Clinical Dilemmas in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Peter Irving, MD, MRCP, David Rampton, Fergus Shanahan
John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - Medical - 264 pages
Evidence-based guidance to answer more than 60 controversial clinical questions on inflammatory bowel disease

Clinical Dilemmas in Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a practical handbook providing quick but detailed answers to the questions and challenges that you are faced with daily in the clinical setting.

Each short chapter addresses a different topic and provides evidence-based guidance on subjects ranging from optimising current management through to special management problems and novel treatments.

This book is suitable for all medical professionals involved in the care of patients with IBD: established and trainee gastroenterologists, colorectal surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, specialist nurses, pharmacists, dieticians and counsellors

 

Contents

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 1 Investigating IBD in the 21st Century
1
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 2 Medical Treatment Making the Most of What Weve Got 5ASA drugs
21
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 3 Medical Treatment Whats Round the Corner?
81
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 4 Common Clinical Challenges Beyond the Text Book
125
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 5 Managing IBD Outside the Gut
193
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 6 Are You Sure its IBD?
217
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Part 7 The IBD Service Time for a Rethink?
229
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Index
241
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Peter Irving, Centre for Gastroenterology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

David Rampton, Professor of Clinical Gastroenterology at the Centre for Gastroenterology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

Fergus Shanahan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, National University of Ireland Cork, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Eire.

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