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Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a common clinical problem that requires more than 300,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States. ... -
CLINICAL BACKGROUND A wide spectrum of pathophysiologic mechanisms may come into play when ileus or obstruction involve the small and larg... -
Constipation is a symptom rather than a disease and therefore represents a patient’s subjective interpretation of a real or imaginary somati...
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The ancient Greeks around 400 B.C. first recognized that ascites was associated with liver disease. Abdominal paracentesis is one of the old...
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RECOMMENDED READINGS Diarrheal diseases have quite different prevalences and outcomes in developed and developing countries (Fig. 5-1, Fig...
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Download More Internet Links American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). American Soc... -
The term acute abdomen describes a syndrome of sudden abdominal pain with accompanying symptoms and signs that focus attention on the abdomi...
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The evaluation of jaundice begins with a thorough review of the history of presentation, medication usage, medical history, physical examina...
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Since the advent of routine automated serum testing, a common problem in gastroenterology has been the determination of the cause, and thus ...
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Occult gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is by definition bleeding not apparent at inspection of the stools. As with overt GI bleeding, occult ...