Gastrointestinal Bleeding

by Pryor, Aurora D.; Pappas, Theodore N.; Branch, Malcolm Stanley

• ISBN13: 9781441916921
• ISBN10: 144191692X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Upper GI Bleeding
Stabilization of Patients Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding	p. 3
Urgent Workup for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding	p. 13
Management of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding	p. 23
Management of Dieulafoy's Lesions	p. 31
Management of Bleeding Peptic Ulcer Disease	p. 39
Management of Unusual Sources of Upper GI Bleeding	p. 65
Mallory-Weiss Syndrome	p. 79
Management of Bleeding Small Bowel Tumors	p. 85
Management of Bleeding from the Bile Duct	p. 103
Management of Bleeding from the Pancreas	p. 111
Lower GI Bleeding
Urgent Workup of Lower GI Bleeding	p. 121
Bleeding Hemorrhoids	p. 133
Management of Bleeding Colitis and Colonic Diverticular Disease	p. 145
Colonic Arteriovenous Malformations	p. 155
Bleeding Colonic Tumors	p. 163
GI Bleeding from an Unknown Source
Evaluation of the Guaiac Positive Patient	p. 175
Obscure GI Bleeding: Capsule and Double-Balloon Techniques	p. 183
Provocative Angiography	p. 195
The Unstable Patient with Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Surgical and Non-surgical Management	p. 203
Subject Index	p. 211
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