Using relatively limited text content and preferentially showing the physiological, clinical and therapeutic principles with illustrations and real case studies from Mayo Clinic, this book will be unique among text books dealing with gastrointestinal motility disorders which constitute 40% of the patients seen in clinical practice by gastroenterologists
Using relatively limited text content and preferentially showing the physiological, clinical and therapeutic principles with illustrations and real case studies from Mayo Clinic, this book will be unique among text books dealing with gastrointestinal motility disorders which constitute 40% of the patients seen in clinical practice by gastroenterologists
Michael Camilleri, MD Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
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* Chapter 1. Genetics and Molecular Aspects of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders * Chapter 2. Measurement of Gastrointestinal and Colonic Motility in Clinical Practice * Chapter 3. Gastrointestinal Motility: Control Mechanisms and Pathogenesis of Disordered Function * Chapter 4. Gastroparesis, Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction, and Functional Dyspepsia * Chapter 5. Case Discussions: Nausea and Vomiting * Chapter 6. Pathophysiologic Mechanisms of Appetite, Obesity, and Gut Hormones * Chapter 7. Neuromuscular Disorders Causing Gut Dysmotility * Chapter 8. Case Discussions: Neurological Disorders Presenting With Gastrointestinal Dysmotility * Chapter 9. Chronic Diarrhea * Chapter 10. Chronic Constipation * Chapter 11. Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Peripheral Mechanisms, Biomarkers, and Management * Chapter 12. Visceral Sensation * Chapter 13. Implications of Pharmacogenomics for Irritable Bowel Syndrome * Chapter 14. Gastrointestinal Physiologic and Motility Problems in Older Persons: Constipation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Diverticulosis
