29. Bezoars

SECTION 5 THE SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINES

30. Anatomy and Physiology of the Small and Large Intestines

31. Maldigestion and Malabsorption

32. Protracted Diarrhea

33. Protein-Losing Enteropathy

34. Celiac Disease

35. Short Bowel Syndrome

36. Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation: An update in the milieu of gut rehabilitation

37. Allergic and Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease

38. Infectious Diarrhea

39. Enteric Parasites

40. Gastrointestinal manifestations of immunodeficiency

41. Pediatric Polyposis Syndromes

42. Crohn's Disease

43. Ulcerative Colitis in Children and Adolescents

44. Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction

45. Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis

46. Disorders of the Anorectum: Fissures, Fistulas, Prolapse, Hemorrhoids, Tags

47. Neoplasms of the Gastrointestinal Tract

48. Neoplasms of the Liver

49. Other Diseases of the Small Intestine and Colon

50. Appendicitis

SECTION 6 PEDIATRIC SURGICAL DISORDERS

51. Intussusception in Infants and Children

52. Inguinal Hernias and Hydroceles

53. Meckel's Diverticulum and Other Omphalomesenteric Duct Remnants

54. Hirschsprung's Disease

55. Imperforate Anus

56. Abnormal Rotation and Fixation of the Intestine

57. Atresia and Stenosis of the Bowel

58. Newborn Abdominal Wall Defects

59. Stomas of the Small and Large Intestine

SECTION 7 GASTROINTESTINAL PROCEDURES

60. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and Related Techniques

61. Colonoscopy, Polypectomy, and Related Techniques

62. Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
63. Capsule Endoscopy and Small Bowel Enteroscopy

64. Gastrointestinal Motility Procedures

65. Gastrointestinal Pathology

SECTION 8 THE LIVER AND BILE DUCTS

66. Liver Pathology

67. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Liver and Bile Ducts

68. Neonatal Hepatitis

69. Biliary Atresia and Neonatal Disorders of the Bile Ducts

70. Pediatric Cholestatic Liver Disease

71. Mitochondrial Hepatopathies: Disorders of Fatty Acid Oxidation and the Respiratory Chain

72. Abnormalities of Hepatic Protein Metabolism

73. Abnormalities of Carbohydrate Metabolism and the Liver

74. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

75. Acute and Chronic Hepatitis

76. Portal Hypertnesion

77. Liver Failure

78. Liver Transplantation in Children

79. Diseases of the Gallbladder

SECTION 9 THE PANCREAS

80. Pancreatic Development

81. Cystic Fibrosis and Congenital Anomalies of the Exocrine Pancreas

82. Pancreatitis

83. Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auotransplantation and Pancreatic Allotransplantation

84. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

85. Infant and Toddler Nutrition

SECTION 10 NUTRITION

86. Nutritional Assessment

87. Tubes for Enteric Access

88. Parenteral Nutrition

89. Enteral Nutrition

90. Management of Diarrhea

91. Effects of Digestive Diseases on Bone Metabolism

92. Nutrition and Feeding for Children with Developmental Disabilities