Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- PART 1: Symptoms, Syndromes, and Scenarios -- Discomfort above the diaphragm -- CHAPTER 1: Heartburn and noncardiac chest pain -- CHAPTER 2: Dysphagia and odynophagia -- Discomfort below the diaphragm -- CHAPTER 3: Chronic or recurrent abdominal pain -- CHAPTER 4: Dyspepsia: ulcer and non-ulcer/bloating and early satiety/belching and rumination -- CHAPTER 5: Nausea and vomiting -- Disorders of defecation -- CHAPTER 6: Diarrhea -- CHAPTER 7: Fecal incontinence -- CHAPTER 8: Rectal bleeding -- CHAPTER 9: Anorectal pain and pruritus ani -- Generalized ill health -- CHAPTER 10: Functional gastrointestinal disease -- CHAPTER 11: Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa -- CHAPTER 12: Weight loss -- CHAPTER 13: Gastrointestinal causes of anemia and occult bleeding -- CHAPTER 14: Pruritus -- CHAPTER 15: Jaundice -- CHAPTER 16: Spotting and dealing with signs of chronic liver disease: a guided tour -- CHAPTER 17: Ascites -- CHAPTER 18: Abnormal liver function tests -- Urgent situations -- CHAPTER 19: Acute abdominal pain -- CHAPTER 20: Hematemesis and melena -- CHAPTER 21: Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding -- Scenarios -- CHAPTER 22: H. pylori: its diseases and management -- CHAPTER 23: Being on nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs -- CHAPTER 24: Gastrointestinal problems in the elderly -- CHAPTER 25: Preventing GI cancer in those at risk -- CHAPTER 26: Problems in pediatrics -- PART 2: Diseases of the Gut and Liver -- Section 1: Disorders of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract -- Esophageal: benign -- CHAPTER 27: Gastroesophageal reflux disease -- CHAPTER 28: Benign esophageal strictures and caustic esophageal injury -- Esophageal: malignant and pre-malignant -- CHAPTER 29: Barrett's esophagus -- CHAPTER 30: Esophageal cancer.

Upper gastrointestinal infections -- CHAPTER 31: Infections of the esophagus and stomach -- Gastroduodenal: benign -- CHAPTER 32: Peptic ulcer -- CHAPTER 33: Gastritis -- Gastroduodenal: malignant and pre-malignant -- CHAPTER 34: Adenocarcinoma (gastric cancer and miscellaneous malignancy) -- CHAPTER 35: Gastric lymphoma -- Motility disorders -- CHAPTER 36: Esophageal motility disorders -- CHAPTER 37: Gastric motility disorders -- Section 2: Disorders of the Small and Large Bowel -- Food, nutrition and malabsorption -- CHAPTER 38: Food allergy and intolerance -- CHAPTER 39: Maldigestion and malabsorption -- CHAPTER 40: Celiac disease -- CHAPTER 41: Short bowel syndrome -- CHAPTER 42: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth -- CHAPTER 43: Bile acid malabsorption -- CHAPTER 44: Protein-losing disorders of the gastrointestinal tract -- Intestinal infections and infestations -- CHAPTER 45: Infective diarrhea -- CHAPTER 46: Travelers' diarrhea -- CHAPTER 47: Abdominal tuberculosis -- CHAPTER 48: Parasites -- Inflammatory bowel disease -- CHAPTER 49: Ulcerative colitis -- CHAPTER 50: Crohn's disease -- CHAPTER 51: Indeterminate colitis -- CHAPTER 52: Microscopic colitis -- CHAPTER 53: Eosinophilic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract -- CHAPTER 54: Pseudomembranous colitis -- CHAPTER 55: Ischemia/ischemic colitis -- Malignant tumors -- CHAPTER 56: Small bowel tumors -- CHAPTER 57: Biology and genetics of colorectal cancer and polyps and polyposis -- CHAPTER 58: Colorectal cancer: screening and surveillance -- CHAPTER 59: Colorectal cancer: a multidisciplinary approach -- Motility disorders -- CHAPTER 60: Obstruction and volvulus -- CHAPTER 61: Constipation and constipation syndromes -- CHAPTER 62: Irritable bowel syndrome -- CHAPTER 63: Diverticular disease of the colon -- CHAPTER 64: Megacolon and pseudo-obstruction.

