Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

This fully revised and updated third edition of the Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology and Hepatology provides up-to-date, pragmatic advice on the management of common conditions and emergencies. An essential resource for all those involved in the care of patients with gastroenterological and hepatological disease, both for specialists and trainees in gastroenterology and hepatology, and also clinicians from other specialties.

The handbook includes a problems-based approach, a unique A to Z compendium of conditions, and sections on therapeutic drugs, and emergencies. Thoroughly revised and updated, it now includes such updates as new approaches for the management of eating disorders, and post-liver transplant patients, the latest advances in endoscopy, new therapies, refined advice on how to select between therapeutic options, as well as additional emergency topics on abdominal trauma, bowel obstructions, and major haemorrhage.

Table of Contents

1:Approaches to common clinical problems
2:Clinical practice and diagnostics
3:Endoscopy
4:An A to Z of gastroenterology and hepatology
5:Drugs used in gastroenterology and hepatology
6:Emergencies

Professor Stuart Bloom, Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, University College London Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, Dr George Webster, Consultant Gastroenterologist/ Hepatologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London, UK, and Dr Daniel Marks, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK