Practical Guide to Gastrointestinal Function Testing

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Practical Guide to Gastrointestinal Function Testing
The testing of gastrointestinal (GÍ) function has changed enormously over recent decades. New techniques, such as pH monitoring, and manometry have become common methods for investigating GI diseases around the world.
The techniques are, however, only as good as the chnicians and chnical scientists that use them. This book is a practical guide that will enable any GI center to select the most appropriate tests for a suspected disorder, giving step-by-step descriptions of how to perform the procedure.
Four chapters adopt a problem-solving approach to disorders in each major region of the digestive system, and highlight the most appropriate diagnostic procedures. Each disease is described under the following consistently apphed headings, for ease of reference:
• etiology
• symptoms
• differential diagnosis
• diagnostic procedures.
Each procedure for testing GI function is described as follows:
• indications
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Fülszöveg

Practical Guide to Gastrointestinal Function Testing
The testing of gastrointestinal (GÍ) function has changed enormously over recent decades. New techniques, such as pH monitoring, and manometry have become common methods for investigating GI diseases around the world.
The techniques are, however, only as good as the chnicians and chnical scientists that use them. This book is a practical guide that will enable any GI center to select the most appropriate tests for a suspected disorder, giving step-by-step descriptions of how to perform the procedure.
Four chapters adopt a problem-solving approach to disorders in each major region of the digestive system, and highlight the most appropriate diagnostic procedures. Each disease is described under the following consistently apphed headings, for ease of reference:
• etiology
• symptoms
• differential diagnosis
• diagnostic procedures.
Each procedure for testing GI function is described as follows:
• indications
• contraindications
• equipment
• before the study
• during the study
• procedure
• after the study
• interpretation
• pitfalls.
There are chapter sections that refresh the basics of alimentary tract anatomy and physiology, and also a chapter that focuses on pediatric diseases.
This book will be an invaluable practical and learning resource for gastroenterolo-gists and clinical scientists who want to establish these techniques in their laboratory. Vissza