Description
Book SynopsisCovers endocopic procedures and common surgical operations of the gastrointestinal tract and liver!
Contains an overview of nutrition for normal and sick pediatric patients!
Examines the supply, digestion, absorption, and metabolic utilization of lipids and their importance for growth, body composition, health, and well-being!
Describing early detection and therapeutic approaches to hyperlipidemias in children and young adults, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Clinical Practice
reveals the latest findings on protein and calcium requirements
presents new information on specific nutrients used preferentially by the gut
supplies the rationale for the exclusive use of human milk in breastfeeding infants
explains the use of nucleotides in infant formulas and the emerging benefits of probiotics
offers an overview of recent research and clinical experience in the enteral nutrition of premature infants
Table of Contents
Nutrition
New Knowledge About Protein
Peter J. Reeds
Lipids
Berthold Koletzko
Modulators of Gut Growth and Intestinal Well-Being
Barbara Stoll and Douglas G. Burrin
New Additions to Infant Formulas
Angel Gil
Micro-organisms Administered for the Benefit of the Host: Facts and Myths
Yvan Vandenplas
Breastfeeding: Current Recommendations and Management Issues
Richard J. Schanler
Calcium Intake Requirements of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Steven A. Abrams
Feeding Strategies of the Premature/Sick Infant
Josef Neu
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
Carmen Mikhail
Obesity
Andrew M. Tershakovec, Andrea S. Hiralall, and Virginia A. Stallings
Hyperlipidemias
Tracy Harpel Laird and J. Timothy Bricker
Failure to Thrive
Jere Ziffer Lifshitz and Fima Lifshitz
Feeding Disorders
Carlos H. Lifschitz
Carbohydrate Malabsorption
Jan Dekker, Alexandra W. C. Einerhand, and Hans A. Büller
A Rational Approach to Feeding Infants and Young Children with Acute Diarrhea
Kenneth H. Brown
Nutritional Support of the Chronically Ill Child
Harland S. Winter and Jacqueline Madden
Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Robert J. Shulman and Sarah Phillips
Nutrition in Disorders of Amino Acid Metabolism
Marcello Giovannini, Carlo Agostini, and Enrica Riva
Gastroenterology
Gastroesophageal Reflux
Colin D. Rudolph
Peptic Ulcer Disease and Gastritis
Gisela Chelimsky, Beverly Barrett Dahms, and Steven J. Czinn
Celiac Disease
Isabel Polanco
Chronic Abdominal Pain
Donna K. Zeiter and Jeffrey S. Hyams
Constipation and Encopresis
Vera Loening-Baucke
Motility Disorders
Carlo Di Lorenzo
Food Allergy
Uzma Shah and W. A. Walker
Gastrointestinal Bleeding
William R. Treem
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
George Marx and Ernest G. Seidman
Chronic Diarrhea
John Angus Walker-Smith
Short Bowel Syndrome
Jon A. Vanderhoof and Rosemary J. Young
Liver Disease
Deirdre Anne Kelly
Diseases of the Pancreas
Kevin J. Gaskin
Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography, and Colonoscopy
George Gershman and Marvin E. Ament
Surgical Operations of the Gastrointestinal Tract
Akira Okada and Akio Kubota
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