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Gastrointestinal surgery is performed for a range of benign and malignant diseases in both elective and emergency settings. This volume covers the diseases, surgery, and management of the mesentery, omentum, peritoneum, and retroperitoneum, as well as abdominal trauma.
List of contents
- Part 1: Abdominal Trauma
- 1: Rashi Jhunjhunwala, Nakul Raykar, Juan Pablo Ramos, Juan Carlos Puyana, and Vineet Kumar: Basic Considerations in Abdominal Trauma
- 2: R.B. den Boer, F. Hietbrink, R. van Hillegersberg, and J.P. Ruurda: Trauma to the Hollow Organs of the Gastro-intestinal Tract
- 3: Ahmad Mirza, Rafik Filobbos, Ambareen Kausar, and Derek A.O'Reilly: Injury to Liver, Pancreas, Spleen, Gallbladder and Bile Ducts
- 4: Pradeep Navsaria, Eduard Jonas, Andrew Nicol, and Sorin Edu: Retroperitoneal Haematoma and Injury
- 5: Pradeep Navsaria, Deidre McPherson, and Eduard Jonas: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
- 6: Ankur V. Tiwari and Sanjiv Haribhakti: Acute Abdomen
- Part 2: Abdominal Wall
- 7: Eham Arora and Eric Pauli: Ventral Hernia
- 8: Abhishek Agrawal, Shweta Mullick, and Puneet Dhar: Surgical Access to the Abdomen
- 9: Alec Anthony Winder, Emma Davies, S¿ílvia Bagüé, and Andrew Hayes: Neoplasms of the Abdominal Wall
- Part 3: Peritoneum
- 10: Nitesh Naga Balaji Pagadala and Biju Pottakkat: Peritoneum: Anatomy, Diseases and Ascites
- 11: Chintamani Godbole, Sally Hallam, Lina Antoun, and Haney Youssef: Peritoneal Malignancy
- 12: Matthew R. Bedford and Sharad Karandikar: Current Concepts in Intra-abdominal Adhesions
- Part 4: Retroperitoneum
- 13: Amitabh Yadav: Retroperitoneum: Anatomy and Operative Approaches including Minimal Access
- 14: L. Cairncross, F. Malherbe, and D. Strauss: Tumours of the Retroperitoneum and Management of Retroperitoneal Sarcomas
- Part 5: Mesentery and Omentum
- 15: Anand Narayan Singh and Peush Sahni: Anatomy, Diseases, and Surgical Applications of Omentum
- 16: Anand Bharathan, Rohini Priyanga, and Kesavan Balaraman: Mesentery: Anatomy, Diseases and Internal Hernias
- 17: M.D. Ibrarullah and V.K. Kapoor: Abdominal Tuberculosis
- 18: Elmi Muller and Adam Boutall: HIV Disease and the Abdominal Surgeon
- 19: Ambarish Satwick, Pranay Pawar, Abhishek Sharma, and Christina George: Surgery in the Time of a Pandemic: Perils, Readiness and Remedies
About the author
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
Summary
Gastrointestinal surgery is performed for a range of benign and malignant diseases in both elective and emergency settings. This volume covers the diseases, surgery, and management of the mesentery, omentum, peritoneum, and retroperitoneum, as well as abdominal trauma.
