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Title

Intestinal failure : diagnosis, management and transplantation / edited by Alan N. Langnas [and others].

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., [2008], ©2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

Langnas, Alan N.

Description

xxi, 390 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subject

• Intestines > Diseases
• Intestines > physiopathology
• Intestinal Diseases > drug therapy
• Intestinal Diseases > surgery
• Intestines > transplantation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. The History of Intestinal Failure and Transplantation / Alan N. Langnas -- Pt. 2. Intestinal Physiology and Immunology -- 2. Intestinal Morphology, Intestinal Regeneration and the Promise of Tissue Engineering / David A. J. Lloyd and Simon M. Gabe -- 3. Basic Physiology of Motility, Absorption and Secretion / Greger Lindberg -- 4. Immunology of the Small Intestine / Liam O'Mahony -- 5. Intestinal Adaptation: The Biology of the Intestinal Response to Resection and Disease / Marc S. Levin and Deborah C. Rubin -- Pt. 3. Intestinal Failure: Definition and Pathophysiology -- 6. Intestinal Failure: Definitions and Classifications / Dominique M. Jan -- 7. Causes of Intestinal Failure in the Newborn / Yigael Finkel -- 8. Congenital Enteropathies Causing Permanent Intestinal Failure / Olivier Goulet -- 9. Causes of Intestinal Failure in the Adult / Harry C. Sax -- 10. Intestinal Failure Related to Bariatric Surgery / Jon S. Thompson -- 11. Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Short Bowel Syndrome / Ramsey K. Umar and Alan L. Buchman -- 12. Motility Disorders / Hayat Mousa and Carlo Di Lorenzo -- Pt. 4. Assessment and General Management of Intestinal Failure -- 13. Assessment of Intestinal Failure Patients / Clarivet Torres -- 14. Guidelines for Home Parenteral Nutrition Support in Chronic Intestinal Failure Patients / Bernard Messing, Francisca Joly and Virginie Colomb -- 15. Home Parenteral Nutrition: Complications, Survival, Costs and Quality of Life / John K. DiBaise -- 16. Vascular Access, Including Complications / Sanja Kolacek and Julije Mestrovic -- 17. Enteral Support for Children with Intestinal Failure / Daniel S. Kamin and Christopher Duggan -- 18. The Use of Enteral Nutrition in the Adult with Intestinal Failure / Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy -- 19. The Enteric Flora in Intestinal Failure: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth and Gut-Derived Sepsis / Eamonn M. M. Quigley, Rodrigo Quera and Ahmed Abu-Shanab -- 20. Management of Complex Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances / Stuart S. Kaufman and Erin M. Fennelly -- 21. Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease / Sue V. Beath and Jeremy M. Woodward -- 22. Psychiatric Issues in the Assessment of the Patient with Intestinal Failure / James H. Sorrell -- 23. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy / Paul E. Hyman and Brenda Bursch -- Pt. 5. Pharmacological Approaches to Intestinal Failure -- 24. Luminal Nutrient Factors in Intestinal Adaptation and Their Use in Therapy / Jon A. Vanderhoof and Rosemary J. Young -- 25. The Role of Humoral Factors in Intestinal Adaptation / Jennifer N. Woodard and Kelly A. Tappenden -- Pt. 6. Autologous Reconstruction of the GI Tract -- 26. Autologous Reconstruction of the GI Tract / Debra Sudan -- Pt. 7. Organ Replacement Therapy for Intestinal Failure -- 27. Intestinal Transplantation: Indications and Patient Selection / Kareem M. Abu-Elmagd -- 28. Isolated Small Bowel Transplantation and Combined Liver-Small Bowel Transplantation / Douglas G. Farmer -- 29. Living Donor Intestinal Transplantation / Enrico Benedetti, Fabrizio Panaro and Giuliano Testa -- 30. Isolated Liver Transplantation for Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease / Jean F. Botha and Alan N. Langnas -- 31. Preservation of the Intestine / Vincent B. Nieuwenhuijs, Mihai Oltean, Henri G. Leuvenink and Rutger J. Ploeg -- 32. Immediate Postoperative Care of the Intestinal Transplant Recipient / Gabriel J. Hauser, Jeffrey S. Plotkin and Thomas Fishbein -- 33. Surgical Complications of Intestinal Transplantation / Wendy J. Grant -- 34. Infections in Small Bowel Transplant Recipients / Alison Freifeld and Andre Kalil -- 35. Immunosuppression after Intestinal Transplantation / Raquel Garcia-Roca and Rainer Gruessner -- 36. Immunology of Intestinal Allograft Rejection / Kenneth A. Newell and Jonathan P. Fryer -- 37. Histopathology of Intestinal Transplantation / Tong Wu and Anthony J. Demetris -- 38. Long-Term Management of Intestinal Transplant Recipients / Frances R. Malone and Simon P. Horslen -- 39. Management of Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease / Thomas G. Gross -- 40. Results of Intestinal Transplantation / David R. Grant and Shimul A. Shah -- 41. Psychosocial Assessment and Management of the Transplant Patient/Family in Intestinal Transplantation / Jodi Gentleman, Leonard W. Penkoski and James H. Sorrell -- 42. Financial, Economic and Insurance Issues Pertaining to Intestinal Transplantation: When Is Too Much Not Enough? / Roger W. Evans.

ISBN

• 9781405146371
• 1405146370

LCCN

2007015740

OCLC

• ocn123332110
• 123332110
• SCSB-5397514

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries