Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Covers 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 details diagnoses and therapies for infants and children with severe feeding problems gives critical insight into intravenous nutrition considers the digestive enzymes and transporter proteins needed to absorb carbohydrates as well as the consequences of their deficiencies Addressing nutritional, metabolic, and mechanistic aspects of protein, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Clinical Practice is a comprehensive reference for pediatricians; pediatric gastroenterologists, hepatologists, and nutritionists; molecular biologists; geneticists; neonatologists; pathologists; and medical students in these disciplines.

Steven A. Abrams, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, Texas Carlo Agostini, M.D. Department of Pediatrics, University of Milan, and San Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy Marvin E. Ament, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California J. Timothy Bricker, M.D. Professor and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas Kenneth H. Brown, M.D. Professor, Department of Nutrition, and Director, Program in International Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, California Hans A. Buller, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus University Medical Center, and Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Douglas G. Burrin, Ph.D. Research Physiologist, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Gisela Chelimsky, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio Steven J. Czinn, M.D. Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio Beverly Barrett Dahms, M.D. Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Jan Dekker, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Carlo Di Lorenzo, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh, and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Alexandra W. C. Einerhand, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Kevin J. Gaskin, M.D., F.R.A.C.P. Professor, James Fairfax Institute of Pediatric Nutrition, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia George Gershman, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California Angel Gil, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Marcello Giovannini, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Milan, and San Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy Tracy Harpel Laird, M.D. Fellow, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas Andrea S. Hiralall, Ph.D. Psychologist, Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jeffrey S. Hyams, M.D. Professor, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, and Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut Deirdre Anne Kelly, M.D., F.R.C.P.CH, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.I. Reader in Pediatric Hepatology, The Liver Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, England Berthold Koletzko, M.D. Professor and Head, Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Munich, and Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munich, Germany Akio Kubota, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Izumi, Osaka, Japan Carlos H. Lifschitz, M.D. Associate Professor, Section of Nutrition and Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas Fima Lifshitz, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York, New York, and Chief of Staff and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida Jere Ziffer Lifshitz, M.S., R.N. President, Prime Health Consultants, Inc., Miami, Florida Vera Loening-Baucke, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Jacqueline Madden, M.S., R.N., C.S. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts George Marx, M.D. Fellow, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, and Ste. Justine Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Carmen Mikhail, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Josef Neu, M.D. Professor, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida Akira Okada, M.D., F.A.C.S. Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Osaka, Japan Sarah Phillips, M.S., R.D., L.D., C.N.S.D. Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Isabel Polanco, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and Head, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Hospital Infantil Universitario "La Paz," Madrid, Spain Peter J. Reeds, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Enrica Riva, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Neonatology, University of Milan, and San Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy Colin D. Rudolph, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Richard J. Schanler, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Ernest G. Seidman, M.D. Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Nutrition, University of Montreal, and Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Ste. Justine Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Uzma Shah, M.D. Instructor, Combined Program in Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Harvard Medical School, and MassGeneral Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Robert J. Shulman, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Virginia A. Stallings, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Barbara Stoll, Ph.D. Research Associate, Department of Pediatrics, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Andrew M. Tershakovec, M.D. Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania William R. Treem, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, and Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Duke Children's Hospital, Durham, North Carolina Yvan Vandenplas, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Academic Children's Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Jon A. Vanderhoof, M.D. Professor and Director, Joint Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska W. A. Walker, M.D. Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Chief, Combined Program in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, MassGeneral Hospital and Children's Hospital John Angus Walker-Smith, M.D.(Sydney), F.R.C.P., F.R.A.C.P., F.R.C.H.C.H. Emeritus Professor, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, University of London, London, England Harland S. Winter, M.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Harvard Medical School, and Mass-General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts Rosemary J. Young, B.S.N., M.S. Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Donna K. Zeiter, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, and Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut