Handbook of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Geared to a wide readership of practicing clinicians and trainees in primary care medicine and gastroenterology, this handbook offers practical information on Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Coverage begins with the patient's first visit and proceeds through the diagnostic workup: endoscopy, radiologic testing, and instruments for rating and classifying inflammatory bowel disease. Discussions of therapy include conventional therapies, immunomodulators, biologic therapies, surgical approaches, and intestinal stomas. Chapters discuss extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease and the liver, infections, and pouchitis. Additional chapters focus on nursing considerations, nutrition, women's health issues, and inflammatory bowel disease and the workplace. Stephen J. Bickston MD, AGAF ; Richard S. Bloomfeld MD Table Of Contents Chapter 1: The First Visit Corey A. Siegel and Bruce E. Sands Chapter 2: Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Dahlia Awais and Peter Higgins Chapter 3: Radiologic Testing in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Drew Lambert Chapter 4: Accepted Instruments for Rating and Classifying Inflammatory Bowel Disease Bryan G. Sauers and Brian Behm Chapter 5: Conventional Therapies for Ulcerative Colitis Mark Flasar and Raymond Cross Chapter 6: Conventional Therapies for Crohn's Disease Robert S. Flynn and John F. Kuemmerle Chapter 7: Immunomodulators in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Rizwan Ahmed and Richard S. Bloomfeld Chapter 8: Biologic Therapies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Anis Ahmadi and John F. Valentine Chapter 9: Surgical Approaches to Ulcerative Colitis Brian R. Swenson and Charles M. Friel Chapter 10: Surgical Approaches to Crohn's Disease Sanda A. Tan and W. Robert Rout Chapter 11: Surgical Approaches to Perianal Disease Garth S. Herbert and Scott R. Steele Chapter 12: Intestinal Stomas David Mercer and Margaret M. Barclay Chapter 13: Extraintestinal Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nathan J. Shores and Richard S. Bloomfeld Chapter 14: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Liver Jason J. Lewis and Carl L. Berg Chapter 15: Infections in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Christian Stone Chapter 16: Pouchitis Kim L. Isaacs Chapter 17: Nursing Considerations for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Joe F. Surratt Chapter 18: Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Joe Krenitsky Chapter 19: Women's Health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nissrin M. Ezmerli and Aline Charabaty Chapter 20: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Workplace Elliott Andalman