Capsule Endoscopy, Text with DVD

This very first comprehensive resource on capsule endoscopy clearly explains everything you need to know about video capsule endoscopy. It will help you efficiently and effectively diagnose hard to pinpoint GI conditions, including obscure GI bleeding, malabsorption, chronic abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Abundantly illustrated, this unique resource features clinical guidelines and authoritative guidance from expert contributors to ensure you understand every nuance of capsule endoscopy—from how the capsule works to setting up your own suite to the use of capsule endoscopy for each part of the small intestine to non-small bowel indications.

Reviews
The contributors to this text represent recognised experts in the field. The book is beautifully illustrated including pathology slides and well referenced. This text will be of interest to all Gastroenterologists with an interest in small bowel disease including the majority of colorectal surgeons who frequently employ this technology and look after conditions where it is indicated.
Colorectal Disease - March 2008

Key Features

Includes more than 900 images and videos—including relevant pathology slides—of all conditions that can be identified using a capsule endoscope so you can make the best informed diagnosis.

Presents detailed discussions on preparation, techniques, indications, precautions, contraindications, diagnostic checklists, further testing suggestions, and billing guidelines to help you confidently handle everything you might encounter in clinical practice.

Examines the developing indications for the technique to prepare you for the widespread use of the procedure in the near future.

Uses a tightly focused, consistently organized format, ensuring you get all the information you need without the repetition you don't want.

Offers a DVD of procedural video clips that provide context and clinical relevancy to static images and enhances interpretation.

Features a downloadable image bank that lets you create electronic presentation.

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Table of Contents
Section 1
Chapter 1 History and future

Chapter 2 How does the capsule work

Chapter 3 How to set up the suite and perform capsule endoscopy

Chapter 4 Reading, reporting and training

Chapter 5 The role of Surgery in Capsule Endscopy

Chapter 6 Systematization of Terminology for Capsule Endoscopy

Section 2: Small Bowel

Chapter 7 Normal small bowel and normal variants of the small bowel

Section 3: Clinical Problems

Chapter 8 Approach to the patient with GI bleeding

Chapter 9 Approach to the patient with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 10 Approach to the patient with Abdominal Pain

Chapter 11 Approach to the patient with Obstruction

Chapter 12 Approach to the Pediatric Patient

Section 4: Diseases of the Small Bowel

Chapter 13 Use of Capsule Endoscopy for the Evaluation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 14 NSAIDs, Radiation, Foriegn Bodies

Chapter 15 Vascular Abnormalities of the Small Bowel

Chapter 16 Benign and malignant tumors of the Small Bowel

Chapter 17 Malabsorption

Chapter 18 Small Bowel Transplantation and Graft vs Host

Section 5: Non-small bowel indications

Chapter 19 Capsule endoscopy in the stomach and colon

Chapter 20 Esophagus




Author Information
By Douglas O. Faigel, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA; and David R. Cave, MD, PHD, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA