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GI/Liver Secrets Plus E-Book

GI/Liver Secrets Plus E-Book

Peter R McNally

(2014)

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Abstract

Stay up to date on today's most common GI and liver disorders and their management with GI/Liver Secrets Plus. This enhanced medical reference book is an excellent resource for understanding the physiology and therapy in hepatic and digestive disease. Whether preparing for an exam or quickly checking a clinical question, the user-friendly Secrets Series® style makes this book a valuable addition to your library!

  • Easily locate important information with bulleted lists, tables, boxes, short answers, and a highly detailed index to expedite reference.
  • Access a broad range of topics that focus on all of today's most common GI and liver disorders and their management.
  • Apply the latest knowledge and techniques with content thoroughly updated by leaders in the field.
  • Quickly review key concepts with improved "Plus" formatting, which employs a Socratic Q&A approach designed to simulate the types of questions that may be used on patient rounds.
  • Enhance your reference power through bulleted lists, mnemonics, "Key Points" summaries, lists of useful web sites, and practical tips from the authors.
  • Improve content knowledge with a special chapter containing "Top 100 Secrets," providing an overview of essential material for last-minute study or self-assessment.
  • Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Front Cover Cover
Inside Front Cover ES2
Dedication ii
GI/Liver Secrets Plus iii
Copyright iv
Contributors v
Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Contents xvii
Video TOC xxi
Top 100 Secrets 1
Diagnostic Testing 5
Confirmatory Testing 5
Chapter 1: SWALLOWING DISORDERS AND DYSPHAGIA 7
Bibliography 13
Chapter 2: GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE 14
Grade A: 16
Grade B: 16
Grade C: 16
Grade D: 16
Bibliography 19
Chapter 3: ESOPHAGEAL CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN 21
Bibliography 27
Chapter 4: ACHALASIA 29
Bibliography 35
Chapter 5: ESOPHAGEAL CANCER 36
Bibliography 42
Chapter 6: ESOPHAGEAL ANOMALIES, INFECTIONS, AND NONACID INJURIES 43
INFECTIONS 46
PILL AND NONACID INJURY 47
Bibliography 50
Chapter 7: BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS 51
Bibliography 54
Chapter 8: ESOPHAGEAL AND STOMACH PATHOLOGY 55
ESOPHAGUS 55
STOMACH 59
Bibliography 64
Chapter 9: GASTRITIS, PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE, NSAIDS, AND HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION 66
Bibliography 73
Chapter 10: GASTRIC CANCER 74
Bibliography 80
Chapter 11: THICKENED GASTRIC FOLDS 81
GASTRIC POLYPS 82
SUBEPITHELIAL TUMORS 82
Bibliography 86
Chapter 12: GASTROPARESIS 87
Bibliography 94
Chapter 13: EVALUATION OF ABNORMAL LIVER TESTS 95
Bibliography 100
Chapter 14: GENERAL CONCEPTS ON VIRAL HEPATITIS 101
Bibliography 104
Chapter 15: ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS C 106
Bibliography 114
Chapter 16: ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS B 115
Bibliography 120
Chapter 17: AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS: DIAGNOSIS 121
Bibliography 132
Chapter 18: AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS: TREATMENT 133
Bibliography 145
Chapter 19: PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS AND PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS 146
Bibliography 154
Chapter 20: VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS IN GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER DISORDERS 155
Bibliography 160
Chapter 21: PREGNANCY AND LIVER DISEASE 161
