Clinical dilemmas in inflammatory bowel disease
By: edited by David Rampton, Peter Irving, Fergus Shanahan.
Contributors: Rampton, David.; Irving, Peter, 1970-; Shanahan, Fergus.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. Ltd
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781405133777
Subjects: Inflammatory bowel diseases; Inflammatory bowel diseases -- Decision making; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Description: Provides evidence-based guidance on topical clinical questions encountered by the medical team involved in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients to help with the daily challenges in IBD. It discusses special management problems, novel treatments and optimising current management.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Capsule endoscopy: do we need it? / Joel Mawdsley & Mark Appleyard; title: Pathology reports - pitfalls for the unwary / Wilfred Weinstein; title: Non-invasive diagnosis and assessment / A J Di Mambro, A Terlevich, & C Probert; title: What is the best way to image pelvic CD? / Vikram Sahni & Alison McLean; title: Surveillance colonoscopy in Ulcerative Colitis: alternatives and ways to improve outcome / Mark Lust & William Connell; title: Abnormal liver tests - what should we do? / A Suddle & Richard Marley; title: Is monitoring necessary? / Rakesh Shah & Alastair Forbes; title: Do they have a role in Crohn's disease? / Brian Feagan; title: Is the use of steroids for Crohn's disease obsolete? / David Rampton; title: Antibiotics: which, when and for how long? / A Kent & Jean-Frédéric Colombel; title: Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (map) in Chrohn's disease: player or spectator? / Geoff Smith & Fergus Shanahan; title: Tpmt testing: is it essential? / Azhar Ansari & Jeremy Sanderson; title: 6-mercaptopurine or azathioprine / Dermot McGovern & Simon Travis; title: Thiopurines: how long should we use them for / Alexandra Daley & Marc Lemann; title: Ciclosporin: balancing risk and benefit? / Helena Deeney & Barney Hawthorne; title: Contraindications - absolute or relative? / Rakesh Chaudhary & S Ghosh.; title: How can we prevent TB? / Sasha Beresford & David Rampton; title: Dealing with infusion reactions / Gert Van Assche & Paul Rutgeerts; title: Use in UC / Sreedhar Subramanian & Jon Rhodes; title: Infliximab and surgery - health or hazard? / David Rampton; title: Nutritional therapy for Chron's disease: is it for adults / Donald Duerksen & Charles Bernstein; title: Trials and tribulations - interpreting clinical trials in IBD / Elizabeth Carty & David Rampton; title: Genetics - clinical therapeutic applications / Mark Tremelling & Miles Parkes; title: Probiotics: separating science from snakeoil / John Keohane & Fergus Shanahan; title: Worms / David Grunkemeier & R. Balfour Sartor; title: Smoking and nicotine - poison for Crohn's, potion for colitis / Brian Bressler & A. Hilary Steinhart; title: Heparin / Ailsa Hart & Stuart Bloom; title: Leukocytapheresis / Peter Irving & David Rampton; title: Appendicectomy for Ulcerative Colitis / Richard Makins & Graham Radford-Smith; title: Biologic treatments in inflammatory bowel disease / Raymond D'Souza & James Lindsay; title: Stem cells for inflammatory bowel disease / Paul Fortun & Chris Hawkey; title: Complementary and alternative therapy - the way forward or a step back? / L Langmead & David Rampton; title: Functional problems in inflammatory bowel disease / Eamon Quigley; title: Psychological stress: something to worry about? / J Mawdsley & David Rampton; title: Drugs to avoid / Paul Collins & Jonathan Rhodes; title: Nsaids and cox-2 selective agents: cause or cure of pain in IBD? / David Scott & Ingvar Bjarnasson; title: Iron replacement - is it safe and effective? / Stefanie Kulnigg & Christoph Gasche; title: Hepatitis B and C viruses - how do they affect management of IBD? / Alick Nkhoma & Graham Foster; title: Pregnancy: what can we use? / Thea Thomas & Elspeth Alstead; title: How to prevent growth failure in children / Jutta Köglmeier & Nick Croft; title: Predicting outcomes in severe UC,; title: Simon travis.; title: Ulcerative Colitis: CMV co-infection - does it matter? / Daan Hommes; title: Treatment of oral Chrohn's disease / Carlo Nunes & Jeremy Sanderson; title: Pathophysiologic approach to tratment of diarrhoea in Chrohn's disease / Henry Binder; title: Short bowel / Jeremy Nightingale; title: Management of internal fistulae / David Rampton; title: What is indeterminate colitis? / Garret Cullen & Diarmuid O'Donoghue; title: Pouches for indeterminate colitis?,; title: Laura hancock & neil mortensen; title: Colitis-associated cancer: what's the risk to your patients?,; title: Jayne eaden; title: What to do with dysplasia, DALMs and adenomas / Matt Rutter; title: Pyoderma gangrenosum / Ana Paula Marinho Cunha & Fernando Veloso; title: Arthritides - helping the joints without harming the gut / Horace Williams & Tim Orchard; title: Sclerosing cholangitis - what to do? / SN Cullen & Roger Chapman; title: Thromboembolic disease: an under-recognised complication? / Peter Irving & Fergus Shanahan; title: Pulmonary manifestations: rare but real / Peter Irving; title: Intestinal infections: mimics and precipitants of relapse / Sunil Samuel & Y Mahida; title: Microscopic colitis / Debbie Nathan & Peter Gibson; title: Diverticular colitis / Linmarie Ludeman & Neil Shepherd; title: Out-patient services - do doctors still have a role? / Mark Kelly & Andrew Robinson; title: Shared care: tactical team selection / RC Rakshit & John Mayberry; title: Databases - are they worth the bother? / Stephen Grainger.