Diarrhea Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances
This volume provides in a conveniently accessible package a comprehensive collection of accurate and timely information on the management of patients with diarrhea, both in pediatric age and in the adult. As medical knowledge has recently expanded in this area, this volume is full of new practical,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | Clinical Gastroenterology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Definition, Epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical classification and differential diagnosis
- Infectious diarrhea
- IBD
- Eosinophilic enteritis
- Microscopic colitis
- Food allergy including mile and soy protein allergy
- Protein losing enteropathy
- Chronic radiation enterocolitis
- Ingestion of nonabsorbable solutes, malabsorptive diseases
- Pancreatic exocrine insufficiencies
- Bacterial overgrowth
- Celiac disease
- Whipple disease
- Short bowel syndrome, other surgeries
- Endocrine tumor diarrhea
- Non endocrine malignant disease
- Toxins*
- Factitious Diarrhea
- Chronic idiopathic diarrhea and pseudopancreatic cholera syndrome
- IBS
- Toddler’s diarrhea*
- Non malignant endocrine diarrhea
- Alcoholic diarrhea*
- Diarrhea in hospitalized patients*
- Medications
- Runner’s diarrhea*
- Evaluation of patients with diarrhea and timing of referral
- Empiric treatment of acute and chronic diarrhea
- The role of probiotics in prevention and treatment of diarrhea