Pocket Guide to Advanced Endoscopy in Gastroenterology

The book offers a comprehensive and didactic overview of both advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy imaging techniques, with a clinical impact correspondent in major gastroenterology, hepatology, and pancreatology diseases.

It includes state-of-the art techniques like endoscopic ultrasound and confocal laser endomicroscopy, as well as endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography.

Divided into 9 main chapters, the book covers the examination techniques, the sedation and monitoring, and investigates the clinical impact of endoscopy. Specific chapters are dedicated to the upper gastrointestinal tract, the lower gastrointestinal tract, to pancreatico-biliary diseases and to liver diseases.

Enriched by more than 400 original images based on 25 years' experience in the field of advanced endoscopy imaging, and accompanied by carefully selected videos, this volume will be a reference guide for residents and trainees in gastroenterology, hepatology, pancreatology,and surgery, with emphasis on endoscopy techniques.

Adrian Săftoiu is a Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Elias Emergency University Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Romania. He is a Visiting Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA and a Clinical Visiting Professor at Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, Denmark.

He obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Craiova, Romania. He trained at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, Romania (Internal medicine and Gastroenterology) and completed his training in Gastroenterology at the Department of Medicine V, University Hospital Aarhus, Denmark, at the Gentofte University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark, and at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

He was a member of the Research Committee of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy from 2011-2020 (ESGE). He is Past President of the European Federation of Societies of Ultrasonography in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB), and President of the Romanian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SRED). He serves as the President of the Publication Committee of the World Federation Societies of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB).