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Rapid Reference Series
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By
Emad El-Omar
Richard Peek
Included in series
Rapid Reference,
Description
Each title in the RAPID REFERENCE series provides the reader with authoritative and accessible information from a clinical expert in the
field, to assist with treatment decisions. Each title includes standard core content (epidemiology, management, therapy) combined with
the additional information?such as FAQs and patient organizations?needed by the primary care practitioners to provide effective patient
care. The books also include drug listings, clinical trials, information on future developments, and web site listings, to keep the reader
up to speed with new developments and to extend their knowledge of the disease area. Titles in the series focus on chronic conditions
seen most often in the primary care setting. With patients becoming better informed about the nature and management of their conditions,
Rapid Reference is a timely new series that offers the primary care practitioners easy access to the best information for patient care
and management.
Audience
Primary Care / Family Practice Practitioners and Residents, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners
Contents
Rapid Reference to Dyspepsia
Acknowledgement
Foreward
(Professor Kenneth McColl)
Introduction and Background
Definition of Dyspepsia
Epidemiology
Aetiology:
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Clinical Features:
Common symptoms
Pointers to organic disease
Clinical
examination
Investigations:
Indications for investigations
Non-invasive tests
Invasive tests
Organic
Dyspepsia:
Helicobacter pylori-induced peptic ulcer disease
NSAID-induced peptic ulcer disease
Reflux oesophagitis
Gastric
neoplasia
Cholelithiasis
Non Ulcer Dyspepsia:
Ulcer like
Reflux like
Dysmotility like
Management
of Dyspepsia:
Indications for Helicobacter pylori eradication
Role of eradication therapy in non ulcer dyspepsia
Antisecretory
medication
Prokinetic medication
Non drug treatment of dyspepsia
Algorithms for the management of dypepsia
Future
Developments
Frequently Asked Questions
References
Appendix 1:
Drugs
Appendix 2:
Useful Addresses and Websites
Index
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Paperback, 128 pages, publication date: NOV-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7234-3326-2
ISBN-10: 0-7234-3326-7
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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