Francis A Farraye

Questions & Answers About Crohn's Disease

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or have a loved one with Crohn's disease, this book offers help. Questions amp Answers About Crohn's Disease, Third Edition, provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their families. This easy-to-read book is a concise guide to diagnosis, treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Written by a world-class medical expert on the topic, Questions amp Answers About Crohn's Disease, Third Edition, is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of Crohn's disease.

Gut health shortcuts and long-term whole-body research shed light on inflammatory bowel disease through every type of IBD, life phase, and related disease, including cancer. Reduce your symptoms and improve your quality of life by taking two expert Mayo Clinic doctors' easy-to-digest advice. What to eat, when to eat it, why it helps, and when it's time to call a doctor round out everything you need to know to take control...for life. Tired of making your gastric struggles the center of conversation? Every conversation. Ready to wrangle your IBD symptoms and corral your pain and worry so that they take their proper place in your life? Abdominal pain, anemia, bleeding, cramps, diarrhea, malnutrition, and weight loss have run your life far too long. Whether you've been diagnosed with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, collagenous colitis, lymphocytic colitis, or any other of the half-dozen ailments associated with IBD, this book helps you chart a path back to health. More than 3 million Americans suffer from chronic, incurable IBD, affecting Americans ages three to 80-plus. You don't have to be among them any longer. Newly revised and updated, Mayo Clinic Drs. Farraye (New England Crohn's and Colitis Foundation lifetime achievement award recipient) and Kane (former Chair of the National Patient Education Committee of NECCF) pull from clinical trials and tap the latest data to offer clear advice and compassionate solutions. You'll learn the science of its underlying causes and how it strikes, how to change your lifestyle to improve your health, what medications to discuss with your doctor, alternative therapies to consider, surprising ways the disease can affect other parts of the body, the cancer connection, when to have surgery, and how the condition can affect fertility, pregnancy, and children.

Newly updated with the latest information on inflammatory bowel disease, Curbside Consultation in IBD: 49 Clinical Questions, Third Edition contains brief, practical, and evidence-based answers to the most frequently asked questions that are posed during a “curbside consultation” between surgical colleagues. Drs. David T. Rubin, Sonia Friedman, and Francis A. Farraye are joined by an expert group of contributors, offering advice, preferences, and opinions on tough clinical questions commonly associated with IBD. With a unique Q&A format, this text provides quick access to current information. Numerous images, diagrams, and references are included to better illustrate IBD. Some of the questions answered inside the Third Edition include:What are the new approaches to using and minimizing steroids? What is the evolving role of calcineurin inhibitors in IBD? Where should anti-IL-23 therapy be placed in the therapeutic algorithm for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis? What should the clinicians and patients know about biosimilars? What are JAK inhibitors? And when should they be used in IBD? What is the approach to loss of response to biological therapy? How should we screen our patients with IBD for depression and anxiety? With information basic enough for trainees and expert practical advice that even high-volume clinicians will appreciate, Curbside Consultation in IBD: 49 Clinical Questions, Third Edition is a must-have. Gastroenterologists, surgeons, IBD nurses and advanced practice providers, and medical and surgical trainees at all levels will benefit from the user-friendly format and up-to-date advice for complicated cases.

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or a loved one of someone with ulcerative colitis, this book offers help. Questions amp Answers About Ulcerative Colitis, Second Edition provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. This easy-to-read book is a comprehensive guide to treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, employment and insurance issues, and much more. Written by a world-class medical expert on the topic, Questions amp Answers About Ulcerative Colitis is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of ulcerative colitis. Questions amp Answers About Ulcerative Colitis, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, employment and insurance issues, and much more. Written by a world-class medical expert on the topic, Questions amp Answers About Ulcerative Colitis, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, employment and insurance issues, and much more.

Whether you’re a newly diagnosed patient or have a loved one with Crohn’s disease, this book offers help. 20 Questions & Answers About Crohn’s Disease, Second Edition, provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their families. This easy-to-read book is a concise guide to diagnosis, treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Written by a world-class medical expert on the topic, 20 Questions & Answers About Crohn’s Disease, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of Crohn’s disease.

Empower Yourself! Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or have a loved one with Crohn's disease, this book offers help. Questions & Answers About Crohn's Disease provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their families. This easy-to-read book is a concise guide to diagnosis, treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support and much more. Written by a world-class medical expert on the topic, Questions & Answers About Crohn's Disease is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physican and emotional turmoil of Crohn's disease.

GI Emergencies: A Quick Reference Guide contains practical information regarding the diagnosis and management of common gastrointestinal emergencies. Each chapter is written by a fellow or resident with an experienced clinician. This offers the perspective of a trainee, who has many basic questions about how to handle a given situation, combined with the experience of a seasoned practitioner who can guide the work-up and treatment of each clinical case. The result is a reference that provides the clinical acumen of a trained gastroenterologist in an easy-to-use format for physicians to approach GI emergencies efficiently and thoroughly. The dual-perspectives blend perfectly together to create a practical, evidence-based read for the learning physician. In GI Emergencies: A Quick Reference Guide, Dr. Robert C. Lowe and Dr. Francis A. Farraye, along with 20 contributors, help physicians deal with problems as they occur in a “real-time” format. Some Topics Include: • Evaluation and management of acute liver failure • Caustic ingestions, foreign bodies, and food impaction • Nonvariceal upper GI hemorrhage • Acute pancreatitis • Complications of endoscopy The case-based format is less formal than that of a typical textbook, making it enjoyable without losing the educational value and evidence-based recommendations needed to provide excellent patient care. With succinct key teaching points, GI Emergencies: A Quick Reference Guide assists physicians who are training interns, residents, and medical students in training, making it an all-around reference for those in the gastroenterology field.

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or a loved one of someone with ulcerative colitis, this book offers help. Questions amp Answers About Ulcerative Colitis provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. This easy-to-read book is a comprehensive guide to treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, employment and insurance issues, and much more. Written by a world-class medical expert on the topic, Questions amp Answers About Ulcerative Colitis is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of ulcerative colitis.