Clinicians' Guide to Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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CLINICIANS' GUIDE TO Inflammatory Bőivel Disease ALASTAIR FORBES 'The burgeoning literature on inflammatory bowel disease provides too much information too fast for the average clinician. How can he or she feel confident when answering patients' questions, advising between alternative treatments or watching the literature for significant advance? The answer is to read this book.' From the foreword by John Lennard-Jones. Inflammatory bowel disease has become one of the most rapidly changing fields within gastroenterology; Crohn's disease in particular appears to be entering a new phase of increasing incidence and prevalence. Clinicians' Guide to Inflammatory Bowel Disease presents current knowledge in a compact and digestible formát designed to enable doctors to take full advantage of that knowledge in such a way as to meet their own needs, and those of their patients, most appropriately. The volume occupies a niche between the generál textbook and the large reference book. Written... Tovább

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CLINICIANS' GUIDE TO Inflammatory Bőivel Disease ALASTAIR FORBES 'The burgeoning literature on inflammatory bowel disease provides too much information too fast for the average clinician. How can he or she feel confident when answering patients' questions, advising between alternative treatments or watching the literature for significant advance? The answer is to read this book.' From the foreword by John Lennard-Jones. Inflammatory bowel disease has become one of the most rapidly changing fields within gastroenterology; Crohn's disease in particular appears to be entering a new phase of increasing incidence and prevalence. Clinicians' Guide to Inflammatory Bowel Disease presents current knowledge in a compact and digestible formát designed to enable doctors to take full advantage of that knowledge in such a way as to meet their own needs, and those of their patients, most appropriately. The volume occupies a niche between the generál textbook and the large reference book. Written primarily for doctors who treat gastrointestinal disease, it is alsó suitable for the interested student, those in professions allied to medicine and those in the pharmaceutical and related industries who need to keep abreast of developments in this important area. Alastair Forbes is Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark's Hospitál for Intestinal and Colorectal Disorders, Sub-Dean of the St Mark's Academic Institute and Honorary Senior Lecturer to Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK. His clinical, teaching and research interests lie firmly in the fields of inflammatory bowel disease and nutritional support. He publishes widely and has developed an international reputation for his lecturing on these topics. Vissza