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Gastrointestinal diseases profoundly affect a person's well being. When the GI system fails, nutritional status suffers and the person is unable to support a healthy immune system, making him or her more vulnerable to illness and infection. This comprehensive guide takes an in depth look at the role the gastrointestinal tract plays in maintaining life and health. The author provides a helpful overview of how the GI tract works and the types of problems that can arise. She also explores the new research into the causes and treatment of the diseases, with special emphasis on nutrition regimens.

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Presenting an integrated, multidiciplinary approach to understanding functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, this unique reference provides a comprehensive survey of esophageal, gastric, and colonic diseases known to have a strong behavioral or psychosomatic component-detailing the latest technologies used to assess these disorders from both a gastroenterologic and a psychologic perspective.

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Acid/peptic disorders and motility disorders of the gastrointestinal tract are among the most common disorders affecting the general population. The Clinician’s Guide to Acid/Peptic and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract is a practical guide that offers access to the advances made in recent years in acute treatment and maintenance therapy.

Drs. Henry Parkman and Robert Fisher have compiled a unique reference for the management of patients with these gastrointestinal disorders. Comprehensive and user-friendly, the topics covered in the treatment of acid/peptic disorders and motility disorders range from daily medication and on-demand regimens to gastric electrical stimulators. The Clinician’s Guide to Acid/Peptic and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract will highlight clinical advances made in the care of patients, including a focus on symptoms, causes, evaluation, and treatment.

As part of The Clinician’s Guide to GI Series, this text serves as a concise reference that allows clinicians to quickly access and evaluate the necessary information for treating and managing patients with acid/peptic and motility disorders.

Topics Include:

• Discussions of management of common acid-related GI problems, such as heartburn from GERD and abdominal pain from ulcer disease.
• Management of and new treatments for patients with classic motility disorders, such as achalasia and gastroparesis.
• Insight into the management of patients with functional GI disorders, such as functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome.
• A focus on the new promotility compounds and agents to treat irritable bowel syndrome, whether it be associated with predominant diarrhea or predominant constipation.
• The relationship of the bacterial population of the gastrointestinal tract to acid/peptic and motility disorders.

Including images, tables, and algorithms, The Clinician’s Guide to Acid/Peptic and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract is the ideal reference for internists, gastroenterologists, surgeons, and oncologists looking to keep pace with the latest treatment options available today.


The Clinician’s Guide to GI Series
This exciting series of books is created specifically for those professionals who manage patients with gastrointestinal problems. Some additional topics include IBD, liver disease, and gastrointestinal oncology. Comprehensive, concise, and user-friendly, these books are written in a uniform format and include images, tables, and algorithms.



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Rome II presents the full reports from ten multinational working teams which not only detail the criteria for symptom based diagnosis of functional gastrointestinal disorders but also present the latest information on the pathophysiology, diagnostic approach and treatment of 24 functional GI disorders plus an additional new chapter on pediatric disorders.

This book can be used as both a textbook and an up to date reference source for anyone interested in clinical care or a comprehensive review of the field. It is must reading for clinicians and researchers. In bringing this new medical knowledge from the multinational working teams to primary care physicians and gastroenterologists throughout the world, this book advances a symptom based classification system developed as a new paradigm for the diagnosis and treatment of functional GI disorders so that patients suffering from these conditions may find the promise of relief contained in Rome II.

Rome II addresses some of the most puzzling and prevalent of chronic disorders. Functional gastrointestinal disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia and chronic functional abdominal pain, are very commonly seen in specialty and general medical practices. Until recently, there have been no scientifically and psychologically based standards for approaching these patients. Nor have researchers found common frameworks within which to study the causes and treatments of functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Functional GI disorders historically have been considered second class. Clinicians and scientists paid little attention to these disorders, leaving patients dissatisfied with their care, and causing unnecessary diagnostic procedures. Funding agencies gave little attention to the investigation of these disorders. In the late 1980s, the multinational collaboration and publication of the work of the Rome Working Teams dramatically changed this field of medicine by legitimization of these disorders, resulting in an increase in research grants, pharmaceutical studies and publications.

Refining, expanding and updating that landmark work, the authors of Rome II report on validation studies of its original Diagnostic Criteria, new findings in basic and clinical research, the new classification these disorders in children, and promising new treatments on the horizon. ... Read more

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A child presents with weight loss, fatigue, and stomach pain. Is the diagnosis psychological, as in an eating disorder? Might it be medical, as in a GI disorder? Could it be both?

Customer Reviews (3)

An Excellent Reference Book
Many of us in pediatric psychology working with patients with GI disorders did not aquire our knowledge of GI disorders while in graduate school.Instead, we sought out and amassed any literature on the topic we could find, learned from our GI colleagues, and perhaps most importantly, learned from clinical experience.This book is perhaps the first to condense all of that literature into one useful resource and make it applicable to the practitioner.The book provides a well-written explanation of the biopsychosocial approach to treatment, and case examples that bring research findings to life.

I sure wish I had this text when I was starting my work in GI/pediatric psychology!

Excellent resource
This book is an excellent resource for both professionals (e.g., physicians, behavioral/mental health care providers) and parents.Well-written, thorough, and easy to understand, Cunningham and Banez's text covers topics ranging in content from IBD/IBS and pediatric toileting difficulties to esophageal disorders, and all discussion is couched within an informative biopsychosocial approach.I would highly recommend this text to anyone working with, or living with, a child or adolescent struggling with GI difficulties.

Peds GI Better Understood
This book is a great resource for a wide variety of pediatric healthcare providers. It provides an in depth understanding of a broad spectrum of factors affecting pediatric gastrointestinal complaints and related problems. This book can better enable primary care providers to deal with many of these issues. In some cases the kids may even be able to avoid visits to specialists. In other cases, the primary care providers will be better able to understand, support and complement the care their patients are receiving from specialists.
Pediatric specialists-such as psychologists and those in the field of gastroenterology- can also benefit from this reference. It provides a very thorough look at GI complaints from a biopsychosocial perspective, allowing for a more holistic approach to treating patients.
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Significant progress has been made in several areas ofgastroenterology over the last two decades. The understanding of physiologyof gastrointestinal tract covering motility, sensitivity, absorption, andmolecular biology of gastrointestinal cancers, particularly colorectalcancer, has immensely improved. Recent years were dominated by increasedpublic attention focused on functional bowel disorders. Irritable bowelsyndrome is a functional bowel disorder characterized by abdominal pain anddiscomfort without clearly demonstrable organic cause leading to alteredbowel habits. Since the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome is high, itrepresents a significant societal and economic burden. Better understandingof the function of the enteric nervous system supported by the evidencethat pain and discomfort experienced by the patients is due tohypersensitivity of vagal and spinal sensory neurons allowed for selectivetargeting receptors expressed by the afferent neurons for therapeuticintervention. Emerging therapies for irritable bowel syndrome, such astegaserod, alosetron and cilansetron, affect the serotonergic system.

This publication is of interest to experts from a variety of disciplinesincluding medicine, physiology and pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry,pharmacology, and molecular genetics as well as to the general public. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on August 15, 2007. The length of the article is 654 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: New advances extend survival in GIST patients.(Digestive Disorders)(gastrointestinal stromal tumors)
Author: Betsy Bates
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 15, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 16Page: 35(1)

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Organized by disease state rather than drug name or classification &includes information on approved drugs for non-approved indications. ... Read more