Pathogenesis and Clinical Practice in Gastroenterology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ferkolj, I. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gangl, A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Galle, P. R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Vucelic, B. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: Falk Symposium ; 160
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

The translation of new molecular understanding of disease into clinical practice in gastroenterology is a special challenge. The Falk Symposium No. 160, entitled ‘Pathogenesis and Clinical Practice in Gastroenterology’, held 15-16 June 2007 in Portorož, Slovenia, provided a stimulating framework to...

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• Physiology of swallowing and antireflux mechanisms: anything new from a radiologist’s view?
• Oropharyngeal dysphagia, achalasia, and other oesophageal motility problems: clinical relevance and management
• Outcomes of different treatment opproaches for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
• Barrett’s oesophagus: screening, surveillance, treatment: are all questions answered?
• Helicobacter pylori, NSAID, gastric cancer
• Helicobacter pylori infection: diagnosis, treatment and risks of untreated infection
• Inflammatory bowel disease section
• Genetics, Immunology and biomarkers in clinical practice: do they assist in clinical management?
• Standard therapy for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease: the ECCO guidelines
• Biologics, novel therapeutic alternatives in inflammatory bowel disease
• Lower gastrointestinal tract (coeliac disease, infection and malignancy)
• Recent advances in coeliac disease
• Gastrointestinal manlfestations of AIDS
• Prevention and screening for colorectal cancer
• Lymphomas of the gastrointestinal tract
• Clinical challenges in liver diseases
• Do we still need liver biopsies?
• Inflammation and human cancer
• Viral hepatitis
• New insights in the immunology of viral hepatitis B and C
• New aspects of treatment of chronic hepatitis C
• Metabolic and autoimmune liver injury
• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: metabolic syndrome of the liver
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Immunology of primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Alcoholic hepatitis
• Complications of cirrhosis
• Hepatorenal syndrome in cirrhosis
• Variceal bleeding
• Surveillance and prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma
• Algorithms of diagnosis and options of hepatocellular carcinoma therapy
• Surgical therapy of liver cancer: resection and transplantation.