Quo Vadis Medical Healing : Past Concepts and New Approaches
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edited by Susanna Elm, Stefan N. Willich.
--Dordrecht:
Springer Netherlands
, c2009.
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- Elm, Susanna
- Other Authors
- Willich, Stefan N
- Responsibility
- edited by Susanna Elm, Stefan N. Willich
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication
- c2009
- Series Vol.
- 44
- ISBN
- 9781402089428
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Philosophy, Medical
- Ethics, Medical
- History of Medicine
- Religion and Medicine
- Social Medicine
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medical ethics
- Social sciences
- History of medicine
- Religion
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- e-Book
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- Online
Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis : From Epidemiology and Immunobiology to a Rational Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30928
Daniel C. Baumgart, editor.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2012.
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The conditions of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are excellent examples of how the exponential growth of knowledge in biomedical science can make a remarkable impact on clinical practice and patient's quality of life. It has led to the development of unique novel immunomodulatory treatments. These are continuously being refined to treat not only the two original conditions in the gut, but the systemic immunologic illness with its associated extraintestinal disorders. New therapies are …
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- Baumgart, Daniel C
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- Daniel C. Baumgart, editor
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
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- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 754 p. : 151 ill., 116 ill. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781461409984
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- Crohn Disease
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Gastroenterology
- Abstract
- The conditions of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are excellent examples of how the exponential growth of knowledge in biomedical science can make a remarkable impact on clinical practice and patient's quality of life. It has led to the development of unique novel immunomodulatory treatments. These are continuously being refined to treat not only the two original conditions in the gut, but the systemic immunologic illness with its associated extraintestinal disorders. New therapies are sometimes complex and associated with important risks requiring a deeper understanding of their molecular principles from clinicians. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis serves as a unique combined resource for physicians and scientists addressing the needs of both groups. It will stimulate exchange and collaboration and shorten the path between discovery and application of new knowledge and also help clinicians understand new therapeutic concepts from their origins. This volume provides an introduction to mucosal immunology which forms the basis of modern immunotherapy. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the current diagnostic modalities, including enhanced imaging techniques such as MRI and CT enterography, virtual colonoscopy, ultrasound, and endomicroscopy as well as conventional and complex immunomodulatory principles. Each chapter is written by experts in their field and includes the most up to date information. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis will be of great value to gastroenterologists, surgeons, internists, pediatricians and gynecologists trainees, as well as all those involved in Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and related autoimmune disorders.
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- The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease -- Environmental factors in the epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease -- The intestinal immune system in health -- Understanding the epithelial barrier in inflammatory bowel disease -- Intestinal microbiology and ecology in inflammatory bowel disease -- Microbial recognition and pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) receptors in inflammatory bowel disease -- Inflammasomes in inflammatory bowel disease -- Antimicrobial peptides in inflammatory bowel disease -- Vascular responses to intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease -- Immunobiology of dendritic cells in inflammatory bowel disease -- Immunobiology of T-Cells in inflammatory bowel disease -- Immunobiology of B-Cells in inflammatory bowel disease -- Immunobiology of monocytes and macrophages in inflammatory bowel disease -- Immunobiology of epithelial cells in inflammatory bowel disease -- The Th1, Th2 and Th17 paradigm in inflammatory bowel disease -- Preclinical studies using mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease -- Enhanced endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease -- MRI in Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- CT in inflammatory bowel disease -- Ultrasound in inflammatory bowel disease -- Laboratory evaluation including novel diagnostic markers of inflammatory bowel disease -- Histology and pathology of inflammatory bowel disease -- Activity indices based assessment of disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease -- Endoscopic assessment of disease activity and mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease -- Evaluation of quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease -- The natural history of inflammatory bowel disease -- Conventional medical management of Crohn's disease: sulfasalazine -- Conventional medical management of Crohn's disease: corticosteroids -- Conventional medical management of Crohn's disease: azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine -- Conventional medical management of Crohn's Disease: Methotrexate -- Biologic Treatment of Crohn's Disease: Adalimumab -- Biologic Treatment of Crohn's Disease: Certolizumab -- Biologic Therapy of Crohn's disease: Infliximab -- Biologic Treatment of Crohn's Disease: briakinumab and ustekinumab -- Biologic Treatment of Crohn's Disease: natalizumab, vedolizumab and edrolizumab (rHUMab beta 7) -- Conventional medical management of ulcerative colitis: sulfasalazine and 5-aminosalicylates -- Conventional medical management of ulcerative colitis: corticosteroids -- Conventional medical management of ulcerative colitis: azathioprinetherapy: Azathioprine -- Conventional medical management of ulcerative colitis: cyclosporine -- Conventional medical management of ulcerative colitis: tacrolimus -- Biologic therapy of ulcerative colitis: infliximab and adalimumab -- Biologic therapy of ulcerative colitis: natalizumab, vedolizumab, edrolizumab (rHUMab beta 7) -- Probiotics, prebiotics, and antibiotics in medical management inflammatory bowel disease -- Step-Up vs. Top-Down Approach in medical management of inflammatory bowel disease -- Surgical management of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis -- Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: autoimmune hepatitis -- Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) -- Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: autoimmune pancreatitis and other IgG4-related conditions -- Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: cutaneous and oral manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease -- Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: arthritis, arthropathy and osteoporosis -- Nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease -- Fertility and pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease -- Pediatric aspects in inflammatory bowel disease -- Management and prevention of infectious diseases in inflammatory bowel disease patients -- Diagnosis and management of colorectal neoplasia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease -- How to identify high risk patients in inflammatory bowel disease? -- Patient perspective on inflammatory bowel disease -- Patient resources in inflammatory bowel disease.
