Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver

SECTION 1 INVESTIGATIONS in GASTROENTEROLOGY and HEPATOLOGY: GENERAL TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS and QUALITY CONTROL: Radiological Investigations. Transaxial Imaging. Imaging and Other Investigations with Radionuclides. Endoscopy SECTION 2 UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: Common Oral Disease and Oral Manifestations of Systemic Disease. Integrative Neurohormonal Control of Gut Function. The Esophagus: Physiology, Motility and Other Disorders. Diseases of the Esophageal Mucosa. The Stomach and Duodenum: Gastritis, Duodenitis and Peptic Ulceration. Surgical Treatment of Peptic Ulcer and Its Complications. Carcinoma of the Stomach and Other Tumors. Miscellaneous Diseases of the Stomach and Duodenum SECTION 3 SMALL INTESTINE and ITS DISORDERS: Absorption and Its Disorders. Celiac Disease and Other Mucosal Disorders of the Small Intestine. Gastric and Intestinal Motility Disorders. Structural Disorders of the Small Intestine SECTION 4 GENERALIZED ALIMENTARY PROBLEMS: Gastrointestinal Bleeding. The Acute Abdomen. Intestinal Ischemia and Vasculitis. Tropical and Infective Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver. HIV, AIDS and the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver. Nutrition. Inflammatory Bowel Disease SECTION 5 LIVER STRUCTURE and FUNCTION: the Liver: Anatomy, Physiology, Liver Biopsy and Congenital Disorders. Clinical Chemistry of Liver Disease. Immunology and Infection in Liver Disease SECTION 6 HEPATIC INFECTIONS: Viral Hepatitis. Fulminant and Late-Onset Hepatic Failure. Nonviral Infections and Granulomatous Diseases of the Liver SECTION 7 TOXIC LIVER DISEASES: Drugs and Toxins. Alcohol and the Liver SECTION 8 CHRONIC LIVER DISEASES: Chronic Hepatitis. Cirrhosis. Jaundice and Cholestatis. Metabolic Diseases of the Liver SECTION 9 COMPLICATIONS of CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE: Portal Hypertension. Ascites. Hepatic Encephalopathy. Renal Dysfunction in Hepatobiliary Disease. Pulmonary Dysfunction in Liver Disease SECTION 10 MISCELLANEO US LIVER DISEASES: Vascular Disorders of the Liver. The Liver in Pregnancy. The Liver