Top 100 Secrets I. Esophagus 1. Swallowing Disorders and Dysphagia 7 Francis C. Okeke and John O. Clarke 2. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 14 Fehmi Ates and Michael Vaezi 3. Esophageal Causes of Chest Pain 21 Vito V. Cirigliano and Fouad J. Moawad 4. Achalasia 29 Joel E. Richter 5. Esophageal Cancer 36 Peter R. McNally, Nimish B. Vakil and John C. Deutsch 6. Esophageal Anomalies, Infections, and Nonacid Injuries 43 Mary A. Atia and Francisco C. Ramirez 7. Barrett's Esophagus 51 Nimish B. Vakil 8. Esophageal and Stomach Pathology 55 Shalini Tayal II. Stomach 9. Gastritis, Peptic Ulcer Disease, NSAIDS, and Helicobacter pylori Infection 66 Elizabeth Coss and Byron Cryer 10. Gastric Cancer 74 John C. Deutsch 11. Thickened Gastric Folds 81 Ryan M. Kwok and Patrick E. Young 12. Gastroparesis 87 Richard W. McCallum and Joseph K. Sunny Jr. III. Liver & Biliary Tract Disorders 13. Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Tests 95 Emily Carey and William D. Carey 14. General Concepts on Viral Hepatitis 101 Christina Hanson, Gail Pearson and Marcelo Kugelmas 15. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C 106 Jorge L. Herrera 16. Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis B 115 Jorge L. Herrera 17. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Diagnosis 121 Albert J. Czaja 18. Autoimmune Hepatitis: Treatment 133 Albert J. Czaja 19. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis 146 John E. Eaton, Jayant A. Talwalkar and Nicholas F. LaRusso 20. Vaccinations and Immunoprophylaxis in Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders 155 Henry A. Horton, Hayoon Kim and Gil Y. Melmed 21. Pregnancy and Liver Disease 161 Devina Bhasin and Roshan Shrestha 22. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Hepatobiliary Diseases 169 Sterling G. West 23. Evaluation of Focal Liver Masses 175 Mark W. Russo and Roshan Shrestha 24. Drug-Induced Liver Disease 183 Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Cemal Yazici and Mark W. Russo 25. Alcoholic Liver Disease, Acoholism and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome 193 Clark Kulig 26. Vascular Liver Disease 202 Dawn M. Torres and Angelo H. Paredes 27. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis 210 Dawn M. Torres and Stephen A. Harrison 28. Liver Transplantation 216 Stevan A. Gonzalez and James F. Trotter 29. Ascites 225 Phillip S. Ge, Carlos Guarner and Bruce A. Runyon 30. Liver Abscess 237 Jorge L. Herrera and Christopher D. Knudsen 31. Inheritable Forms of Liver Disease 243 Bruce R. Bacon 32. Liver Histopathology 250 Kiyoko Oshima 33. Hepatobiliary Cystic Disease 260 Joshua Friedman and Marianne Augustine 34. Gallbladder Disease: Stones, Crystals and Sludge 266 Cynthia W. Ko and Sum P. Lee 35. ERCP Plus Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction 271 Raj J. Shah IV. Pancreatic Disorders 36. Acute Pancreatitis 277 Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin 37. Chronic Pancreatitis 287 Enrique Molina and Jamie S. Barkin 38. Pancreatic Cancer 296 Shajan Peter, Ji Young Bang and Shyam Varadarajulu 39. Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas 305 Brenda Hoffman and Jason R. Roberts V. Small and Large Bowel Disorders 40. Celiac Disease 308 Daniel A. Leffler and Rohini R. Vanga 41. Crohn's Disease 313 Bret A. Lashner and Aaron Brzezinski 42. Ulcerative Colitis 321 Ramona O. Rajapakse and Burton I. Korelitz 43. Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis 328 Shahan Fernando and Glenn T. Furuta 44. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth 334 Catherine S. Manolakis, Travis J. Rutland and Jack A. Di Palma VI. Colon Disorders 45. Colon Disorders and Colon Cancer 339 Carole Macaron and Carol Ann Burke 46. Constipation and Fecal Incontinence 349 Reena Chokshi and Suzanne Rose 47. Diverticulitis 358 Luca Stocchi 48. Diseases of the Appendix 365 Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen 49. Colitis: Pseudomembranous, Microscopic, and Radiation 369 Stephen M. Vindigni, Jill M. Watanabe, and Christina M. Surawicz VII. General Symptoms and Conditions 50. Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage 377 Davinder Sandhu and Lisa Strate 51. Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding 384 Joseph G. Cheatham and John D. Horwhat 52. Occult and Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding 391 Mitchell S. Cappell 53. Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain 398 John S. Goff 54. Evaluation of Acute Infectious Diarrhea 405 Ramiro L. Gutierrez, Wesley R. Campbell, Scott E. Cunningham, Mark S. Riddle and Patrick E. Young 55. Chronic Diarrhea 414 Lawrence R. Schiller 56. AIDS and the Gastrointestinal Tract 427 C. Mel Wilcox and Klaus E. Moenkemuller 57. Ischemic Bowel Disease 435 Siobhan Proksell, Amar R. Deshpande, and Arvey I. Rogers 58. Nutrition, Malnutrition and Probiotics 443 Bonnie Jortberg and Peter R. McNally 59. Small Bowel and Colon Pathology 453 Shalini Tayal 60. Foreign Bodies and the Gastrointestinal Tract 469 George Triadafilopoulos 61. Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Irritable Bowel 472 Anthony Lembo and Vivian Cheng 62. Endoscopic Cancer Screening and Surveillance 481 David P. Jones VIII. Multisystem Manifestations of GI Disease 63. Rheumatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Diseases 490 Sterling G. West 64. Dermatologic Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease 500 James E. Fitzpatrick and Lori D. Prok 65. Endocrine Aspects of Gastrointestinal System 503 Geetha Gopalakrishnan and Harikrashna Bhatt IX. Gastrointestinal Radiology 66. Plain Film, Barium and Virtual Radiography 513 Michael Reiter 67. Interventional Radiology I: Cross-Sectional Imaging Procedures 523 Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ 68. Interventional Radiology II: Fluoroscopic and Angiographic Procedures 533 Kimi L. Kondo and Paul D. Russ 69. Noninvasive GI Imaging: Ultrasound, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging 541 Michael G. Fox and Ryan Kaliney 70. Nuclear Imaging 560 Won S. Song 71. Endoscopic Ultrasound 569 Linda S. Lee X. Surgery and the GI Tract 72. Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy 578 Daphne Antillon and Mainor Antillon 73. Esophageal Surgery 589 Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis 74. Surgery for Peptic Ulcer Disease 599 Theodore N. Pappas and Georgios Kokosis 75. Surgical Approach to the Acute Abdomen 609 Kevin Rothchild and Jonathan A. Schoen 76. Colorectal Surgery: Polyposis Syndromes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease 614 Martin D. McCarter 77. Obesity and Surgical Weight Loss 621 Jonathan A. Schoen 78. Minimally Invasive Surgery 626 John J. Tiedeken and Anthony LaPorta Clinical Vignettes (Online Only) Peter R. McNally
