An Internist's Illustrated Guide to Gastrointestinal Surgery

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Clinical & internal medicine b

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Wordery

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Humana press

An Internist's Illustrated Guide to Gastrointestinal Surgery : Humana Press : 9781588290236 : 1588290239 : 05 Jun 2003 : Few clinical disciplines have been transformed so dramatically by advancements in science and technology as gastrointestinal surgery. To begin with, modern ph- macology has virtually eliminated some kinds of surgery altogether. If one were to take a peek at a typical operating room schedule in a busy hospital of the 1960s, gastrectomies of one kind or another would have constituted a large block of the major surgeries. The advent of effective H2-histamine receptor antagonists and, more + + recently, the H ,K -ATPase (proton pump) inhibitors led to a precipitous decline in those procedures such that they are rarely performed today. Exciting new approaches to treating inflammatory bowel diseases and their complications?such as fistulas? with anticytokine therapy may one day have a similarly profound effect on surgery for this condition as well. Beyond pharmaceutics, ad

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