Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review

Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review, Sixth Edition, has been thoroughly revised to review the core essential knowledge in gastroenterology, hepatology, and relevant related areas of radiology, pathology, endoscopy, and nutrition for physicians, trainees, gastroenterology fellows in training, medical residents, medical students, gastrointestinal assistants, nurses, allied health care personnel, and other persons caring for patients. This edition has been edited by a new team of Mayo Clinic gastroenterologists and hepatologists, under the stewardship of Dr. Stephen C. Hauser, the editor-in-chief of the previous fifth edition. The faculty who authored this edition are all Mayo Clinic physicians who spend their time caring for patients and teaching in an academic medical center. Accordingly, the emphasis of this edition is on clinical knowledge to enhance patient management. Case-based presentations and numerous board examination-type, single best-answer questions with annotated answers facilitate self-testing and studying. New to This Edition · New chapters on complications after Roux-en-Y surgery and endoscopy for the gastroenterology board examination · Features such as key facts and key definitions are included in each chapter · More figures and tables to support the text

Editor-in-Chief Stephen C. Hauser, MD, is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. He graduated from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. After a fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, he was a faculty member there for many years and taught at Harvard Medical School. Since 1998 he has been at Mayo Clinic, and he is a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and an Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. He retired in 2014. Seth R. Sweetser, MD Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, MayoClinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Michael D. Leise, MD Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Karthik Ravi, MD Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science David H. Bruining, MD Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science