Gastrointestinal Bleeding [electronic resource] : A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management /
Pryor, Aurora D.editor.
Pappas, Theodore N.editor.
Branch, Malcolm Stanley.editor.
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 covers all 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 reference that 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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Upper GI Bleeding -- Stabilization of Patients Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Urgent Workup for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Management of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding -- Management of Dieulafoy’s Lesions -- Management of Bleeding Peptic Ulcer Disease -- Management of Unusual Sources of Upper GI Bleeding -- Mallory–Weiss Syndrome -- Management of Bleeding Small Bowel Tumors -- Management of Bleeding from the Bile Duct -- Management of Bleeding from the Pancreas -- Lower GI Bleeding -- Urgent Workup of Lower GI Bleeding -- Bleeding Hemorrhoids -- Management of Bleeding Colitis and Colonic Diverticular Disease -- Colonic Arteriovenous Malformations -- Bleeding Colonic Tumors -- GI Bleeding from an Unknown Source -- Evaluation of the Guaiac Positive Patient -- Obscure GI Bleeding: Capsule and Double-Balloon Techniques -- Provocative Angiography -- The Unstable Patient with Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Surgical and Non-surgical 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 covers all 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 reference that 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.
Gastroenterology .
Minimally invasive surgery.
Surgery.
Interventional radiology .
Abdominal surgery.
Gastroenterology.
Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Surgery.
Interventional Radiology.
Abdominal Surgery.