Difficult Decisions in Digestive Diseases

Part 1 OESOPHAGUS : Non-cardiac chest pain: Oesophagologist, Cardiologist or Psychiatrist?, Drs. Scott R Brazer and Jane E. Onken; Current therapeutic approaches to gastrooesophageal reflux disease: Does "Refractory oesophagitis exist?", Dennis L. Decktor and Malcolm Robinson; Dysphagia: Dysfunction, Sidney Cohen and Henry Parkman; Barrett's Oesophagus: A change for the worst?, Stuart J. Spechler; Oropharyngeal dysphagia: Are there practical means of solving? Treatment?, Galib Ali and Ian Cook; Hiatal hernia: When is it responsible for symptoms, R. Michael Rourk and Ravinder K. Mittal. Part 2 STOMACH AND DUODENUM : Gastroparesis: Commonly diagnosed but uncommonly responsible, Juan R. Malagelada; Gastritis: What to do with the pathologist's report?, Robert M. Genta; NSAID: Gastropathy: Too much or not enough ado? What to do, David A. Peura and Brad Kendall; Ulcer bleeding: Stemming the tide, Juergen H. Nord and Patrick G. Brady; Duodenal Ulcer: An infectious disease?, David Cave; Duodenal Ulcer: Management and maintenance, Michael B. Kimmey. Part 3 PANCREAS : Acute fulminant pancreatitis: What to do while wringing your hands, Massimo Raimondo and Eugene P. DiMagno; Pancreatic necrosis: Deliberation on debridement, Hans Beger, W. Uhl and M. Buchler; Chronic pancreatitis: Solving intractable pain and insufficiency, C.S. Pitchumoni and S. Murthy Badiga; Pancreas Divisum: Still divided about what to do?, Seth A. Cohen, Jerome H. Siegel. Part 4 LIVER AND BILIARY TRACT: Acute liver failure: Is anything really effective, short of transplantation?, William M. Lee; Chronic hepatitis: Stopping the train in its tracks, Dame Sheila Sherlock; Hepatitis immunization: Practical prophylaxis proposals, Richard S. Phillips and Rajender Reddy; Abnormal LFTs: A problem solver's delight, Emmet B. Keefe; Oesophageal varices: Early management is better, Norman Gitlin; Hepatorenal syndrome: Still around, better understood, better managed, Murray Epstein; Hemochromatosis: Ironing out a metallic malady, Anthony S. Tavill and Kris V. Kowdley; Gallstones: Symptomatic or silent?, Daniel B. Hurwich and Johnson L. Thistle; The sclerosing cholangitides: Taming a bad biliary tree, Marshall M. Kaplan; Ampullary pathology: Firming up a diagnosis, Rama P. Venu and Joseph E. Geenen; Hepatic encephalopathy: A confusing complication, Steven Schenker and Hector H. Trevino. Part 5 SMALL INTESTINE: Chronic diarrhoea: Cost effective problem-solving, Norton Greenberger; Enteroscopy: Is a look worth a thousand other tests?, Jerome D. Waye; Short bowel: Challenging constraints, Rosemary L. Fisher; Intractable celiac sprue: Management, maintenance and maladies, Wilfred M. Weinstein. Part 6 LARGE INTESTINE: Incontinence: An issue of cost and containment, Lee Smith; Constipation: Moving things along at low cost, Arnold Wald; Pseudo-obstruction: How to diagnose confidently, Robert C. McIntyre, Gregory V. Stiegmann; Anorectal: Sort-out anal complaints, Steven D. Wexner and Sander