Table of Contents

THE CLINICAL APPROACH History Examination INVESTIGATIONS IN GASTROENTEROLOGY Standard investigations I Standard investigations II DYSPHAGIA The clinical approach Cancer of the oesphagus Barrett's oesophagus/Peptic stricture/Achlasia Neurological and infective causes of dysphagia GASTROINTESTINAL CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN The clinical approach Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease ABDOMINAL PAIN - CHRONIC The clinical approach Dyspepsia Peptic ulcer disease Gastric tumours Gallstones Irritable bowel syndrome Chronic pancreatitis ABDOMINAL PAIN - ACUTE The clinical approach Acute pancreatitis Acute appendicitis/Diverticular disease DIARROHEAL ILLNESSES The clinical approach Coeliac disease (Coeliac sprue) Ulcerative colitis I Ulcerative colitis II Ulcerative colitis III Crohn's disease I Crohn's disease II Infective diarrhoea Miscellaneous colitides and other causes of diarrhoea Endocrine, post-surgical and lifestyle causes of diarrhoea CONSTIPATION AND PERIANAL PAIN The clinical approach Related conditions UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL HAEMORRHAGE The clinical approach CHRONIC GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING Iron deficiency anaemia Lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding Colorectal cancer I Colorectal cancer II JAUNDICE AND LIVER DISEASES The clinical approach Bilirubin metabolism and liver function tests Alcoholic liver disease I Alcoholic liver disease II Disorders of iron and copper metabolism Inherited and infiltrative disorders Portal hypertension I Portal hypertension II Cholestatic liver diseases Obstructive jaundice Tumours and abscesses of the liver Acute hepatitis Drugs and the liver Chronic viral hepatitis Autoimmune hepatitis and liver transplantation Pregnancy and liver disease NUTRITION Normal nutrition Index

Reviews

"This is a very pleasant book to glance through when you need to recall some fundamental aspects of gastrointestinal disease and will be especially useful to junior hospital doctors, motivated specialist nurses...and general practitioners..." Editor in Chief, Digestive and Liver Disease, April 2004