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What is Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders about?

Gastrointestinal and liver disorders are common conditions that result in pediatric patients seeking medical attention. Gastrointestinal disease can present as a wide variety of symptoms including abdominal pain, constipation, feeding intolerance, vomiting, and malnutrition. Liver disease can appear as jaundice, coagulopathy, malnutrition and altered mental status. With the wide variety of presenting symptoms and diagnoses that can be seen with gastrointestinal and liver disease, it is vital for providers caring for children to be able to identify early signs of disease and when escalation of care is needed. Gastrointestinal disease is commonly multifactorial, frequently following the Biopsychosocial Model. Conditions like functional abdominal pain, functional nausea, and functional constipation closely highlight the strong interaction between genetic predisposition, mental health, and social factors. This section reviews the background and evaluation of the most common and critical gastrointestinal and liver disease found in children. ## Constipation Chronic constipation is the most common gastrointestinal condition in children, reported as having a prevalence of 0.7-29.6% of the

Author

Mary Boruta; John Lyles; Shannon Morgan; Alisha Mavis

Publisher

Elsevier Science & Technology Books

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780128188736