A Concise, Symptom-Based Textbook for Diagnosis and DecisionMaking in Clinical Practice
Over the past twenty years, thousands of physicians have come todepend on Yamada's Textbook of Gastroenterology. Itsencyclopaedic discussion of the basic science underlyinggastrointestinal and liver diseases as well as the many diagnosticand therapeutic modalities available to the patients who sufferfrom them was--and still is--beyond compare. This newtextbook, Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology, isdesigned to inform practitioners on the features of the majorclinical disorders in gastroenterology and hepatology from thepoint of view of the clinician observing signs and symptoms of apatient under care and management.
It is a practical guide to diagnosis and decision making inclinical practice and provides a rich source of information ondiseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. Covering the fullrange of examinations in gastroenterology and hepatology, withextremely timely chapters on patients with dyspepsia, eatingdisorders, jaundice, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and on screening,Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology gives you easyaccess to approaches that a clinician might take to common symptomsand signs presented by patients with such disorders. The chaptersinclude the epidemiology, history, signs and symptoms, diagnosis,treatment, and prognosis of the most commonly encountered disordersin gastroenterology and hepatology.
This textbook will be an invaluable resource whether you are agastroenterologist, internist, surgeon, or other clinician who seespatients with gastrointestinal and liver disorders. It should bekept close at hand for frequent consultation.
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Tadataka Yamada, MD is President of the Bill & MelindaGates Foundation Global Health Program, where he leads thefoundation's efforts to apply technological solutions to thehealthcare problems of the developing world. Dr. Yamada waschairman of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline from 2001-2006, and joinedthe company's Board in 2004. Previously, he was Chairman ofthe Department of Internal Medicine at the University of MichiganMedical School and Physician-in-Chief of the University of MichiganMedical Center. He is past President of the Association of AmericanPhysicians, past President of the American GastroenterologicalAssociation, Master of the American College of Physicians and amember of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy ofSciences.
David H. Alpers, MD, William B. Kountz Professor ofMedicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division ofGastroenterology, 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 ofGastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,Maryland, USA
Neil Kaplowitz, MD, Thomas H. Brem Chair, Professor ofMedicine, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases;Director, University of Southern California Liver Disease ResearchCenter, Los Angeles, California, USA
Chung Owyang, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, H.Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professor and Chief, Division ofGastroenterology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor,Michigan, USA
Don W. Powell, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine,Professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology; Director, Division ofGastroenterology and Hepatology Program Director, General ClinicalResearch Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,Texas, USA
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University
Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
University of Southern California, CA
University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
