Here's everything you need to treat the full range of pediatric GI and liver diseases...in a convenient, concise single source. Drs Wyllie and Hyams - along with more than 80 experts in the field - bring you a clinically focused reference featuring a uniform chapter organization and a wealth of illustrations and diagrams to make guidance easy to both find and apply.Offers a bonus web site featuring 500 case-study, self-assessment questions - with answers - along with color clinical images, to help you test your knowledge.Presents abundant explanatory diagrams which clarify complex concepts.Features a signs-oriented section, making diagnosis easier and guiding you to detailed disease-specific sections.Integrates pathophysiology, clinical evidence, and patient-oriented information throughout.Presents eight new chapters for expanded coverage on the pediatric liver.Offers a new appendix of pediatric drug dosages, to assist you in prescribing "off label."With over 80 additional contributing experts.
Author(s): Robert Wyllie, Jeffrey S. Hyams
Edition: 3
Publisher: Saunders
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 1292
Cover......Page 1
List of Contributors......Page 3
Preface......Page 8
1 Development of the gastrointestinal tract......Page 10
2 Basic aspects of digestion and absorption......Page 18
3 Bile acid physiology and alterations in the enterohepatic circulation......Page 31
4 Indigenous flora......Page 40
5 Gastrointestinal motility......Page 56
6 Gastrointestinal mucosal immunology and mechanisms of inflammation......Page 89
7 Chronic abdominal pain of childhood and adolescence......Page 112
8 Vomiting and nausea......Page 127
9 Diarrhea......Page 150
10 Colic and gastrointestinal gas......Page 168
11 Constipation and encopresis......Page 176
12 Failure to thrive......Page 191
13 Gastrointestinal hemorrhage......Page 201
14 Eating disorders and obesity......Page 214
15 Jaundice......Page 230
16 Ascites......Page 243
17 Caustic ingestion and foreign bodies: damage to the upper gastrointestinal tract......Page 257
18 Developmental anatomy and physiology of the esophagus......Page 272
19 Congenital malformations of the esophagus......Page 288
20 Gastroesophageal reflux......Page 300
21 Achalasia and other motor disorders......Page 323
22 Other diseases of the esophagus......Page 335
23 Developmental anatomy and physiology of the stomach......Page 343
24 Pyloric stenosis and congenital anomalies of the stomach and duodenum......Page 352
25 Gastritis, gastropathy and ulcer disease......Page 366
26 Helicobacter pylori in childhood......Page 402
27 Gastric motility disorders......Page 431
28 Bezoars......Page 443
29 Anatomy and physiology of the small and large intestine......Page 448
30 Maldigestion and malabsorption......Page 464
31 Protracted diarrhea......Page 480
32 Protein-losing enteropathy......Page 496
33 Celiac disease......Page 505
34 Short bowel syndrome......Page 517
35 Allergic bowel disease and eosinophilic gastroenteritis......Page 531
36 Infectious diarrhea......Page 545
37 Enteric parasites......Page 570
38 Gastrointestinal manifestations of primary immunodeficiency......Page 589
39 Gastrointestinal complications of secondary immunodeficiency syndromes......Page 605
40 Crohn’s disease......Page 623
41 Ulcerative colitis in children and adolescents......Page 650
42 Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction......Page 670
43 Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis......Page 680
44 Appendicitis......Page 691
45 Intussusception in infants and children......Page 699
46 Inguinal hernia and hydrocele......Page 712
47 Meckel’s diverticulum and otheromphalomesenteric duct remnants......Page 716
48 Hirschsprung’s disease......Page 724
49 Imperforate anus......Page 739
50 Abnormal rotation and fixation of the intestine......Page 746
51 Small and large bowel stenosis and atresias......Page 754
52 Newborn abdominal wall defects......Page 761
53 Stomas of the small and large intestine......Page 775
54 Disorders of the anorectum: fissures,fistulae, prolapse, hemorrhoids, tags......Page 788
55 Neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract and liver......Page 796
56 Other diseases of the small intestine and colon......Page 815
57 Developmental anatomy and physiology of the liver and bile ducts......Page 830
58 Neonatal hepatitis......Page 840
59 Biliary atresia and neonatal disorders of the bile ducts......Page 858
60 Fatty acid oxidation disorders......Page 872
61 Abnormalities of hepatic protein metabolism......Page 888
62 Abnormalities of carbohydrate metabolism and the liver......Page 901
63 Acute and chronic hepatitis......Page 913
64 Portal hypertension......Page 938
65 Liver failure and transplantation......Page 953
66 Diseases of the gallbladder......Page 975
67 Developmental anatomy and physiology of the pancreas......Page 988
68 Cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies of the exocrine pancreas......Page 1005
69 Pancreatitis......Page 1024
70 Secretory neoplasms of the pancreas......Page 1044
71 Infant and toddler nutrition......Page 1055
72 Nutritional assessment......Page 1073
73 Tubes for enteric access......Page 1090
74 Parenteral nutrition......Page 1098
75 Enteral nutrition......Page 1117
76 Management of diarrhea......Page 1141
77 Effects of digestive diseases on bone metabolism......Page 1153
78 Nutrition and feeding for children with developmental disabilities......Page 1168
79 Gastrointestinal pathology......Page 1183
80 Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography......Page 1213
81 Esophagogastroduodenoscopy,colonoscopy and related techniques......Page 1230
Index......Page 1271
