Practical Manual of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vela, Marcelo F.; Pandolfino, John E.; Richter, Joel E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Practical Manual of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Edited by Marcelo F. Vela, Director of GI Motility, Gastroenterology Section, Baylor College of Medicine & Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA Joel E. Richter, Hugh Culverhouse Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Director, Joy M. Culverhouse Center for Esophageal Diseases, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA John E. Pandolfino, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA Do you regularly manage patients with GERD? Need a practical tool to guide you through best patient care and management? Highly practical, expertly-written, and packed with useful text tools like case histories, pitfall boxes and management algorithms, this convenient and user-friendly manual provides you with complete clinical guidance to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), one of the most common conditions that gastroenterologists face every day. The book is divided into three parts: * An overview of GERD, including pathophysiology, diagnosis, general management strategies and side effects from medical and surgical GERD therapies * Management of specific clinical presentations such as Refractory GERD, Laryngopharyngeal Reflux, Noncardiac Chest Pain, and GERD-Related Dysphagia * Barrett's Esophagus and GERD, including diagnosis, surveillance and treatment options With a strong focus on the clinical management of GERD and with contributions from the world's leading authorities on the topic, Practical Manual of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease is the perfect tool for the modern day gastroenterologist - both at specialist level and in training - managing this extremely prevalent condition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118444801
• Artikelnr.: 37347270

Autorenporträt

Marcelo F. Vela, MD, MSCR, Associate Professor of Medicine, is the director of the gastrointestinal motility program at Baylor Clinic and the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA. Dr. Vela is a nationally recognized specialist in esophageal diseases, swallowing disorders, and gastrointestinal motility. Dr John E. Pandolfino is Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Dr Pandolfino has published extensively on gastrointestinal complications in surgery, pH monitoring of esophageal acid exposure, clinical use of esophageal manometry, and therapies and management of disorders of gastrointestinal motility. His research interests include esophageal physiology, gastroesophageal reflux disease, swallowing disorders, and esophageal diseases. Joel E Richter MD is Richard L Evans Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He specializes in the diagnosis and management of, and performs clinical research on, esophageal diseases including Barrett's oesophagus, GERD (including its extraesophageal presentation), achalasia and other motility disorders, non-cardiac chest pain, dysphagia and the effects that H. pylori has on the oesophagus. He has published more than 500 articles, chapters and books. He is the current co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology and past President of the American College of Gastroenterology and World Organization for Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus. Dr Richter has 338 articles on PubMed, and is editor of the following books: Ambulatory Esophageal Ph Monitoring: Practical Approach and Clinical Applications; Dysphagia: Diagnosis and Treatment; Gerd: Current Issues and Controversies; Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2nd edition (May 2012); The Esophagus, 5th edition (published March 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors, vii
Preface, ix
Part 1: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Overview, 1
1 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Pathophysiology, 3
Pim W. Weijenborg, Boudewijn F. Kessing, and André J.P.M. Smout
2 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Epidemiology, Impact on Quality of Life,
and Health Economic Implications, 26
Nimish Vakil
3 Overview of the Tools for the Diagnosis of Gastroesophageal Reflux
Disease, 39
Nicolas A. Villa and Marcelo F. Vela
4 Overview of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatments, 53
Sabine Roman and Peter J. Kahrilas
5 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatment: Side-Effects and Complications
of Acid Suppression, 69
David A. Johnson
6 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatment: Side-Effects and Complications
of Fundoplication, 83
Joel E. Richter
Part 2: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Management of Specific Clinical
Presentations, 97
7 Evaluation and Management of Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease,
99
John E. Pandolfino and Sabine Roman
8 Functional Heartburn, 115
Stanislas Bruley des Varannes, Frank Zerbib, and Jean-Paul Galmiche
9 The Role of Acid Reflux in Non-Cardiac Chest Pain, 132
Cristina Almansa and Sami R. Achem
10 Laryngopharyngeal Reflux, 154
Robert T. Kavitt and Michael F. Vaezi
11 Reflux-Related Cough, 179
Etsuro Yazaki, Ryuichi Shimono, and Daniel Sifrim
12 Relationship between Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Sleep, 195
Tiberiu Hershcovici and Ronnie Fass
13 Aerophagia and Belching, 221
Albert J. Bredenoord
14 Dysphagia and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 239
Donald O. Castell and Erick R. Singh
15 Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Interactions with Gastroesophageal Reflux
Disease, 253
Kumar Krishnan and Ikuo Hirano
16 Helicobacter pylori and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, 267
Maria Pina Dore and David Y. Graham
Part 3: Barrett ' s Esophagus, 287
17 Barrett ' s Esophagus: Diagnosis and Surveillance, 289
Gary W. Falk
18 Barrett ' s Esophagus: Treatment Options, 310
Jianmin Tian and Kenneth K. Wang
Index, 335
Color plate section can be found facing page 118