Tadataka Yamada & David H. Alpers 
Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology 

A Concise, Symptom-Based Textbook for Diagnosis and Decision
Making in Clinical Practice

Over the past twenty years, thousands of physicians have come to
depend on Yamada’s Textbook of Gastroenterology. Its
encyclopaedic discussion of the basic science underlying
gastrointestinal and liver diseases as well as the many diagnostic
and therapeutic modalities available to the patients who suffer
from them was–and still is–beyond compare. This new
textbook, Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology, is
designed to inform practitioners on the features of the major
clinical disorders in gastroenterology and hepatology from the
point of view of the clinician observing signs and symptoms of a
patient under care and management.

It is a practical guide to diagnosis and decision making in
clinical practice and provides a rich source of information on
diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. Covering the full
range of examinations in gastroenterology and hepatology, with
extremely timely chapters on patients with dyspepsia, eating
disorders, jaundice, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and on screening,
Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology gives you easy
access to approaches that a clinician might take to common symptoms
and signs presented by patients with such disorders. The chapters
include the epidemiology, history, signs and symptoms, diagnosis,
treatment, and prognosis of the most commonly encountered disorders
in gastroenterology and hepatology.

This textbook will be an invaluable resource whether you are a
gastroenterologist, internist, surgeon, or other clinician who sees
patients with gastrointestinal and liver disorders. It should be
kept close at hand for frequent consultation.

Про автора

Tadataka Yamada, MD is President of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation Global Health Program, where he leads the
foundation’s efforts to apply technological solutions to the
healthcare problems of the developing world. Dr. Yamada was
chairman of R&D at Glaxo Smith Kline from 2001-2006, and joined
the company’s Board in 2004. Previously, he was Chairman of
the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan
Medical School and Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan
Medical Center. He is past President of the Association of American
Physicians, past President of the American Gastroenterological
Association, Master of the American College of Physicians and a
member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of
Sciences.

David H. Alpers, MD, William B. Kountz Professor of
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of
Gastroenterology, Washington University School of Medicine, St.
Louis, Missouri, USA

Anthony N. Kalloo, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Division of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
Maryland, USA

Neil Kaplowitz, MD, Thomas H. Brem Chair, Professor of
Medicine, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases;
Director, University of Southern California Liver Disease Research
Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Chung Owyang, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, H.
Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professor and Chief, Division of
Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA

Don W. Powell, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine,
Professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology; Director, Division of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Program Director, General Clinical
Research Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,
Texas, USA