Timothy B Gardner - Böcker

Questions & Answers About Diseases of the Pancreas provides authoritative and practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. Providing both doctor and patient perspectives, this easy-to-read book is a comprehensive guide to the basics of pancreatic diseases, risk factors and prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and life after diagnosis. Written by Dr. Timothy B. Gardner, Director of Pancreatic Disorders at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Questions & Answers About Disease of the Pancreas is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in learning what to expect after being diagnosed with pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, pancreatic insufficiency, diabetes, cystic fibrosis or other pancreatic diseases.

This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the field, with expert recommendations on prediction and management.

This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the field, with expert recommendations on prediction and management. It details the recent consensus guidelines (2012) updating the definition of pancreatitis and its complications. The text thoughtfully summarizes the current prediction models for severe acute pancreatitis, including laboratory, clinical and imaging parameters. It also highlights the relative advantages and disadvantages of several of these models. Evidenced-based guidelines into medical and surgical management of both the hospitalized and discharged patient are described, with recommendations from expert authors pertaining to various clinical situations. Finally, complications of acute pancreatitis and their management, including the use of cutting-edge minimally-invasive therapies, is discussed. Prediction and Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis will serve as the fundamental source for those interested in and treating this disease, including practicing gastroenterologists, surgeons, radiologists, intensivists, hospitalists and pathologists.