NORMAL ANATOMIC AND PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY 161
DISEASES DURING PREGNANCY 161
COINCIDENT OCCURRENCE 161
INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS OF PREGNANCY 162
ACUTE FATTY LIVER OF PREGNANCY 163
HEMOLYSIS, ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES, AND LOW PLATELETS 164
CARE OF PATIENTS WITH PREEXISTING LIVER DISEASE 165
Before and During Pregnancy 165
Contraception 165
MANAGEMENT OF UNDERLYING LIVER DISEASE 165
MANAGEMENT OF PORTAL HYPERTENSION 166
MANAGEMENT IN THE SETTING OF ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 166
PREVENTION OF VERTICAL TRANSMISSION 167
Bibliography 168
Chapter 22: RHEUMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF HEPATOBILIARY DISEASES 169
VIRAL HEPATITIS 169
AUTOIMMUNE AND OTHER LIVER DISEASES 171
Bibliography 174
Chapter 23: EVALUATION OF FOCAL LIVER MASSES 175
Bibliography 181
Chapter 24: DRUG-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE 183
Bibliography 192
Chapter 25: ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE, ALCOHOLISM, AND ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME 193
Bibliography 201
Chapter 26: VASCULAR LIVER DISEASE 202
BACKGROUND 202
BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME 203
PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS 206
SINUSOIDAL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME 207
HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC TELANGIECTASIA 207
PELIOSIS HEPATIS 207
ISCHEMIC HEPATITIS 208
CONGESTIVE HEPATOPATHY 208
MISCELLANEOUS 208
Bibliography 208
Chapter 27: NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE AND NONALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS 210
Bibliography 215
Chapter 28: LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 216
Bibliography 224
Chapter 29: ASCITES 225
Bibliography 235
Chapter 30: LIVER ABSCESS 237
Bibliography 241
Chapter 31: INHERITABLE FORMS OF LIVER DISEASE 243
HEMOCHROMATOSIS 243
α1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY 246
WILSON DISEASE 247
Bibliography 248
Chapter 32: LIVER HISTOPATHOLOGY 250
LIVER BIOPSY 250
HISTOLOGIC AND BASIC PATHOLOGIC FINDINGS 250
FATTY CHANGES AND STEATOHEPATITIS 254
CHRONIC HEPATITIS 254
DRUG INJURY 255
BILE DUCT DISEASE 256
GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION 257
INHERITED LIVER DISEASE 258
VASCULAR DISEASE 258
NEOPLASM 258
TRANSPLANTATION 258
Bibliography 258
Chapter 33: HEPATOBILIARY CYSTIC DISEASE 260
LIVER CYSTIC DISEASE 260
Bibliography 264
Chapter 34: GALLBLADDER DISEASE: STONES, CRYSTALS, AND SLUDGE 266
Bibliography 270
Chapter 35: ERCP PLUS SPHINCTER OF ODDI DYSFUNCTION 271
Bibliography 275
Chapter 36: ACUTE PANCREATITIS 277
Bibliography 285
Chapter 37: CHRONIC PANCREATITIS 287
Bibliography 295
Chapter 38: PANCREATIC CANCER 296
Bibliography 303
Chapter 39: CYSTIC LESIONS OF THE PANCREAS 306
Bibliography 307
Chapter 40: CELIAC DISEASE 308
Bibliography 312
Chapter 41: CROHN'S DISEASE 313
DIAGNOSIS 313
ETIOLOGIC FACTORS 315
NATURAL HISTORY 316
TREATMENT 317
Bibliography 319
Chapter 42: ULCERATIVE COLITIS 321
Bibliography 327
Chapter 43: EOSINOPHILIC GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE AND EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS 328
History and Physical Examination 329
Laboratory Tests 330
Endoscopy and Histopathologic Examination 330
Radiologic Evaluation 331
Dietary Modification 333
Steroids 333
Therapeutic Interventions 333
Bibliography 333
Chapter 44: SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH 334
Bibliography 338
Chapter 45: COLON DISORDERS AND COLON CANCER 339
Bibliography 347
Chapter 46: CONSTIPATION AND FECAL INCONTINENCE 349
Bibliography 357
Chapter 47: DIVERTICULITIS 358