Other disorders of the small and large bowel -- CHAPTER 65: Splanchnic vascular disorders -- CHAPTER 66: Drug-induced damage to the small and large intestine -- CHAPTER 67: Acute appendicitis -- Anorectal diseases -- CHAPTER 68: Anorectal diseases -- Section 3: Diseases of the Pancreas and Biliary Tract -- Pancreas -- CHAPTER 69: Acute pancreatitis -- CHAPTER 70: Chronic pancreatitis -- CHAPTER 71: Pancreatic exocrine tumors -- CHAPTER 72: Cysts and pseudocysts of the pancreas -- CHAPTER 73: Development and miscellaneous abnormalities -- Biliary tract -- CHAPTER 74: Cholelithiasis, choledocholithiasis, and cholecystitis -- CHAPTER 75: Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction -- CHAPTER 76: Primary sclerosing cholangitis -- CHAPTER 77: Cholangiocarcinoma -- Malformations -- CHAPTER 78: Congenital abnormalities of the biliary tract -- Section 4: Liver Disease -- Infections -- CHAPTER 79: Acute viral hepatitis -- CHAPTER 80: Chronic hepatitis B -- CHAPTER 81: Chronic viral hepatitis C -- CHAPTER 82: Chronic viral hepatitis D -- CHAPTER 83: Liver worms -- CHAPTER 84: Liver protozoa -- CHAPTER 85: Bacterial and fungal infections of the liver -- CHAPTER 86: Primary biliary cirrhosis -- Autoimmune and related disorders -- CHAPTER 87: Autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndromes -- Genetic, metabolic and iatrogenic liver diseases -- CHAPTER 88: Alcoholic liver diseases -- CHAPTER 89: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease -- CHAPTER 90: Hemochromatosis -- CHAPTER 91: Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency -- CHAPTER 92: Wilson disease -- CHAPTER 93: Drug prescription in liver disease -- CHAPTER 94: Genetic and metabolic liver diseases in childhood -- CHAPTER 95: Disturbances of bilirubin metabolism -- Cirrhosis of the liver and its complications -- CHAPTER 96: Polycystic liver diseases -- CHAPTER 97: Cirrhosis of the liver -- CHAPTER 98: Portal hypertension.

CHAPTER 99: Ascites and hepatorenal syndrome -- CHAPTER 100: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis -- CHAPTER 101: Hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension -- CHAPTER 102: Hepatic encephalopathy -- CHAPTER 103: Acute liver failure -- Other liver diseases -- CHAPTER 104: Tumors of the liver -- CHAPTER 105: Vascular disorders of the liver -- CHAPTER 106: Granulomas of the liver -- CHAPTER 107: Liver diseases and pregnancy -- Liver transplantation -- CHAPTER 108: Liver transplantation: indications and selection of candidates and immediate complications -- CHAPTER 109: Long-term management of recurrent primary liver disease -- Section 5: Diseases of Multiple Organ Systems -- CHAPTER 110: Collagen vascular and vasculitic disorders -- CHAPTER 111: Systemic disease and the gastrointestinal tract -- CHAPTER 112: Pancreatic endocrine tumors -- CHAPTER 113: The carcinoid syndrome -- CHAPTER 114: AIDS and the gut -- CHAPTER 115: Graft-versus-host disease -- CHAPTER 116: Radiation and other physicochemical injury -- CHAPTER 117: Systemic amyloidosis -- CHAPTER 118: Foreign bodies -- CHAPTER 119: Porphyria -- CHAPTER 120: The hereditary recurrent fevers -- Section 6: Abdominal Wall and Cavity -- CHAPTER 121: Abscesses and other intra-abdominal diseases -- CHAPTER 122: Hernia -- PART 3: Primer of Diagnostic Methods -- Endoscopic imaging -- CHAPTER 123: Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and mucosal biopsy -- CHAPTER 124: Lower gastrointestinal endoscopy and biopsy -- CHAPTER 125: Endoscopic ultrasonography -- CHAPTER 126: Diagnostic and interventional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography -- CHAPTER 127: Enteroscopy (double-balloon) -- CHAPTER 128: Capsule endoscopy -- CHAPTER 129: Confocal endomicroscopy -- CHAPTER 130: Self-propelled colonoscopy -- Percutaneous imaging -- CHAPTER 131: Percutaneous ultrasound -- CHAPTER 132: Barium radiology.

CHAPTER 133: Computed tomography -- CHAPTER 134: Magnetic resonance imaging -- CHAPTER 135: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography -- CHAPTER 136: Virtual colonoscopy -- CHAPTER 137: Positron emission tomography -- CHAPTER 138: Non-invasive liver assessment -- Functional testing -- CHAPTER 139: Gastrointestinal motility testing -- CHAPTER 140: Measurement of portal pressure -- Tissue testing -- CHAPTER 141: Liver biopsy -- CHAPTER 142: Optimal tissue sampling: the pathologist's perspective -- PART 4: Primer of Treatments -- Medical treatments -- CHAPTER 143: Drug prescription in liver disease -- CHAPTER 144: Nutritional assessment and support -- Therapeutic endoscopy -- CHAPTER 145: Variceal ligation, sclerotherapy, and other hemostatic techniques for varices and other lesions -- CHAPTER 146: Non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding -- CHAPTER 147: Photodynamic therapy in the gastrointestinal tract -- CHAPTER 148: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and jejunostomy -- CHAPTER 149: Endoscopic techniques of removing early gastrointestinal neoplams -- CHAPTER 150: Dilation and stenting of the gastrointestinal tract -- CHAPTER 151: NOTES -- Percutaneous therapy -- CHAPTER 152: The transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) -- CHAPTER 153: Interventional radiology -- CHAPTER 154: Paracentesis -- A synopsis of surgical operations -- CHAPTER 155: Liver operations -- CHAPTER 156: Gastrointestinal operations -- CHAPTER 157: Minimally invasive surgery -- Index.