Rifat Latifi, M.D., Department of Surgery University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, St. Marys Hospital/Yale Affiliate, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.

• Foreword 1. Clinical Implications of Carbohydrate, Proteins, Lipids, Vitamins and Trace Elements in Nutrition Support 2. Current Nutrient Substrates 3. Biochemistry of Amino Acids: Clinical Implications 4. Acute Phase Proteins in Critically Ill Patients 5. Arginine Metabolism in Critical Care and Sepsis 6. Wound Healing and the Role of Nutrient Substrates 7. Protein Metabolism in Liver and Intestine During Sepsis: Mediators, Molecular Regulation, and Clinical Implications 8. Biochemical Assessment and Monitoring of Nutritional Status 9. Optimizing Drug Therapy and Enteral Nutrition: Detecting Drug-Nutrient Interactions 10. Techniques and Monitoring of Total Parenteral Nutrition 11. Radiologic Assessment of Nutritional and Metabolic Status 12. Enteral Nutrition: Indications, Monitoring and Complications 13. Enteral Access: Open, Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Technique 14. Total Parenteral Nutrition: Current Concepts and Indications 15. Intestinal Adaptation: New Insights 16. Intestinal Regeneration and Nutrition 17. Nutritional and Metabolic Management of Short Bowel Syndrome 18. Pharmacologic Aspects of Short Bowel Syndrome 19. Nutritional Support in Inflammatory Bowel Disease 20. Nutrition Support of Acute Pancreatitis 21. Nutritional Management of Chronic Pancreatitis: Current Concepts 22. Nutritional Support in Liver Failure and Liver Transplantation 23. Nutritional Support in Renal Transplantation 24. Biology of Nutrition Support in the Critically Ill Patient 25. Nutrition Support in Patients with Pulmonary Failure and ARDS 26. Nutritional Support for the Burned Patient 27. Nutritional Support after Small Bowel Transplantation 28. Nutritional Support in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer 29. Nutritional Support in Patients with Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic and Liver Cancer 30. The Treatment of Obesity