Bibliography 364
Chapter 48: DISEASES OF THE APPENDIX 365
Bibliography 368
Chapter 49: COLITIS: PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS, MICROSCOPIC, AND RADIATION 369
PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS 369
MICROSCOPIC COLITIS 373
RADIATION COLITIS 374
Bibliography 375
Chapter 50: UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE 377
Bibliography 383
Chapter 51: LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT BLEEDING 384
Bibliography 390
Chapter 52: OCCULT AND OBSCURE GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING 391
Advantages of FIT Test 392
Advantages 394
Disadvantages 395
Contraindications 395
Bibliography 396
Chapter 53: EVALUATION OF ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN 398
Bibliography 403
Chapter 54: EVALUATION OF ACUTE INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA 405
EPIDEMIOLOGY 405
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 408
LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES AND SEQUELAE OF DIARRHEAL ILLNESS 410
Bibliography 412
Chapter 55: CHRONIC DIARRHEA 414
Traveler's Diarrhea 415
Epidemics and Outbreaks 415
Patients with AIDS 416
Institutionalized Patients 416
Malabsorption Syndromes 417
Maldigestion 417
Bibliography 425
Chapter 56: AIDS AND THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT 427
Bibliography 434
Chapter 57: ISCHEMIC BOWEL DISEASE 435
Arterial 437
Occlusive Mesenteric Ischemia 437
Nonocclusive Mesenteric Ischemia 437
Venous 437
Bibliography 441
Chapter 58: NUTRITION, MALNUTRITION, AND PROBIOTICS 443
Calculation of BMI 444
Perioperative Complications 450
Recommended Supplements 450
Bibliography 452
Chapter 59: SMALL BOWEL AND COLON PATHOLOGY 453
SMALL INTESTINE 453
Miscellaneous Conditions 455
Small Intestinal Neoplasms 456
Small Intestinal Lymphomas 457
LARGE INTESTINE 457
Miscellaneous Conditions 460
POLYPS AND NEOPLASMS 460
POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES 464
Vascular Lesions 466
DISEASES OF THE APPENDIX 466
DISEASES OF THE ANAL CANAL 466
Bibliography 467
Chapter 60: FOREIGN BODIES AND THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT 469
Bibliography 471
Chapter 61: FUNCTIONAL GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS AND IRRITABLE BOWEL 472
Bibliography 480
Chapter 62: ENDOSCOPIC CANCER SCREENING AND SURVEILLANCE 481
ESOPHAGUS 481
STOMACH AND SMALL BOWEL 483
PANCREAS 485
COLON 485
Bibliography 488
Chapter 63: RHEUMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES 490
ENTEROPATHIC ARTHRITIS 490
REACTIVE ARTHRITIS 495
WHIPPLE DISEASE 497
OTHER GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES 498
Bibliography 499
Chapter 64: DERMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE 500
Bibliography 502
Chapter 65: ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM 503
Bibliography 511
Chapter 66: PLAIN FILM, BARIUM, AND VIRTUAL RADIOGRAPHY 513
ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY 513
Important Pearl 514
CONTRAST MEDIA 516
SWALLOWING STUDIES 517
COLON AND RECTUM 519
CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY 520
VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY 521
Bibliography 522
Chapter 67: INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY I: CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING PROCEDURES 523
IMAGE-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSIES AND FLUID ASPIRATION AND DRAINAGE 523
HEPATIC INTERVENTIONS 525
SPLENIC INTERVENTIONS 529
PANCREATIC PROCEDURES 529
ADRENAL BIOPSY 530
Bibliography 531
Chapter 68: INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY II: FLUOROSCOPIC AND ANGIOGRAPHIC PROCEDURES 533
Bibliography 540
