Treatment and Management of Adult and Pediatric Patients with Intestinal Failure

Business Wire,  May 13, 2008  

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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91474) has announced the addition of "Intestinal Failure" to their offering.

This book considers the diagnosis, treatment (both medical and surgical) and management of adult and pediatric patients with intestinal failureIt provides a long term view in dealing with these patients to improve results, quality of life and patient care.

Key Topics:

- The History of Intestinal Failure and Transplantation

- Intestinal Morphology, Intestinal Regeneration and the Promise of Tissue Engineering

- Basic Physiology of Motility, Absorption and Secretion

- Immunology of the Small Intestine

- Intestinal Adaptation: The Biology of the Intestinal Response to Resection and Disease

- Intestinal Failure: Definitions and Classifications

- Causes of Intestinal Failure in the Newborn

- Congenital Enteropathies Causing Permanent Intestinal Failure

- Causes of Intestinal Failure in the Adult

- Intestinal Failure Related to Bariatric Surgery

- Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Short Bowel Syndrome

- Motility Disorders

- Assessment of Intestinal Failure Patients

- Guidelines for Home Parenteral Nutrition Support in Chronic Intestinal Failure Patients

- Home Parenteral Nutrition: Complications, Survival, Costs and Quality of Life

- Vascular Access, Including Complications

- Enteral Support for Children with Intestinal Failure

- The Use of Enteral Nutrition in the Adult with Intestinal Failure

- The Enteric Flora in Intestinal Failure: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth and Gut-Derived Sepsis

- Management of Complex Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances

- Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease

- Psychiatric Issues in the Assessment of the Patient with Intestinal Failure

- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

- Luminal Nutrient Factors in Intestinal Adaptation and Their Use in Therapy

- The Role of Humoral Factors in Intestinal Adaptation

- Autologous Reconstruction of the GI Tract

- Intestinal Transplantation

- Isolated Small Bowel Transplantation and Combined Liver-Small Bowel Transplantation

- Living Donor Intestinal Transplantation

- Isolated Liver Transplantation for Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease

- Preservation of the Intestine

- Immediate Postoperative Care of the Intestinal Transplant Recipient

- Surgical Complications of Intestinal Transplantation

- Infections in Small Bowel Transplant Recipients

- Immunosuppression after Intestinal Transplantation

- Immunology of Intestinal Allograft Rejection

- Histopathology of Intestinal Transplantation

- Long-Term Management of Intestinal Transplant Recipients

- Management of Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease

- Results of Intestinal Transplantation

- Psychosocial Assessment and Management of the Transplant Patient/Family in Intestinal Transplantation

- Financial, Economic and Insurance Issues Pertaining to Intestinal Transplantation: When Is Too Much Not Enough?

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91474

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