GI motility testing : a laboratory and office handbook

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Label

GI motility testing : a laboratory and office handbook

Title remainder

a laboratory and office handbook

Statement of responsibility

edited by Henry P. Parkman, Richard W. McCallum, Satish S.C. Rao

Title variation

Gastrointestinal motility testing

Contributor

• McCallum, Richard W
• Parkman, Henry P
• Rao, Satish S. C

Subject

• Clinical Laboratory Techniques
• Gastrointestinal Diseases -- diagnosis
• Gastrointestinal Motility
• Gastrointestinal system -- Diseases | Diagnosis -- Laboratory manuals
• Gastrointestinal system -- Motility -- Laboratory manuals

Genre

• Laboratory manuals

Language

eng

Summary

• GI Motility Testing: A Laboratory and Office Handbook is a comprehensive and practical book that describes how to properly perform and interpret GI motility tests in conjunction with learning GI motility and neurogastroenterology. --
• Drs. Henry P. Parkman, Richard. W. McCallum, Satish S.C. Rao, and their contributors carefully detail the wide range of procedures that are used for the evaluation of patients in the GI motility-laboratory. Inside GI Motility Testing, chapters have been comprehensively written and fully illustrated with examples of tracings and studies. This detailed book discusses the most up-to-date equipment and technology, while providing a solid understanding of normal and abnormal manometry patterns as well as information on billing and coding. --
• Some Chapter Topics Include: --
• Impedance Studies, High-Resolution Manometry, and Sensitivity Testing in Assessing Esophageal Disorders --
• Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy --
• Breath Testing for Carbohydrate Malabsorption and Bacterial Overgrowth --
• Assessment of Gut,Transit with Radiopaque Markers and Scintigraphy --
• Novel Tests, such as Wireless Motility Capsule for Evaluation of Regional and Whole Gut Transit/Motility --
• Functional Brain Imaging in GI Neurophysiology --
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease --
• Gastropares --
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome --
• Constipation --
• Fecal Incontinence --
• GI Motility Testing: A Laboratory and Office Handbook carefully explains how to integrate diagnostic information into decision making for day-to-day patient care, making it ideal for gastroenterologists, surgeons, GI fellows, internists, physician assistants, technicians, nurses, and nurse practitioners. --Book Jacket

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

616.3/3075

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

RC803

LC item number

.G37 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• handbooks

NLM call number

• 2010 M-799
• WI141

NLM item number

.G37 2011