Nutrition in Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases : Special Topic Issue: Digestive Diseases 2003, Vol. 21, No. 3

Contents......Page 4 Editorial......Page 5 What We Have Learned about Cachexia in Gastrointestinal Cancer......Page 7 Nutritional Support in Acute Pancreatitis......Page 23 Nutrition and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Its Relation to Pathophysiology, Outcome and Therapy......Page 29 Factors Enhancing Intestinal Adaptation after Bowel Compensation......Page 37 Helicobacter pylori Infection, Vitamin B[sub(12)] and Homocysteine. A Review......Page 46 Prevalence of Malnutrition in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Impact of Underlying Disease......Page 54 Sugar Intake, Taste Changes and Dental Health in Crohn's Disease......Page 61 Serum Mineral Levels in Children with Intestinal Parasitic Infection......Page 67 Impact of Body Mass Index on Fasting Blood Glucose Concentration among Helicobacter pylori Carriers......Page 71 Selenium Is Depleted in Crohn's Disease on Enteral Nutrition......Page 75 L-Carnitine in the Treatment of Mild or Moderate Hepatic Encephalopathy......Page 80 Fructose Breath Hydrogen Test–Is It Really a Harmless Diagnostic Procedure?......Page 85 Screening for Iron Overload in the Turkish Population......Page 88 Author Index and Subject Index......Page 95 A complete state-of-the-art manual on nutritional support for ICU patients, the present book, written by internationally renowned specialists, addresses fundamental aspects of the pathophysiological response to injury as well as practical issues of nutritional care.