Section I. General concerns -- Section II. Esophageal diseases -- Section III. Diseases of the stomach -- Section IV. Small bowel diseases -- Section V. Colorectal diseases -- Section VI. Pancreatic diseases -- Section VII. Therpeutic endoscopy & diagnostic techniques -- Section VIII. Liver diseases -- Section IX. Biliary tract diseases.

Acute abdominal pain: basic principles & current challenges / Frederick L. Makrauer -- Inflammatory bowel disease: immunologic considerations & therapeutic implications / Richard S. Blumberg -- Inflammatory bowel disease: medical considerations / Jonathan S. Levine -- Inflammatory bowel disease: surgical considerations / Jennifer L. Irani -- Acute diarrheal disorders / Jerry S. Trier -- Mesenteric vascular disease / Elena M. Stoffel -- Gastrointestinal & biliary complications of pregnancy / Sonia Friedman -- Hepatic complications of pregnancy / Chinweike Ukomadu -- State-of-the-art imaging of the gastrointestinal system / Koenraad J. Mortele -- Gastrointestinal manifestations of immunodeficiency / Zhenglun Zhu -- Gastroesophageal reflux disease / John R. Saltzman -- Barrett esophagus / Kunal Jajoo -- Oropharyngeal & esophageal motility disorders / Arun Chaudhury --

Eosinophilic esophagitis / Norton J. Greenberger -- Peptic ulcer disease / Edward Lew -- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma) / Edward Lew -- Functional (nonulcer) dyspepsia / Walter W. Chan -- Disorders of gastric & small bowel motility / Walter W. Chan -- Treatment of obesity: the impact of bariatric surgery / Malcolm K. Robinson -- Intestinal malabsorption / Jerry S. Trier -- Diverticular disease of the colon / Anne C. Travis -- Colorectal cancer screening / Sapna Syngal -- Hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes / Elena M. Stoffel -- Irritable bowel syndrome / Sonia Friedman -- Acute pancreatitis / Bechien U Wu -- Chronic pancreatitis / Darwin L. Conwell -- Autoimmune pancreatitis / Norton J. Greenberger -- Tumors of the pancreas / Ashish Sharma -- Polypectomy / Kunal Jajoo -- Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding / John R. Saltzman --

Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding / Linda S. Lee -- Endoscopic management of acute biliary & pancreatic conditions / Christopher C. Thompson -- Wireless capsule endoscopy & deep small bowel enteroscopy / Anne C. Travis -- Gastrointestinal foreign bodies / Christopher C. Thompson -- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) / Linda S. Lee -- Endoscopic ultrasound / Linda S. Lee -- Approach to the patient with jaundice & abnormal liver tests / Norton J. Greenberger -- Acute liver failure / Sonal Kumar -- Viral hepatitis / Anna Rutherford --

Chronic nonviral hepatitis / Chinweike Ukomadu -- Hereditary hemochromatosis / Benjamin Smith -- Alcoholic liver disease / Timothy T. Kuo -- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease / David E. Cohen -- Portal systemic encephalopathy & hepatic encephalopathy / Norton J. Greenberger -- Ascites & spontaneous bacterial peritonitis / Norton J. Greenberger -- Hepatorenal syndrome / Norton J. Greenberger -- Portal hypertension & esophageal variceal hemorrhage / Norman D. Grace -- Drug-induced liver disease / Willis C. Maddrey -- Liver neoplasms / Amir A. Qamar -- Liver transplantation / Amir A. Qamar -- Primary biliary cirrhosis / Daniel S. Pratt -- Primary sclerosing cholangitis / Norton J. Greenberger -- Gallstone disease / Gustav Paumgartner.

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Print version c2012.

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