Product Description

Gut Instincts: A Clinician’s Handbook of Digestive and Liver Diseases is a practical handbook that focuses on the diagnosis and management of the most commonly encountered digestive diseases.           

Gut Instincts: A Clinician’s Handbook of Digestive and Liver Diseases is portable enough to keep in a lab coat or briefcase, yet informative enough for day-to-day patient care. Written and edited by Dr. Esrailian and over 50 contributing experts, the language throughout is clear and concise enough for application at the office, or at the bedside. Gut Instincts combines knowledge, experience, and evidence, helping providers of all levels to deliver the highest quality patient care. However, the chapters are concise and designed to be used as quick reference even during patient visits.

Unique Benefits and Features Include:

• A “Gut Instincts” sidebar in each chapter with important clinical pearls for patient care
• Addresses the most frequently encountered clinical problems in digestive diseases
• Focuses primarily on diagnosis and management
• More than 50 algorithms, tables, and figures throughout the book
• Uses a coherent format while distributing high-yield information

Some Chapter Topics Include:

• Barrett’s esophagus
• Pancreatic diseases
• Colon polyps
• Non alcoholic fatty liver disease
• Complications of portal hypertension

Gut Instincts combines knowledge, experience, and evidence and is the ideal resource for practicing gastroenterologists and fellows, residents and medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and all primary care providers and trainees on the “front line” of patient care.

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Contents

Section I: Upper Gastrointestinal Tract

Chapter 1: Nausea and Vomiting

Terri Getzug, MD

Chapter 2: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Daniel D. Cho, MD

Chapter 3: Dysphagia

Mark Ovsiowitz, MD

Chapter 4: Motility Disorders of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract

Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD, FACG

Chapter 5: Barrett’s Esophagus

Bennett E. Roth, MD

Chapter 6: Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancies

Zev A. Wainberg, MD, MSc

Chapter 7: Nutrition

Leo Treyzon, MD, MS

Chapter 8: Feeding Tubes: Placement and Management for the Clinician

Stanley Dea, MD

Chapter 9: Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Kevin A. Ghassemi, MD and Dennis M. Jensen, MD

Chapter 10: Acid-Peptic Disorders

Thomas O. G. Kovacs, MD

Chapter 11: Functional Dyspepsia

Richard J. Saad, MD, MS and William D. Chey, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP

Chapter 12: Pancreatic Diseases

James Farrell, MD

Chapter 13: Biliary Diseases

Yasser M. Bhat, MD and Inder M. Singh, MD

Chapter 14: Celiac Disease

Wilfred M. Weinstein, MD

Chapter 15: Bariatric Surgery Patients

Erik P. Dutson, MD, FACS and David Da Zheng, BS

Section II: Lower Gastrointestinal Tract

Chapter 16: Ulcerative Colitis

Gil Y. Melmed, MD, MS

Chapter 17: Crohn’s Disease

Marla Dubinsky, MD

Chapter 18: Pouchitis

Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD and Bo Shen, MD, FACG

Chapter 19: Diarrhea

Lynn Shapiro Connolly, MD and Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH

Chapter 20: Constipation

Lin Chang, MD

Chapter 21: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Emeran A. Mayer, MD

Chapter 22: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

Mark Pimentel, MD, FRCP(C) and Gillian M. Barlow, PhD

Chapter 23: Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Kunut Kijsirichareanchai, MD and Rome Jutabha, MD

Chapter 24: Colorectal Cancer and Screening

Saeed Sadeghi, MD

Chapter 25: Colon Polyps

Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH

Chapter 26: Clostridium Difficile

Theodoros Kelesidis, MD and Charalabos Pothoulakis, MD

Chapter 27: Other Common Gastrointestinal Infections

David A. Pegues, MD

Chapter 28: Ileus and Bowel Obstruction

Lilah F. Morris, MD and O. Joe Hines, MD

Chapter 29: Hemorrhoids

Jonathan Sack, MD

Chapter 30: Fissures, Fistulae, and Condyloma

Jonathan Sack, MD

Chapter 31: Diverticular Disease

Amy Lightner, MD and James Yoo, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Section III: Hepatology

Chapter 32: Abnormal Liver Function Tests

Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD

Chapter 33: Hepatitis B

Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc and Steven-Huy Han, MD, AGAF

Chapter 34: Hepatitis C

Ke-Qin Hu, MD

Chapter 35: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Michel H. Mendler, MD, MS

Chapter 36: Alcoholic Liver Disease

Saro Khemichian, MD and John A. Donovan, MD

Chapter 37: Hereditary Liver Diseases

Fasiha Kanwal, MS, MSHS

Chapter 38: Cholestatic Liver Diseases

Francisco Antonio Durazo, MD, FACP

Chapter 39: Autoimmune Hepatitis

Vivian Ng, MD and Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, AGAF

Chapter 40: Complications of Portal Hypertension

Bruce A. Runyon, MD

Chapter 41: Abnormal Liver Tests in Pregnancy

Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc and Tram T. Tran, MD

Chapter 42: Fulminant Liver Failure and Transplantation

John P. Duffy, MD

Section IV: Endoscopy

Chapter 43: Sedation

Jeremy M. Wong, MD and Samuel H. Wald, MD

Chapter 44: Anticoagulation and Antibiotics in Endoscopy

Kevin A. Ghassemi, MD

Chapter 45: Bowel Preparations for Colonoscopy

Wendy Ho, MD, MPH

Financial Disclosures
Index

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Reviews

“Gut Instincts is a concise handbook for clinicians at all stages of training, from student to experienced clinicians, who need a quick concise read on any major gastroenterology or hepatology topic. It is an exceptional handbook of digestive and liver disease.” 

        -Renee Young, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Gastroenterology

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About the Editor

Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH is the Vice-Chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). The UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases is among the largest and most historic of such divisions in the world.

Attending the University of California at Berkeley and graduating with a major in Integrative Biology and a minor in English, he subsequently graduated from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Esrailian was named intern, junior resident, and senior resident of the year during all 3 years of his residency training. He completed his gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA where he also obtained a Masters of Public Health degree with the assistance of a NIH-sponsored training grant. He is also a graduate of the Executive Program in Management from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He has authored or co-authored manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts on various topics within digestive and liver diseases, and his primary clinical interests include gastrointestinal endoscopy, inflammatory bowel diseases, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and functional gastrointestinal diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome.

In 2010, Dr. Esrailian was appointed to the Medical Board of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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