Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Coeliac Disease in Children [Hardcover]

Section I: Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- 1 Postnatal immunomorphology of the gut.- 2 Genetics of inflammatory bowel disease.- 3 Special aspects of inflammatory bowel disease in children.- 4 Evaluation of endoscopic findings in Crohns disease of childhood and adolescence.- 5 Diagnostic imaging in inflammatory bowel disease in paediatric patients.- 6 Lymphocyte subsets in Crohns disease.- 7 Medical treatment of chronic inflammatory bowel disease.- 8 Toxic effect of sulphasalazine on prepubertal testes.- 9 Indications for surgery in inflammatory bowel disease.- 10 Surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: ulcerative colitis.- 11 Factors that influence the postoperative recurrence of Crohns disease in childhood.- 12 Psyche and inflammatory bowel disease.- Section II: Coeliac Disease.- 13 Management of coeliac disease in children: a personal view.- 14 Grain prolamins: why immunogenic, how toxic?.- 15 Class II molecules in coeliac disease.- 16 The diagnostic significance of gliadin and endomysium antibodies in childhood coeliac disease.- 17 Concluding remarks.