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Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Text for practitioners on drug rather than surgical treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. Foreword describes book as the first major text to deal with this topic. 55 contributors, 50 U.S. DNLM: Digestive System Diseases - drug therapy. ... Read more

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Each year, 60 to 70 million Americans are affected by gastrointestinal diseases.Ten million of those people are hospitalized because of their condition, and 191,000 die from digestive diseases annually. This Sourcebook describes the signs and symptoms of many digestive system problems, discusses ongoing research and treatment, provides statistical data, and recommends dietary and lifestyle changes. ... Read more

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This volume presents a systematic approach to the workup, diagnosis, and treatment of gastrointestinal motility disorders. The book describes the state-of-the-art techniques used to evaluate motility, identifies the diseases that cause abnormal motility, and thoroughly explains the relationship between these diseases and the syndromes encountered in practice.A particularly valuable feature of the book is a detailed classification of neuromuscular diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and their clinical manifestations. Special attention is given to diseases that have recently been recognized as causes of gastrointestinal dysmotility, such as childhood visceral myopathies, familial visceral myopathies and neuropathies, smooth muscle and enteric nerve dysfunction resulting from systemic diseases, and extrinsic nerve dysfunction. Other chapters cover disorders localized to the esophagus, stomach, colon, and biliary tract. ... Read more

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The Gastrointestinal Section of the International Union ofPharmacology (IUPHAR) was established in 1994 in Montreal, Canada. Theestablishmentof the GI Section recognizes the international progressof gastrointestinalpharmacology, including basic and human studies.The Gastrointestinal Section of IUPHAR organized the first symposium,Biochemical Pharmacology as an Approach to GastrointestinalDiseases:from Basic Science to Clinical Perspectives, on10--12 October,1995, in Pecs, Hungary. The main topics were: 1.Gastrointestinal secretoryand excretory fuctions2.Gastrointestinal motility3. Biochemical--pharmacological mechanisms in neural and hormonalactions involved in GI functions4.Main normal and pathologicalbiochemical mechanisms in GI functions5.GI mucosal injury andprotection6.Molecular mechanisms of premalignant and malignantdiseases in GI tract7.Use of isolated cells and cell cultures inbioochemical--pharmacological studies to approach GIdiseases. The presented papers are published in this book. ... Read more