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- Online
On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants : What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
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Robert B. Taylor.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2015.
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Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine's "giants"--such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross--are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and what did he identify as the real…
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- Taylor, Robert B
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- Robert B. Taylor
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- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 251 p. : 100 illus., 48 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781493913350
- 9781493913343 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Medical
- History of Medicine
- Philosophy, Medical - history
- Physicians - history
- Abstract
- Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine's "giants"--such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross--are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and what did he identify as the real essential factor in all successful medical diagnoses? What did Sigmund Freud describe as his "tyrant" and what might this mean for doctors today? Do you know the attributed source of the well-known aphorism about horses and zebras, and what we believe this physician actually said? This book answers these questions and more, while also providing fascinating tales about each individual quoted. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants is recommended for practicing physicians, students, and residents, as well as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and anyone involved in patient care who wants to understand the historical and epistemological foundations of what we do each day in practice. Robert B. Taylor, MD is the author and editor of more than 30 medical books and several hundred published articles, as well as a veteran of rural private practice and chairmanship of a major medical school department.
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- The Profession and Professionalism -- Being a Physician -- The Art and Science of Doctoring -- Health, Disease, Illness, and Death -- Disease Detection and Diagnosis -- Therapy and Healing -- Learning and Teaching Medicine -- Medical Experience, Knowledge, and Wisdom -- Errors, Uncertainty, and Ethical Issues -- Current Issues and Future Practice.
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Advances in Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Toshifumi Hibi, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, Taku Kobayashi, editors.
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Springer
, c2018.
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Advances in Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease summarizes the recent progress made in endoscopy, an essential tool for the diagnosis and management of IBD. It goes on to provide an introduction of state-of-the-art endoscopic techniques, as well as an atlas of high-quality endoscopic images of IBD and related diseases. Among others, endoscopy is one of the clinical fields in which Asian countries are leading the way in the management of gastrointestinal disorders. As the number of patients …
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- Hibi, Toshifumi
- Hisamatsu, Tadakazu
- Kobayashi, Taku
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- Toshifumi Hibi, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, Taku Kobayashi, editors
- Alternate Title
- Endoscopy in IBD
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 282 p.) : 110 illus., 102 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9784431560180
- 9784431560166 (print ed.)
- 9784431560173 (print ed.)
- 9784431567547 (print ed.)
- Specialty
- Endoscopy
- Gastroenterology
- Abstract
- Advances in Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease summarizes the recent progress made in endoscopy, an essential tool for the diagnosis and management of IBD. It goes on to provide an introduction of state-of-the-art endoscopic techniques, as well as an atlas of high-quality endoscopic images of IBD and related diseases. Among others, endoscopy is one of the clinical fields in which Asian countries are leading the way in the management of gastrointestinal disorders. As the number of patients with IBD is dramatically increasing in Asia, quality of patient care has been significantly improved. With diagnosis of intestinal Behcet, simple ulcers, and intestinal tuberculosis, which are unique to the Asian countries, this book offers the ideal standard textbook for IBD endoscopy in all Asian counties, while the superior quality of images also makes it a valuable resource for practitioners around the globe. This book will significantly help all physicians, endoscopists and researchers working on GI endoscopy, especially those focusing on IBD, to improve their knowledge of IBD endoscopy.
