Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition highlights the most common clinical concerns seen on a regular basis by the practicing pediatric gastroenterologist.

Features:

• Reviews the disorders and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in neonates and children
• Provides expert advice from an international panel of experts
• Contains more than 200 color and black and white illustrations
• Highlights the different realities of gastroenterological and nutritional problems in different clinical settings

Contents

Congenital Disorders

• Microvillus Inclusion Disease and Epithelial Dysplasia
• Congenital Problems of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Diseases of the Esophagus and Stomach

• Infectious Esophagitis
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• Helicobacter pylori Gastritis and Peptic Ulcer Disease
• Other Gastritides

Infectious Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract

• HIV and the Intestine
• Viral Diarrhea
• Bacterial Infections
• Intestinal Parasites
• Post-Infectious Persistent Diarrhea in Developing Countries
• Small-Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth

Functional Disorders and Neurogastroenterology

• Functional Abdominal Pain and Other Functional Bowel Disorders
• Disorders of Sucking and Swallowing
• Constipation and Encopresis in Childhood
• Hirschprung's Disease and Intestinal Neuronal Dysplasias
• Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction in Childhood
• Gastrointestinal and Nutritional Problems in the Neurologically Handicapped Child
• Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome

Inflammatory and Immune-Mediated Disorders of the GI Tract

• Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
• Food Allergies
• Crohn's Disease
• Indeterminate Colitis
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Vasculitides
• Celiac Disease
• Protein-Losing Enteropathy
• Short-Bowel Syndrome
• Lymphonodular Hyperplasia

Nutritional Problems

• Malnutrition
• Biotherapeutic and Nutraceutical Agents
• Enteral Nutrition
• Parenteral Nutrition in Infants and Children

Gastrointestinal Disorders and Nutrition in Neonatal Age

• Gastrointestinal Problems of the Newborn
• Enteral Nutrition in Preterm Infants
• Parenteral Nutrition in Preterm Infants

Approach to Selected Gastrointestinal Disorders

• Approach to Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Approach to the Child with Acute Diarrhea
• Approach to the Child with Acute Abdomen
• Management of Ingested Foreign Bodies
• Medical Aspects of Intestinal Transplantation

Surgical and Neoplastic Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract

• Intussusception
• Meckel's Diverticulum
• Acute Appendicitis
• Vascular Lesions of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Childhood
• The Role of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease
• Polyps and Other Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Index

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