Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Professor Christopher Hawkey is Professor of Gastroenterology at Nottingham University and Co-director of Nottingham University's Institute of Clinical Research, and President Elect of the British Society of Gastroenterology 2009.

Professor Jaime Bosch is Professor of Medicine, and Senior Consultant Hepatologist and Chief at the Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic-Idibaps, University of Barcelona and Centro de Investigacion Biomedica de Enfermedades Hepaticas y Digestivas (Ciberehd), Barcelona, Spain.

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD is Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine.

Professor Francis Chan is Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and an honorary consultant physician at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH).

List of contributors, x

Preface, xxv

Part 1: Symptoms, Syndromes, and Scenarios Discomfort above the diaphragm

Section 2: Disorders of the Small and Large Bowel Food, nutrition and malabsorption

Section 3: Diseases of the Pancreas and Biliary Tract Pancreas

Section 4: Liver Disease

Section 5: Diseases of Multiple Organ Systems

Section 6: Abdominal Wall and Cavity

Part 3: Primer of Diagnostic Methods Endoscopic imaging

Part 4: Primer of Treatments

Index, 1191