Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disease

• Main Author: DeLegge, Mark H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nutrition.; Gastroenterology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Nutritional support of people with gastrointestinal impairment is critical to treatment and ultimately successful management. As such, gastroenterologists should be experts in nutrition and knowledgeable about the affects of nutrition on disease management. Nutritional and Gastrointestinal Disease f...

Table of Contents:

• Nutritional Assessment
• Malnutrition and Disease Outcomes
• Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Nutrition Aspects of Liver Failure
• Nutrition and Acute Pancreatitis
• Celiac Disease
• Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Cancer
• Management of the Short Bowel Syndrome
• Management of the Obese Patient
• Enteral Access and Enteral Nutrition
• Parenteral Nutrition
• Vascular Access for Parenteral Nutrition
• Nutrition-Based Home Care.