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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. ... Read more

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The functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) can perplex doctors and patients alike. Understanding the Irritable Gut seeks to demystify these disorders. W. Grant Thompson, MD explains with ease and clarity the nature, prevalence, and putative causes of these disorders that affect up to two thirds of individuals worldwide. For the first time, the information developed and assembled by the Rome Foundation to identify, classify, and treat these disorders is presented in an easy-to-read, nontechnical format.Understanding the Irritable Gut? Focuses on the doctor/patient relationship? Helps patients understand and cope with their symptoms? Over the counter treatments ? what is proven to work and what is not? Introductory chapters providing The Patient?s Perspective by Nancy Norton, President of the International Foundation for Functional GI Disorders, and The Physician?s Perspective by Dr. Douglas Drossman? 17 chapters, over 270 pages, and 24 figures covering all aspects of functional GI disorders ... Read more

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This text provides a comprehensive nursing resource for nursing care of patients with GI disorders. Featuring full-colour illustrations and photography, "Gastrointestinal Disorders" incorporates the five-step nursing process as a framework for thorough, practical content. Features of the text include a complete chapter on patient teaching guides to be duplicated and distributed to patients and full-colour illustrations of the gastrointestinal system. ... Read more

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Gastrointestinal Disorders (Mosby's Clinical Nursing Series)
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Significant progress has been made in several areas of gastroenterology over the last two decades. The understanding of physiology of gastrointestinal tract covering motility, sensitivity, absorption, and molecular biology of gastrointestinal cancers, particularly colorectal cancer, has immensely improved. Recent years were dominated by increased public attention focused on functional bowel disorders. Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional bowel disorder characterized by abdominal pain and discomfort without clearly demonstrable organic cause leading to altered bowel habits. Since the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome is high, it represents a significant societal and economic burden. Better understanding of the function of the enteric nervous system supported by the evidence that pain and discomfort experienced by the patients is due to hypersensitivity of vagal and spinal sensory neurons allowed for selective targeting receptors expressed by the afferent neurons for therapeutic intervention. Emerging therapies for irritable bowel syndrome, such as tegaserod, alosetron and cilansetron, affect the serotonergic system.

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Functional gastrointestinal disorders comprise many unexplained afflictions for which no organic cause can be identified. These disturbances occur worldwide and make up half the gastroenterology cases in the Western world. Diagnosis and management is complicated by the fact that no-one can decide whether the disorders have an emotional or a psychological basis. This book presents a single source of standardized definitions, diagnostic criteria and treatment recommendations for these common conditions. Physicians should no longer need to make a diagnosis of exclusion; this book should provide a consensus document of management and treatment. ... Read more

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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