For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series� has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Gastrointestinal and Liver Secrets, 6th Edition (formerly known as GI/Liver Secrets), offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style - making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
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Table of Contents
Section 1 EsophagusCHAPTER 1 GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
CHAPTER 2 ESOPHAGEAL CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN
CHAPTER 3 ACHALASIA
CHAPTER 4 SWALLOWING DISORDERS AND DYSPHAGIA
CHAPTER 5 ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
CHAPTER 6 ESOPHAGEAL ANOMALIES, INFECTIONS, AND NONACID INJURIES
CHAPTER 7 BARRETT ESOPHAGUS
CHAPTER 8 ESOPHAGEAL AND STOMACH PATHOLOGY
Section 2 Stomach
CHAPTER 9 GASTRITIS, PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE, NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS, AND HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION
CHAPTER 10 GASTRIC CANCER
CHAPTER 11 THICKENED GASTRIC FOLDS
CHAPTER 12 GASTROPARESIS
Section 3 Liver & Biliary Tract Disorders
CHAPTER 13 EVALUATION OF ABNORMAL LIVER TESTS
CHAPTER 14 MICROBIOME IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
CHAPTER 15 ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS C
CHAPTER 16 ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS B
CHAPTER 17 AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS-DIAGNOSIS
CHAPTER 18 AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS-TREATMENT
CHAPTER 19 PRIMARY BILIARY CHOLANGITIS AND PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS
CHAPTER 20 VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS IN GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER DISORDERS
CHAPTER 21 PREGNANCY AND LIVER DISEASE
CHAPTER 22 RHEUMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF HEPATOBILIARY DISEASES
CHAPTER 23 EVALUATION OF FOCAL LIVER MASSES
CHAPTER 24 DRUG-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE
CHAPTER 25 ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE, ALCOHOLISM, AND ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL
CHAPTER 26 VASCULAR LIVER DISEASE
CHAPTER 27 METABOLIC-ASSOCIATED FATTY LIVER DISEASE (MAFLD): NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE/METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION-ASSOCIATED STEATOTIC LIVER DISEASE (NAFLD/MASLD) AND METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION-ASSOCIATED STEATOHEPATITIS (MASH)
CHAPTER 28 OVERVIEW OF LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
CHAPTER 29 ASCITES
CHAPTER 30 LIVER ABSCESS
CHAPTER 31 INHERITABLE FORMS OF LIVER DISEASE
CHAPTER 32 LIVER HISTOPATHOLOGY
CHAPTER 33 HEPATOBILIARY CYSTIC DISEASE
CHAPTER 34 GALLBLADDER DISEASE: CAUSES, COMPLICATIONS, AND THERAPIES
CHAPTER 35 ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY PLUS SPHINCTER OF ODDI DYSFUNCTION
Section 4 Pancreatic Disorders
CHAPTER 36 ACUTE PANCREATITIS
CHAPTER 37 CHRONIC PANCREATITIS
CHAPTER 38 PANCREATIC CANCER
CHAPTER 39 CYSTIC LESIONS OF THE PANCREAS
Section 5 Small and Large Bowel Disorders
CHAPTER 40 CELIAC DISEASE
CHAPTER 41 CROHN’S DISEASE
CHAPTER 42 ULCERATIVE COLITIS
CHAPTER 43 EOSINOPHILIC GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES AND EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS
CHAPTER 44 SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH
Section 6 Colon Disorders
CHAPTER 45 COLON DISORDERS AND COLON CANCER
CHAPTER 46 CONSTIPATION AND FECAL INCONTINENCE
CHAPTER 47 DIVERTICULITIS
CHAPTER 48 SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE AND BENIGN ANORECTAL PATHOLOGIES
CHAPTER 49 COLITIS: CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE INFECTION, MICROSCOPIC COLITIS, AND RADIATION PROCTITIS/PROCTOPATHY
Section 7 General Symptoms and Conditions
CHAPTER 50 UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE
CHAPTER 51 LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT BLEEDING
CHAPTER 52 OCCULT AND OBSCURE GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
CHAPTER 53 EVALUATION OF ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
CHAPTER 54 ACUTE DIARRHEA
CHAPTER 55 CHRONIC DIARRHEA
CHAPTER 56 ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME AND THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
CHAPTER 57 ISCHEMIC BOWEL DISEASE
CHAPTER 58 NUTRITION, MALNUTRITION, AND PROBIOTICS
CHAPTER 59 SMALL BOWEL AND COLON PATHOLOGY
CHAPTER 60 FOREIGN BODIES AND THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
CHAPTER 61 FUNCTIONAL GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS AND IRRITABLE BOWEL
CHAPTER 62 ENDOSCOPIC CANCER SCREENING AND SURVEILLANCE
Section 8 Multisystem Manifestations of GI Disease
CHAPTER 63 RHEUMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES
CHAPTER 64 DERMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE
CHAPTER 65 DISEASES OF THE APPENDIX
Section 9 Gastrointestinal Radiology
CHAPTER 66 PLAIN FILM, BARIUM, AND VIRTUAL COLONOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 67 INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY I: CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 68 INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY II: FLUOROSCOPIC AND ANGIOGRAPHIC PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 69 NONINVASIVE GASTROINTESTINAL IMAGING: ULTRASOUND, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 70 NUCLEAR IMAGING
CHAPTER 71 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND
Section 10 Surgery and the Gastrointestinal Tract
CHAPTER 72 ESOPHAGEAL SURGERY
CHAPTER 73 SURGERY FOR PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE
CHAPTER 74 SURGICAL APPROACH TO THE ACUTE ABDOMEN
CHAPTER 75 COLORECTAL SURGERY: POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES, COLORECTAL MALIGNANCIES, AND BENIGN DISEASES
CHAPTER 76 GASTROINTESTINAL SECRETS: BARIATRIC SURGERY
CHAPTER 77 MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
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