Visceral Abdominal Pain ― An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management

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.

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