Abdominal Trauma, Peritoneum, and Retroperitoneum

Over the last two decades, there have been major advances in imaging, endoscopy, and laparoscopy in the field of gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. GI surgery is the newest sub-specialty branch of general surgery, where enhanced expertise and high-volume centres have made a difference to the outcomes of complex operations. Surgeons can now perform difficult procedures with low morbidity and mortality rates, and greatly improved overall results. This volume provides detailed and up-to-date information on diseases of the mesentery, omentum, peritoneum, and retroperitoneum as well as abdominal trauma. As an area of surgery that may often be neglected in traditional teaching, with limited resources to aid clinical decision making, diseases and trauma in this area can lead to situations where even the most experienced surgeon may feel challenged. Managing patients with these diseases successfully warrants a comprehensive knowledge of their anatomy and physiology as well as the pathology involved. The book provides comprehensive coverage of the different conditions and traumas, and includes a final chapter covering abdominal surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Written and edited by international experts in the field, this book will be a valuable resource for abdominal, peritoneum and retroperitoneum surgeons and trainees, general surgeons, researchers, and medical students.

1 - Basic Considerations in Abdominal Trauma
2 - Trauma to the Hollow Organs of the Gastro-intestinal Tract
3 - Injury to Liver, Pancreas, Spleen, Gallbladder and Bile Ducts
4 - Retroperitoneal Haematoma and Injury
5 - Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
6 - Acute Abdomen
7 - Ventral Hernia
8 - Surgical Access to the Abdomen
9 - Neoplasms of the Abdominal Wall
10 - Peritoneum: Anatomy, Diseases and Ascites
11 - Peritoneal Malignancy
12 - Current Concepts in Intra-abdominal Adhesions
13 - Retroperitoneum: Anatomy and Operative Approaches including Minimal Access
14 - Tumours of the Retroperitoneum and Management of Retroperitoneal Sarcomas
15 - Anatomy, Diseases, and Surgical Applications of Omentum
16 - Mesentery: Anatomy, Diseases and Internal Hernias
17 - Abdominal Tuberculosis
18 - HIV Disease and the Abdominal Surgeon
19 - Surgery in the Time of a Pandemic: Perils, Readiness and Remedies

Dr Aditya Nanavati completed his Surgical Residency in Mumbai, India. He then went on to pursue his Fellowship training in Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina, USA. He returned to Mumbai in 2018 and since then has been working as a Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon at Jupiter Hospital. He has experience performing liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantations as well as complex hepatobiliary surgeries. He has a special interests in enhanced recovery after surgery and re-operative surgery. He has several international and national publications in the above fields to his name. His interests also include teaching and the training of young surgeons to be proficient at complex hepatobiliary surgeries. Professor Sanjay Nagral is Director of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, India. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the GS Medical College, Pilkhuwa, India, and fellowships at the Kings College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the Inlaks Foundation Fellowship in 1995. He worked at the KEM Hospital Mumbai as Associate Professor of Surgery until 1999. From 2012 to 2017 he was Joint Secretary of the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee, Mumbai, which regulates cadaveric transplant. He was nominated to the Executive Council of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, an international organization working on transplantation ethics, and has been nominated as its co-chair for the years 2021/22. He has authored over 100 journal and textbook publications, is publisher and member of the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and chairperson of the Forum for Medical Ethics