Bøger af Stefano Guandalini

Completely updated and revised! A comprehensive yet concise resource for diagnosing and treating the most common gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition issues.Focusing on disorders that you are the most likely to encounter, Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition enables you to assess and interpret presenting signs and symptoms and formulate an effective plan for management. Providing an effective combination of concise text and useful summary features, chapter content is clearly organized into four easily digestible sections: . Approach to Main Symptoms includes algorithms providing diagnostic and/or therapeutic approach to commonly encountered signs and symptoms . Main GI Diseases offers series of disorders individually described, including definition, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis, and treatment . Less Frequently Encountered GI Diseases describes rare disorders pediatric residents may encounter during their rotation . Commonly Used Drugs, Tests, and Techniques familiarizes you with frequently used drugs, imaging, and invasive diagnostic techniques, tests, and how they apply to GI disorders From GI problems in the newborn, infectious diarrhea, and constipation to gastro-esophageal reflux, cystic fibrosis, and celiac disease, Essential Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Second Edition provides everything you need to master all facets of this important subject.

This fully updated second edition demonstrates the major impact that the gut microbiota has on human gastrointestinal health, with a special focus on children. The book also explores the potential use of probiotic microorganisms to protect or improve gastrointestinal health in children.Humans are not a single organism: We are a multi-organic structure composed of ourselves and our microbiota, living in close symbiosis since birth and even before. The enormous impact that the billions of microscopic cells in our gut have on our gastrointestinal and systemic health cannot be overstated. The tremendous progress that has been made in the last decade in our still very incomplete understanding of the gut microbiota opens the door to potential applications in human health that were simply unthinkable before.One of the most interesting aspects of this new scientific horizon is the fact that we can identify (or even create in the lab) many of these "friendly bacteria" and use themto protect or improve our health. Thus, strains of probiotic microorganisms are being identified and studied in a variety of clinical scenarios. One of the most studied areas for probiotics is pediatric gastrointestinal health.Topics covered in this book range from the development of the intestinal microbiota in the fetus and neonate to current and potential applications in various conditions such as necrotizing enterocolitis or infectious or inflammatory diseases of the child.Written by an international group of preeminent experts in these fields in a rigorous, evidence-based manner, the book is intended for pediatric gastroenterologists, pediatricians, and medical scientists alike.

Provides a concise guide to gastrointestinal, hepatic, and nutrition disorders in the pediatric patient. Featuring several tables, lists, and other summary features, this book also includes a drug formulary for common prescriptions.

A comprehensive textbook of the management of the clinical problems arising in paediatric gastroenterology.