Chapter 69: NONINVASIVE GI IMAGING: ULTRASOUND, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING 541
GENERAL 541
LIVER IMAGING 541
DOPPLER LIVER IMAGING 548
BILIARY TRACT IMAGING 550
PANCREATIC IMAGING 552
Acute 552
Chronic 552
PERITONEAL IMAGING 554
Simple Ascites 554
Loculated Ascites 554
Complex Ascites 554
BOWEL IMAGING 555
Bibliography 559
Chapter 70: NUCLEAR IMAGING 560
Bibliography 568
Chapter 71: ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND 569
Bibliography 576
Chapter 72: ADVANCED THERAPEUTIC ENDOSCOPY 578
Single-Step EUS-Guided Pseudocyst Drainage 584
Bibliography 587
Chapter 73: ESOPHAGEAL SURGERY 589
ACHALASIA 589
ESOPHAGEAL CANCER 590
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX AND ESOPHAGEAL HERNIAS 592
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE 592
PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIAS 596
Bibliography 597
Chapter 74: SURGERY FOR PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE 599
Bibliography 608
Chapter 75: SURGICAL APPROACH TO THE ACUTE ABDOMEN 609
Bibliography 613
Chapter 76: COLORECTAL SURGERY: POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE 614
ANORECTAL DISEASE 615
COLORECTAL MALIGNANCIES 617
Rectal Cancer 617
COLON CANCER 618
Pro 618
Con 618
BENIGN COLON AND SMALL BOWEL DISEASE 618
Bibliography 620
Chapter 77: OBESITY AND SURGICAL WEIGHT LOSS 621
Bibliography 625
Chapter 78: MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY 626
Bibliography 629
Clinical Vignettes e1
CHAPTER 1-SWALLOWING DISORDERS AND DYSPHAGIA e1
CHAPTER 2-GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE e1
CHAPTER 3-ESOPHAGEAL CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN e2
CHAPTER 4-ACHALASIA e2
CHAPTER 6-ESOPHAGEAL ANOMALIES, INFECTIONS, AND NONACID INJURIES e3
CHAPTER 7-BARRETTS ESOPHAGUS e3
CHAPTER 10-GASTRIC CANCER e3
CHAPTER 11-THICKENED GASTRIC FOLDS e3
CHAPTER 12-GASTROPARESIS e4
CHAPTER 13-EVALUATION OF ABNORMAL LIVER TESTS e4
CHAPTER 14-GENERAL CONCEPTS OF VIRAL HEPATITIS e4
References e5
CHAPTER 15-ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS C e5
CHAPTER 16-ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS B e5
CHAPTER 17-AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS: DIAGNOSIS e6
CHAPTER 18-AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS: TREATMENT e6
CHAPTER 19-PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS AND PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS e6
CHAPTER 20-VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS IN GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER DISORDERS e6
CHAPTER 21-PREGNANCY AND LIVER DISEASE e7
CHAPTER 22-RHEUMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF HEPATOBILIARY DISEASES e7
CHAPTER 24-DRUG-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE e8
Laboratory e8
Drug-Induced Liver Injury e8
CHAPTER 25-ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE, ALCOHOLISM, AND ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME e8
CHAPTER 26-VASCULAR LIVER DISEASE e9
CHAPTER 27-NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE AND NONALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS e9
CHAPTER 28-LIVER TRANSPLANTATION e10
CHAPTER 29-ASCITES e11
CHAPTER 30-LIVER ABSCESS e11
CHAPTER 31-INHERITABLE FORMS OF LIVER DISEASE e11
LABORATORY RESULTS e11
CHAPTER 33-HEPATOBILIARY CYSTIC DISEASE e12
CHAPTER 34-GALLBLADDER DISEASE: STONES, CRYSTALS, AND SLUDGE e13
CHAPTER 35-ERCP PLUS SPHINCTER OF ODDI DYSFUNCTION e13
CHAPTER 36-ACUTE PANCREATITIS e13
Lab e13
First 24 Hours e14
References e14
CHAPTER 37-CHRONIC PANCREATITIS e14
Laboratory Results e15
References e15
CHAPTER 40-CELIAC DISEASE e15
CHAPTER 41-CROHNS DISEASE e15
Index 631
Inside Back Cover ES3