Book description
A Concise, Symptom-Based Textbook for Diagnosis and Decision Making
in Clinical Practice
Over the past twenty years, thousands of physicians have come to
depend on Yamada's Textbook of Gastroenterology. Its
encyclopaedic discussion of the basic science underlying
gastrointestinal and liver diseases as well as the many diagnostic and
therapeutic modalities available to the patients who suffer from them
was-and still is-beyond compare. This new textbook, Principles of
Clinical Gastroenterology, is designed to inform practitioners
on the features of the major clinical disorders in gastroenterology
and hepatology from the point of view of the clinician observing signs
and symptoms of a patient under care and management.
It is a practical guide to diagnosis and decision making in clinical
practice and provides a rich source of information on diseases of the
gastrointestinal tract and liver. Covering the full range of
examinations in gastroenterology and hepatology, with extremely timely
chapters on patients with dyspepsia, eating disorders, jaundice,
hepatitis, cirrhosis, and on screening, Principles of Clinical
Gastroenterology gives you easy access to approaches that a
clinician might take to common symptoms and signs presented by
patients with such disorders. The chapters include the epidemiology,
history, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of
the most commonly encountered disorders in gastroenterology and hepatology.
This textbook will be an invaluable resource whether you are a
gastroenterologist, internist, surgeon, or other clinician who sees
patients with gastrointestinal and liver disorders. It should be kept
close at hand for frequent consultation.
Tadataka Yamada, MD is President of the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program, where he leads the
foundation's efforts to apply technological solutions to the
healthcare problems of the developing world. Dr. Yamada was chairman
of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline from 2001-2006, and joined the company's
Board in 2004. Previously, he was Chairman of the Department of
Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and
Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Medical Center. He is
past President of the Association of American Physicians, past
President of the American Gastroenterological Association, Master of
the American College of Physicians and a member of the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
David H. Alpers, MD, William B. Kountz Professor of Medicine,
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Anthony N. Kalloo, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine; Director, Division of Gastroenterology
and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Neil Kaplowitz, MD, Thomas H. Brem Chair, Professor of Medicine,
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases; Director,
University of Southern California Liver Disease Research Center, Los
Angeles, California, USA
Chung Owyang, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, H. Marvin Pollard
Collegiate Professor and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology,
University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Don W. Powell, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine, Professor,
Neuroscience and Cell Biology; Director, Division of Gastroenterology
and Hepatology Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, The
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
