Geriatric Gastroenterology

About this book

A multi-author reference on digestive disease in older adults, organised into sixteen parts and more than a hundred chapters. It opens with perspectives from geriatrics and gastroenterology, epidemiology, ethics and the basic science of ageing, then covers pharmacology, nutrition, endoscopy, imaging, pathology and motility disorders. Later parts deal with presenting symptoms, the liver, biliary tree and pancreas, luminal disorders, infections, gastrointestinal cancers, vascular disorders, surgery and systemic disease. Written for gastroenterologists, geriatricians and internists who care for elderly patients.