Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders in Women’s Health A Point of Care Clinical Guide

This guide provides the answers to patient questions that are frequently posed to practitioners who care for pregnant and non-pregnant women with GI and liver disorders. The first part of the text outlines gender-based differences in GI disorders, including GERD, liver disease, pancreatic disease, IBD, and IBS. The second part of the text reviews common GI and liver diseases that occur during pregnancy, while guiding clinicians through various diagnostic and therapeutic/management approaches. GI and liver diseases that are covered in this section include nausea and vomiting, viral hepatitis, and pregnancy-specific liver disorders such as preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, and intrahepatic cholestasis. The text concludes with a chapter on the safety of GI procedures for the pregnant patient.

Written by experts in the field, Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders in Women’s Health: A Point of Care Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for the busy clinician who needs the best evidence-based answers to patient questions at their fingertips.

I Gender-Based Differences in Gastrointestinal Disorders

1 Differential Diagnoses between Primary Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Secondary to a Primary Gastrointestinal Disorder

Jennifer Heinemann, Courtney Barry

2 Functional Swallowing Disorders

Livia A. Guadagnoli, John E. Pandolfino, Rena Yadlapati 

3 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Rena Yadlapati, Abraham Khan

4 Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome: Does Gender Matter? How Does It Affect the Health of Women?

Vishnu Charan Suresh Kumar, Thangam Venkatesan

5 Idiopathic Gastroparesis

Dariush Shahsavari, Henry P. Parkman

6 Autoimmune Hepatitis

Margarita N. German, Adnan Said

7 Diseases of the Liver: Primary Biliary Cholangitis

8 Diseases of the Liver: Liver Masses (Hemangioma, Focal Nodular Hyperplasia, Hepatic Adenoma)

Parul D. Agarwal, Adnan Said

9 Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms in Women: Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms, Serous Cystadenomas, and Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms

Harkirat Singh, Asif Khalid

10 Obesity and Bariatric Surgery

Semeret Munie, Tammy Kindel 

11 Celiac Disease

Marium Khan, Dan Stein

12 Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Fertility, Menses, and Contraception

Reezwana Chowdhury, Sunanda V. Kane

13 Irritable Bowel Syndrome 

Shanti Eswaran, Laura O'Donohue

14 Chronic Constipation

Arnold Wald

15 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Women

Katherine Hu, Carrie Y. Peterson

II Gastrointestinal/Liver Diseases During Pregnancy 

16 Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum 

Sumona Saha

17 Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis B, D and E Viruses 

Aiman Ghufran

18 Pregnancy-Specific Liver Disorders: Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome

Ashina Singh

 

Archita Desai, Deeksha Seth

20 Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy

Sheila Eswaran, Dharani Guttikonda, Nancy Reau

21 Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pregnancy

22 Gallstone and Biliary Disease

Gillian L. Fell, David Brooks  

23 Safety of Procedures During Pregnancy

Bahar Adeli, Erkanda Ikonomi, Asyia Ahmad

Poonam Beniwal-Patel, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Milwaukee, WI 

USA

Reza Shaker, MD

Joseph E. Geenen Professor and Chief

Director, Digestive Disease Center

Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Milwaukee, WI

USA