Gastrointestinal Emergencies

Part 1 Oesophagus: foreign bodies of the upper gastrointestinal tract; caustic ingestions; oesophageal perforation; acute complications of oesophageal neoplasms; approach to the patient with acute dysphagia, odynophagia and non-cardiac chest pain. Part 2 Stomach and duodenum: complications of peptic ulcer disease - perforation and obstruction; approach to the patient with acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage; oesophagastric varices and congestive gastropathy; medical therapy of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage; angiographic intervention in upper gastrointestinal bleeding; therapeutic endoscopy for upper gastrointestinal bleeding; surgical therapy of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage; diaphragmatic hernias and gastric volvulus; acute emphysematous gastritis. Part 3 Pancreas: acute pancreatitis; complications of pancreatitis. Part 4 Gallbladder and biliary tree: acute cholecystitis; cholangitis; endoscopic and radiologic management of pancreatic-biliary emergencies. Part 5 Liver: fulminant hepatic failure; hepatic encephalopathy; hepatorenal syndrome; acute hyperammonemic syndromes; acetaminophen toxicity; drug-induced liver disease; liver transplantation; alcoholic hepatitis; space-occupying lesions of the liver; Budd-Chiari syndrome/veno-occlusive disease; ascites/acute hemoperitoneum; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Part 6 Large and small intestine: lower gastrointestinal bleeding; bowel obstruction; pseudo-obstruction syndrome; approach to the acute abdomen; acute mesenteric insufficiency; diverticulitis; acute appendicitis; typhlitis; inflammatory bowel disease; pseudomembranous colitis; other causes of colitis; infectious diarrhoea; tropical disease; foreign bodies of the lower GI tract; anorectal disease. Part 7 Peritoneal cavity: peritonitis; abscess/fistula. Part 8 Pregnancy: pregnancy and liver disease; the acute abdomen in pregnancy; radiation and pregnancy; GI drugs and pregnancy. Part 9 Paediatric emergencies: paediatric gastrointestinal and hepatic emergencies. Part 10 Immunocompromised host: infections of the oesophagus; AIDS and the GI tract; intestinal and liver complications of bone marrow transplantation. Part 11 Complications of procedures: complications of upper endoscopy and colonoscopy; complications of ERCP and its therapeutic applications; complications of balloon tamponade, sclerotherapy, variceal ligation and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS); complications of percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy; complications of liver biopsy; complications of laparoscopic surgery. Part 12 Trauma: trauma of the oesophagus, stomach and small intestine; trauma of the colon and rectum; duodenal and pancreatic trauma; hepatic trauma; splenic tauma.