GI/Liver Secrets Plus

Top 100 Secrets

I. Esophagus

1. Swallowing Disorders and Dysphagia 7
Francis C. Okeke and John O. Clarke

2. Gastroesophageal Reflux Dısease 14
Fehmi Ates and Michael Vaezi

3. Esophageal Causes of Chest Pain 21
Vito V. Cirigliano and Fouad J. Moawad

4. Achalasia 29
Joel E. Richter

5. Esophageal Cancer 36
Peter R. McNally, Nimish B. Vakil and John C. Deutsch

6. Esophageal Anomalies, Infections, and Nonacid Injuries 43
Mary A. Atia and Francisco C. Ramirez

7. Barrett’s Esophagus 51
Nimish B. Vakil

8. Esophageal and Stomach Pathology 55
Shalini Tayal

II. Stomach

9. Gastritis, Peptic Ulcer Disease, NSAIDS, and Helicobacter pylori Infection 66
Elizabeth Coss and Byron Cryer

10. Gastric Cancer 74
John C. Deutsch

11. Thickened Gastric Folds 81
Ryan M. Kwok and Patrick E. Young

12. Gastroparesis 87
Richard W. McCallum and Joseph K. Sunny Jr.

III. Liver & Biliary Tract Disorders

13. Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Tests 95
Emily Carey and William D. Carey

14. General Concepts on Viral Hepatitis 101
Christina Hanson, Gail Pearson and Marcelo Kugelmas

15. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C 106
Jorge L. Herrera

16. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis B 115
Jorge L. Herrera

17. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Diagnosis 121
Albert J. Czaja

18. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Treatment 133
Albert J. Czaja

19. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis 146
John E. Eaton, Jayant A. Talwalkar and Nicholas F. LaRusso

20. Vaccinations and Immunoprophylaxis in Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders 155
Henry A. Horton, Hayoon Kim and Gil Y. Melmed

21. Pregnancy and Liver Disease 161
Devina Bhasin and Roshan Shrestha

22. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Hepatobiliary Diseases 169
Sterling G. West

23. Evaluation of Focal Liver Masses 175
Mark W. Russo and Roshan Shrestha

24. Drug-Induced Liver Disease 183
Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Cemal Yazici and Mark W. Russo

25. Alcoholic Liver Disease, Acoholism and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome 193
Clark Kulig

26. Vascular Liver Disease 202
Dawn M. Torres and Angelo H. Paredes

27. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis 210
Dawn M. Torres and Stephen A. Harrison

28. Liver Transplantation 216
Stevan A. Gonzalez and James F. Trotter

29. Ascites 225
Phillip S. Ge, Carlos Guarner and Bruce A. Runyon

30. Liver Abscess 237
Jorge L. Herrera and Christopher D. Knudsen

31. Inheritable Forms of Liver Disease 243
Bruce R. Bacon

32. Liver Histopathology 250
Kiyoko Oshima

33. Hepatobiliary Cystic Disease 260
Joshua Friedman and Marianne Augustine

34. Gallbladder Disease: Stones, Crystals and Sludge 266
Cynthia W. Ko and Sum P. Lee

35. ERCP Plus Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction 271
Raj J. Shah

IV. Pancreatic Disorders

36. Acute Pancreatitis 277
Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin

37. Chronic Pancreatitis 287
Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin

38. Pancreatic Cancer 296
Shajan Peter, Ji Young Bang and Shyam Varadarajulu

39. Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas 305
Brenda Hoffman and Jason R. Roberts

V. Small and Large Bowel Disorders

40. Celiac Disease 308
Daniel A. Leffler and Rohini R. Vanga

41. Crohn’s Disease 313
Bret A. Lashner and Aaron Brzezinski

42. Ulcerative Colitis 321
Ramona O. Rajapakse and Burton I. Korelitz

43. Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis 328
Shahan Fernando and Glenn T. Furuta

44. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth 334
Catherine S. Manolakis, Travis J. Rutland and Jack A. Di Palma

VI. Colon Disorders

45. Colon Disorders and Colon Cancer 339
Carole Macaron and Carol Ann Burke

46. Constipation and Fecal Incontinence 349
Reena Chokshi and Suzanne Rose

47. Diverticulitis 358
Luca Stocchi

48. Diseases of the Appendix 365
Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen

49. Colitis: Pseudomembranous, Microscopic, and Radiation 369
Stephen M. Vindigni, Jill M. Watanabe, and Christina M. Surawicz

VII. General Symptoms and Conditions

50. Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage 377
Davinder Sandhu and Lisa Strate

51. Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding 38
Joseph G. Cheatham and John D. Horwhat

52. Occult and Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding 391
Mitchell S. Cappell

53. Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain 398
John S. Goff

54. Evaluation of Acute Infectious Diarrhea 405
Ramiro L. Gutierrez, Wesley R. Campbell, Scott E. Cunningham, Mark S. Riddle and Patrick E. Young

55. Chronic Diarrhea 414
Lawrence R. Schiller

56. AIDS and the Gastrointestinal Tract 427
C. Mel Wilcox and Klaus E. Mönkemüller

57. Ischemic Bowel Disease 435
Siobhan Proksell, Amar R. Deshpande, and Arvey I. Rogers

58. Nutrition, Malnutrition and Probiotics 443
Bonnie Jortberg and Peter R. McNally

59. Small Bowel and Colon Pathology 453
Shalini Tayal

60. Foreign Bodies and the Gastrointestinal Tract 469
George Triadafilopoulos

61. Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Irritable Bowel 472
Anthony Lembo and Vivian Cheng

62. Endoscopic Cancer Screening and Surveillance 481
David P. Jones

VIII. Multisystem Manifestations of GI Disease

63. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Diseases 490
Sterling G. West

64. Dermatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease 500
James E. Fitzpatrick and Lori D. Prok

65. Endocrine Aspects of Gastrointestinal System 503
Geetha Gopalakrishnan and Harikrashna Bhatt

IX. Gastrointestinal Radiology

66. Plain Film, Barium and Virtual Radiography 513
Michael Reiter

67. Interventional Radiology I: Cross-Sectional Imaging Procedures 523
Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ

68. Interventional Radiology II: Fluoroscopic and Angiographic Procedures 533
Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ

69. Noninvasive GI Imaging: Ultrasound, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging 541
Michael G. Fox and Ryan Kaliney

70. Nuclear Imaging 560
Won S. Song

71. Endoscopic Ultrasound 569
Linda S. Lee

X. Surgery and the GI Tract

72. Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy 578
Daphne Antillon and Mainor Antillon

73. Esophageal Surgery 589
Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis

4. Surgery for Peptic Ulcer Disease 599
Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis

75. Surgical Approach to the Acute Abdomen 609
Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen

76. Colorectal Surgery: Polyposis Syndromes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease 614
Martin D. McCarter

77. Obesity and Surgical Weight Loss 621
Jonathan A. Schoen

78. Minimally Invasive Surgery 626
John J. Tiedeken and Anthony LaPorta

Clinical Vignettes (Online Only)
Peter R. McNally