This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Seymour Katz, MD, is devoted to Gastroenterology. Articles in this outstanding issue include Constipation: Understanding Mechanisms and Management; Vaccination status/Prophylaxis with GI Diseases; Reflux and Acid Peptic Diseases in Elderly; Anorectal Physiology/Pathophysiology in Elderly; Endoscopic Challenges; Colorectal Cancer of Elderly; Pancreatic Disease; GI Drug Interactions; Microscopic/Collagenous Colitis; Hepatitis B and C; IBD of the Elderly; Imaging Techniques in GI Diseases of Elderly; Dysphagia/Swallowing disorders of Elderly; and Clostridium difficile infection in the elderly.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issue - p. 6 6. Preface - p. 7 7. Gastrointestinal Drug Interactions Affecting the Elderly - p. 8 8. Vaccinations in Older Adults with Gastrointestinal Diseases - p. 13 9. Reflux and Acid Peptic Diseases in the Elderly - p. 20 10. Dysphagia in the Elderly - p. 28 11. Microscopic Colitis - p. 33 12. Medical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Elderly - p. 40 13. Clostridium difficile Infection in the Elderly - p. 46 14. Anorectal Physiology and Pathophysiology in the Elderly - p. 54 15. Constipation - p. 61 16. Colorectal Cancer and the Elderly - p. 66 17. Endoscopy in the Elderly - p. 74 18. Hepatitis B and C - p. 83 19. Index - p. 93
This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Seymour Katz, MD, is devoted to Gastroenterology. Articles in this outstanding issue include Constipation: Understanding Mechanisms and Management; Vaccination status/Prophylaxis with GI Diseases; Reflux and Acid Peptic Diseases in Elderly; Anorectal Physiology/Pathophysiology in Elderly; Endoscopic Challenges; Colorectal Cancer of Elderly; Pancreatic Disease; GI Drug Interactions; Microscopic/Collagenous Colitis; Hepatitis B and C; IBD of the Elderly; Imaging Techniques in GI Diseases of Elderly; Dysphagia/Swallowing disorders of Elderly; and Clostridium difficile infection in the elderly.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issue - p. 6 6. Preface - p. 7 7. Gastrointestinal Drug Interactions Affecting the Elderly - p. 8 8. Vaccinations in Older Adults with Gastrointestinal Diseases - p. 13 9. Reflux and Acid Peptic Diseases in the Elderly - p. 20 10. Dysphagia in the Elderly - p. 28 11. Microscopic Colitis - p. 33 12. Medical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Elderly - p. 40 13. Clostridium difficile Infection in the Elderly - p. 46 14. Anorectal Physiology and Pathophysiology in the Elderly - p. 54 15. Constipation - p. 61 16. Colorectal Cancer and the Elderly - p. 66 17. Endoscopy in the Elderly - p. 74 18. Hepatitis B and C - p. 83 19. Index - p. 93
