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Intestinale Komplikationen
Die Diagnose des toxischen Megakolons beruht zum einen auf dem Nachweis der Kolondilatation und zum anderen auf der klinischen Definition eines...
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Introduction to Outcome
This section concerns the outcomes of eating disorders. Readers will note that outcomes of anorexia nervosa by Elisabet Wentz presents a positive...
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Obesity with Eating Disorders and Bariatric Surgery
Obesity is associated with reduced health-related quality of life, medical problems, and mental disorders. This chapter focuses on the most common...
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Epidemiology of Eating Disorders in the Middle East: Egypt
Introduction The prevalence of eating disorders has been thought to be low in the Arab world, due to the alleged absence of the “thin ideal.”...
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Autism Spectrum Conditions and Eating Disorders
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition defined by difficulties in social interaction and a tendency toward restricted, inflexible, or stereotypic...
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Psychoeducation in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Psychoeducation is an essential component of evidence-based treatments for eating disorders. In the first half, this chapter provides a definition of...
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Brain Treatments and Eating Disorders
In recent years, several papers highlighted the need to design and implement neurobiologically informed treatments for eating disorders (EDs). Within...
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Feeding Difficulties in the Esophageal Atresia Patient
Feeding difficulties are prevalent in children with esophageal atresia and can last into adulthood. Feeding problems in children with esophageal...
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A Global Overview of Eating Disorders
Over the course of the past 75 years, there has been a steady increase in awareness and understanding of eating disorders. Beginning in the twentieth...
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Emotion Focused and Schema Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: The SPEAKS Approach
Anorexia Nervosa is considered difficult to treat and the authors propose greater simplification and targeting of treatment mechanisms is necessary....
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Mentalization Based Therapy for Eating Disorders
Mentalizing is an integrative mental mechanism, allowing individuals to make sense of themselves and others in terms of intentional mental states,...
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Total Neoadjuvant Therapy (TNT) in Rectal Cancer; Where Now, Where Next?
In this chapter, we summarize the key findings of pivotal RCTs on TNT for patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (LARC) and discuss future...
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The Modern Management of Haemorrhoids
Haemorrhoidal disease has been recognised and treated for millennia. An extensive portfolio of literature has built up, particularly in the last 40...
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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
This chapter provides an update on the history of “Diseases of the Colon & Rectum” since the year 2000.
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The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) is the major organization in our specialty. Its initial development and history were...
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The Research Foundation of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
This successful early history of the Research Foundation resulted from organization, energy, and fundraising, thus allowing the institution to start...
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Genetic and Environmental Aspects of Eating Disorders
In this chapter, we review the evidence for the relevance of family factors in the aetiology of eating disorder. The focus is on evidence compiled in...
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Psychological Factors in Eating Disorders
The enhanced transdiagnostic model of eating disorders (EDs) implicates a range of psychological factors as central in the onset and maintenance of a...