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:
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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,
provides everything you need to master all facets of this important subject.