Top 100 Secrets

I. Esophagus

1. Swallowing Disorders and Dysphagia 7

Francis C. Okeke and John O. Clarke

2. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 14

Fehmi Ates and Michael Vaezi

3. Esophageal Causes of Chest Pain 21

Vito V. Cirigliano and Fouad J. Moawad

4. Achalasia 29

Joel E. Richter

5. Esophageal Cancer 36

Peter R. McNally, Nimish B. Vakil and John C. Deutsch

6. Esophageal Anomalies, Infections, and Nonacid Injuries 43

Mary A. Atia and Francisco C. Ramirez

7. Barrett's Esophagus 51

Nimish B. Vakil

8. Esophageal and Stomach Pathology 55

Shalini Tayal

II. Stomach

9. Gastritis, Peptic Ulcer Disease, NSAIDS, and Helicobacter pylori Infection 66

Elizabeth Coss and Byron Cryer

10. Gastric Cancer 74

John C. Deutsch

11. Thickened Gastric Folds 81

Ryan M. Kwok and Patrick E. Young

12. Gastroparesis 87

Richard W. McCallum and Joseph K. Sunny Jr.

III. Liver & Biliary Tract Disorders

13. Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Tests 95

Emily Carey and William D. Carey

14. General Concepts on Viral Hepatitis 101

Christina Hanson, Gail Pearson and Marcelo Kugelmas

15. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C 106

Jorge L. Herrera

16. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis B 115

Jorge L. Herrera

17. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Diagnosis 121

Albert J. Czaja

18. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Treatment 133

Albert J. Czaja

19. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis 146

John E. Eaton, Jayant A. Talwalkar and Nicholas F. LaRusso

20. Vaccinations and Immunoprophylaxis in Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders 155

Henry A. Horton, Hayoon Kim and Gil Y. Melmed

21. Pregnancy and Liver Disease 161

Devina Bhasin and Roshan Shrestha

22. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Hepatobiliary Diseases 169

Sterling G. West

23. Evaluation of Focal Liver Masses 175

Mark W. Russo and Roshan Shrestha

24. Drug-Induced Liver Disease 183

Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Cemal Yazici and Mark W. Russo

25. Alcoholic Liver Disease, Acoholism and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome 193

Clark Kulig

26. Vascular Liver Disease 202

Dawn M. Torres and Angelo H. Paredes

27. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis 210

Dawn M. Torres and Stephen A. Harrison

28. Liver Transplantation 216

Stevan A. Gonzalez and James F. Trotter

29. Ascites 225

Phillip S. Ge, Carlos Guarner and Bruce A. Runyon

30. Liver Abscess 237

Jorge L. Herrera and Christopher D. Knudsen

31. Inheritable Forms of Liver Disease 243

Bruce R. Bacon

32. Liver Histopathology 250

Kiyoko Oshima

33. Hepatobiliary Cystic Disease 260

Joshua Friedman and Marianne Augustine

34. Gallbladder Disease: Stones, Crystals and Sludge 266

Cynthia W. Ko and Sum P. Lee

35. ERCP Plus Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction 271

Raj J. Shah

IV. Pancreatic Disorders

36. Acute Pancreatitis 277

Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin

37. Chronic Pancreatitis 287

Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin

38. Pancreatic Cancer 296

Shajan Peter, Ji Young Bang and Shyam Varadarajulu

39. Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas 305

Brenda Hoffman and Jason R. Roberts

V. Small and Large Bowel Disorders

40. Celiac Disease 308

Daniel A. Leffler and Rohini R. Vanga

41. Crohn's Disease 313

Bret A. Lashner and Aaron Brzezinski

42. Ulcerative Colitis 321

Ramona O. Rajapakse and Burton I. Korelitz

43. Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis 328

Shahan Fernando and Glenn T. Furuta

44. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth 334

Catherine S. Manolakis, Travis J. Rutland and Jack A. Di Palma

VI. Colon Disorders

45. Colon Disorders and Colon Cancer 339

Carole Macaron and Carol Ann Burke

46. Constipation and Fecal Incontinence 349

Reena Chokshi and Suzanne Rose

47. Diverticulitis 358

Luca Stocchi

48. Diseases of the Appendix 365

Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen

49. Colitis: Pseudomembranous, Microscopic, and Radiation 369

Stephen M. Vindigni, Jill M. Watanabe, and Christina M. Surawicz

VII. General Symptoms and Conditions

50. Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage 377

Davinder Sandhu and Lisa Strate

51. Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding 384

Joseph G. Cheatham and John D. Horwhat

52. Occult and Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding 391

Mitchell S. Cappell

53. Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain 398

John S. Goff

54. Evaluation of Acute Infectious Diarrhea 405

Ramiro L. Gutierrez, Wesley R. Campbell, Scott E. Cunningham, Mark S. Riddle and Patrick E. Young

55. Chronic Diarrhea 414

Lawrence R. Schiller

56. AIDS and the Gastrointestinal Tract 427

C. Mel Wilcox and Klaus E. Mönkemüller

57. Ischemic Bowel Disease 435

Siobhan Proksell, Amar R. Deshpande, and Arvey I. Rogers

58. Nutrition, Malnutrition and Probiotics 443

Bonnie Jortberg and Peter R. McNally

59. Small Bowel and Colon Pathology 453

Shalini Tayal

60. Foreign Bodies and the Gastrointestinal Tract 469

George Triadafilopoulos

61. Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Irritable Bowel 472

Anthony Lembo and Vivian Cheng

62. Endoscopic Cancer Screening and Surveillance 481

David P. Jones

VIII. Multisystem Manifestations of GI Disease

63. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Diseases 490

Sterling G. West

64. Dermatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease 500

James E. Fitzpatrick and Lori D. Prok

65. Endocrine Aspects of Gastrointestinal System 503

Geetha Gopalakrishnan and Harikrashna Bhatt

IX. Gastrointestinal Radiology

66. Plain Film, Barium and Virtual Radiography 513

Michael Reiter

67. Interventional Radiology I: Cross-Sectional Imaging Procedures 523

Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ

68. Interventional Radiology II: Fluoroscopic and Angiographic Procedures 533

Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ

69. Noninvasive GI Imaging: Ultrasound, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging 541

Michael G. Fox and Ryan Kaliney

70. Nuclear Imaging 560

Won S. Song

71. Endoscopic Ultrasound 569

Linda S. Lee

X. Surgery and the GI Tract

72. Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy 578

Daphne Antillon and Mainor Antillon

73. Esophageal Surgery 589

Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis

74. Surgery for Peptic Ulcer Disease 599

Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis

75. Surgical Approach to the Acute Abdomen 609

Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen

76. Colorectal Surgery: Polyposis Syndromes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease 614

Martin D. McCarter

77. Obesity and Surgical Weight Loss 621

Jonathan A. Schoen

78. Minimally Invasive Surgery 626

John J. Tiedeken and Anthony LaPorta

Clinical Vignettes (Online Only)

Peter R. McNally