Clinical update on inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract

• Other Authors: Mayerle, Julia (Editor), Tilg, Herbert (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basel; New York Karger 2010
• Series: Frontiers of gastrointestinal research v. 26
• Subjects: Gastrointestinal Diseases; Inflammation
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Digestive-disease-associated mortality accounts for a major part of all deaths in Western societies and inflammatory diseases such as GI infections, viral hepatitis, GERD or cancers due to chronic inflammation have a tangible economic and social impact. What further aggravates the situation is the f...

Table of Contents:

• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease / Bugianesi, E.
• Fibrosis in the GI tract : pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment options / Pinzani, M.
• Chronic hepatitis B : pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment options / Wursthorn, K.; Mederacke, I.; Manns, M.P.
• Chronic hepatitis C : pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment options / Asselah, T. ... [et al.]
• Clinical update on inflammatory disorders of the GI tract : liver transplantation / de Rougemont, O.; Dutkowski, P.; Clavien, P.-A.
• Hepatocellular carcinoma / Peck-Radosavljevic, M.
• Coeliac disease / Schuppan, D.
• Anti-TNF therapy in inflammatory bowel diseases / Fiorino, G.; Danese, S.; Peyrin-Biroulet, L.
• Role of epithelial cells in inflammatory bowel disease / Kaser, A.
• GI immune response in functional GI disorders / Tack, J.; Kindt, S.
• Probiotics in GI diseases / Gionchetti, P. ... [et al.]
• Microscopic colitis / Pardi, D.S.; Miehlke, S.
• Inflammatory proteins as prognostic markers in acute pancreatitis / Frossard, J.L.; Bhatia, M.
• Antibiotics, probiotics, and enteral nutrition : means to prevent infected necrosis in AP / van Doesburg, I.A. ... [et al.] on behalf of the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group
• Immunotherapy of pancreatic carcinoma : recent advances / Märten, A.; Büchler, M.W.
• IKK/NF-B/Rel in acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer : torments of tantalus / Algül, H.; Schmid, R.M.
• Helicobacter pylori infection : to eradicate or not to eradicate / Schütte, K. ... [et al.]
• Clinical update on inflammatory disorder of the GI tract, carcinogenesis, and treatment of gastric cancer / Rad, R.; Ebert, M.