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- Part I. The role of endoscopy in IBD -- 1. The Role of Endoscopy in IBD -- 2. Current progress of endoscopy in IBD: Colonoscopy -- 3. Current progress of endoscopy in IBD: Balloon enteroscopy -- 4. Current progress of endoscopy in IBD: Capsule endoscopy -- 5. Current progress of endoscopy in IBD: CT enterography and CT colonography in IBD -- 6. Current progress of endoscopy in IBD: MR Enterography -- Part II. Endoscopic diagnosis of IBD -- 7. Diagnosis of UC-typical findings and diagnostic criteria -- 8. Typical Endoscopic Findings and Diagnostic Criteria for Crohn's Disease -- 9. Differential diagnosis of IBD: Endoscopic findings and diagnosis of intestinal Behçet’s disease and simple ulcer syndrome -- 10. Differential diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Endoscopic findings and diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis -- 11. Endoscopic findings and diagnosis of other inflammatory bowel diseases of lower GI tract -- 12. Endoscopic findings and Diagnosis of other inflammatory diseases of lower GI tract (except for infectious): vascular, eosinophilic, inflammation associated with other diseases etc -- 13. Endoscopic findings and Diagnosis of infectious diseases of lower GI tract: bacterial, pseudomembraneous, amoebic colitis CMV -- 14. Difficulty in diagnosing IBD: a case study -- Part III. Endoscopy in the management of IBD -- 15. Endoscopy in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Who, When, and How -- 16. Endoscopic index in UC -- 17. Endoscopic score in Crohn's disease -- 18. Mucosal healing in UC -- 19. The efficacies and issues for endoscopic assessment of mucosal healing in patients with Crohn's disease -- 20. Endoscopic intervention in IBD -- 21. Surveillance colonoscopy -- 22. Surveillance colonoscopy (Cases of small intestinal cancers in CD, Cases of anal cancers in CD) -- Part IV.: Endoscopy in IBD- international differences -- 23. Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Asian perspectives with respect to Japan -- 24. Endoscopy in IBD: Asian Perspective: Korea -- 25. Endoscopy in Chinese IBD patients: similarities and differences to the Western world -- 26. Endoscopy in IBD: A South Asian perspective from India -- 27. Endoscopy in IBD: Asian Perspective: Singapore -- 28. Endoscopy in IBD: Western perspectives: North America -- 29. Endoscopy in IBD: Western Perspective: Europe.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Cross-Sectional Imaging in Crohn’s Disease
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Jordi Rimola, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2019.
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This book comprehensively describes the state of the art in cross-sectional imaging of Crohn’s disease from both a clinical and a radiological perspective. The uses and impact of the different imaging techniques in daily practice and research are thoroughly examined, with coverage of ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance. In addition, emerging trends are scrutinized. The background to the book is an increasing perception that intestinal inflammation and complications are underd…
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- Rimola, Jordi
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- Jordi Rimola, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 176 p.) : 70 illus., 19 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319965864
- 9783319965857 (Print ed.)
- 9783319965871 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Crohn Disease - diagnostic imaging
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Ultrasonography
- Specialty
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Gastroenterology
- Abstract
- This book comprehensively describes the state of the art in cross-sectional imaging of Crohn’s disease from both a clinical and a radiological perspective. The uses and impact of the different imaging techniques in daily practice and research are thoroughly examined, with coverage of ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance. In addition, emerging trends are scrutinized. The background to the book is an increasing perception that intestinal inflammation and complications are underdiagnosed using standard endoscopic or surgical techniques. Patients with Crohn’s disease usually require multiple reassessments during their lifetimes and often favor noninvasive techniques with a low risk of complications. These factors have reinforced the need for effective cross-sectional imaging techniques. Additionally, the expanding use of biologic agents, combined with their increased efficacy, expense, and risk, justifies the use of these techniques (particularly ultrasound and magnetic resonance) to monitor disease treatment and objectively measure inflammation and healing. Cross-Sectional Imaging in Crohn’s Disease will be of high value for both gastroenterologists and diagnostic radiologists.
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- 1. The Clinical Impact of Cross-Sectional Imaging on Crohn’s Disease Management -- 2. Bowel Ultrasound Imaging, Protocol and Findings -- 3. Ultrasound Elastography of the Bowel -- 4. MR and CT Imaging Techniques of the Bowel -- 5. MR Enterography and CT Enterography for Detecting Activity and Complications -- 6. Functional Cross-Sectional Imaging Techniques in Crohn’s Disease -- 7. Role of Imaging in Detecting Bowel Fibrosis and Bowel Damage -- 8. MRI of Perianal Crohn’s Disease -- 9. Cross-Sectional Imaging Indexes for Crohn’s Disease.
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- e-Book
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- Online
