Gastrointestinal bleeding: a practical approach to diagnosis and management

The diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal bleeding is multidisciplinary by nature involving surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists. Due to various pathologies, it involves upper gut, lower gut and occult bleeding. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management coversall aspects of bleeding in a systemic approach organized by the site of bleeding. Elective and emergent bleeding is also covered. This volume provides a practical text for the practitioner in addressing patient issues in their practice, with a step-by-step approach through appropriate diagnosis and management strategies including surgical, endoscopic, medical and angiographic techniques, making this a truly multidisciplinary and disease based text. Specific sections in the book are crafted by experts in each topic. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management provides a ready referencethat will help physicians understand and work through diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas and will be of great value to full range of practitioners that manage patients with bleeding including surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists as well as residents and fellows in these subspecialties. Step-by-step approach through appropriate diagnosis and management Written by world renowned experts in gastrointestinal diseases Provides practical management of specific bleeding sources Multidisciplinary and disease based text Specific sectionscrafted by experts in each topic INDICE: Stabilization of the Patient at Presentation.- Urgent workup for upper gi bleeding.- Management of bleeding esophageal varices.- Management of Dieulafoy’s.- Management of bleeding peptic ulcer disease.- Management of unusual upper sources of bleeding GAVE, aortoduodenal fistula, av malformation. Hemorrhagic gastritis.- Management of Mallory Weiss tear.- Management of bleedingsmall bowel tumors.- Management of bleeding from the bile duct.- Management of bleeding from the pancreas.- Urgent work up of Lower GI bleeding.- Management of bleeding hemorrhoids.- Management of bleeding colitis.- Management of av malformation of the colon.- Management of bleeding colon tumors.- GI Bleeding from an Unknown Source.- GI team: Occult GI Bleeding: Evaluation of the Guaiacpositive patient.- GI team: Obscure GI Bleeding Capsule and Double Balloon Techniques.- Provocative Angiography.- The unstable patient with obscure GI bleeding. Surgical and non-Surgical Management.- Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-1692-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 290
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés