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Chronic Abdominal Pain

An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management

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Editors:
  1. Leonardo Kapural

    1. Medical Director, Carolinas Pain Institute and Clinical Research Center, Professor of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA

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  • A comprehensive overview of chronic abdominal pain characteristics and mechanisms
  • Features state-of- the-art interventional and non-interventional therapeutic approaches
  • Authored by a team of world-renowned physicians and researchers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Etiology and Mechanisms of Chronic Abdominal Pain

    • Jaime Belkind-Gerson, Braden Kuo
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Epidemiology of Chronic Abdominal Pain

    • Reda Tolba, Joshua Shroll, Abdul Kanu, Maged K. Rizk
    Pages 13-24

  4. Establishing Diagnosis of Chronic Abdominal Pain: Gastroenterologist View

    • Amit Bhatt, Tyler Stevens
    Pages 25-32

  5. Establishing Diagnosis of Chronic Abdominal Pain: Pain Medicine view

    • I. Elias Veizi, Marisa Wynne, Salim M. Hayek
    Pages 33-43

  6. Lessons Learned from Visceral Sensory Stimulation: Implications for Treatment of Chronic Abdominal Pain

    • Søren Schou Olesen, Anne Estrup Olesen, Jens Brøndum Frøkjaer, Kasper Grosen, Asbjørn Mohr Drewes
    Pages 45-58

  7. Abdominal Pain in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

    • Roy Dekel, Douglas A. Drossman, Ami D. Sperber
    Pages 59-67

  8. Gastroparesis: Pathophysiology of Chronic Abdominal Pain and Current Treatment

    • Marcum Gillis, Kenneth L. Koch
    Pages 69-75

  9. Chronic Pain Due to Postsurgical Intra-abdominal Adhesions: Therapeutic Options

    • Jose De Andres, Luciano Perotti, Stefano Palmisani, Vicente Luis Villanueva Perez, Juan Marcos Asensio-Samper, Gustavo Fabregat
    Pages 77-87

  10. Chronic Pancreatitis With or Without Acute Exacerbations: Novel Options for Pain Control

    • Martine Puylaert
    Pages 89-102

  11. Chronic Abdominal Pain of Gynecologic Causes: Diagnosis and Treatment

    • Miya P. Yamamoto, Jorge F. Carillo, Fred M. Howard
    Pages 103-113

  12. Pediatric Chronic Abdominal Pain: Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

    • Dawn A. Sparks, Monica P. Garin-Laflam, Joseph P. Cravero
    Pages 115-124

  13. Interventional Treatment of Chronic Abdominal Pain in Children

    • Ravi Shah, Santhanam Suresh
    Pages 125-128

  14. Cancer-Related Abdominal Pain

    • Thomas Chai, J. Gabriel Tsang, Brian M. Bruel
    Pages 129-134

  15. Opioids in Abdominal Pain

    • Genaro J. Gutierrez, Justin Rodante, Mehul J. Desai
    Pages 135-142

  16. Sympathetic Blocks for Chronic Abdominal Pain

    • Robert Bolash, Bruce Vrooman
    Pages 143-152

  17. Radiofrequency and Neurolysis for the Treatment of Chronic Visceral Abdominal Pain

    • Rajiv K. Shah, Amitabh Gulati
    Pages 153-161

  18. Regional Anesthesia for Abdominal/Truncal Pain

    • James Crews, Daryl Steven Henshaw
    Pages 163-188

  19. Chronic Abdominal Wall Pain: Diagnosis and Interventional Treatment

    • Samer Narouze
    Pages 189-194

  20. Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Abdominal Pain

    • Leonardo Kapural
    Pages 195-200
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About this book

Chronic Abdominal Pain is a comprehensive resource focused on the management of chronic abdominal pain. Chapters begin with an overview of pain generation, adaptive mechanisms and various diagnostic approaches. A complete range of novel, conservative, minimally invasive and surgical therapeutic options and their proper selection are then discussed along with evidence-based and practical clinical aspects of patient care. Authored by a team of world-renowned physicians and researchers, this definitive guide provides novel algorithms for contemporary treatment of chronic abdominal pain, giving pain medicine clinicians and practitioners the knowledge needed to assess and treat patients with abdominal pain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical Director, Carolinas Pain Institute and Clinical Research Center, Professor of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA

    Leonardo Kapural

About the editor

Leonardo Kapural, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Anesthesiology,

Wake Forest University, School of Medicine

Carolinas Pain Institute and Clinical Research Center

Winston-Salem, NC

USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chronic Abdominal Pain

  • Book Subtitle: An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management

  • Editors: Leonardo Kapural

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1992-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1991-8

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5255-7

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1992-5

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Gastroenterology, Urology, Gynecology

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