Upper Gastrointestinal Tract, Biliary and Pancreatic Disorders - Clinical Updates in Women's Health Care

This monograph is designed to enable physicians to:

• Recognise the signs and symptoms of common upper gastrointestinal tract, biliary, and pancreatic disorders and diseases.
• Understand evaluation and management guidelines for primary management and co-management with a gastroenterologist.
• Understand common endoscopic procedures and their application in women with upper gastrointestinal tract, biliary, and pancreatic symptoms and disorders.
• Develop sound clinical judgement to evaluate, treat, or refer women with challenging clinical problems.

Clinical Updates in Women's Health Care is designed to educate obstetrician-gynaecologists in primary and preventive care issues that relate to office practice. Each peer-reviewed monograph provides a clinically oriented overview of a topic that includes the following features:

• Basic science update of gender-specific information on pathophysiology
• Case Reports of challenging clinical situations
• Counselling points to establish a dialogue with patients
• Complementary and alternative medicine highlights
• Concerns for older women
• Resources for referral, information, and support
• References cited and graded according to the strength of the evidence

Published quarterly, each monograph, which is approximately 80 pages, addresses an issue critical to women:

• How might a disorder present differently in women than in men?
• Why are women at risk for certain conditions?
• What pathophysiologic aspects of disorders are unique in women?
• What type of interventions are appropriate?
• Self-assessment questions are included at the end of each monograph.