This handbook of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatoloy and nutrition provides a concise overview of key topics in these three closely related specialties. Pocket sized, and user friendly, it aims to be a ready source for medical staff in training, as well as more experienced colleagues, and other members of multidisciplinary teams such as specialist nurses, dieticians, and pharmacists. Information is provided in the form of bullet point list and tables, with reference to key articles for further reading, in addition to useful websites and contacts.

1. Nutritional assessment and requirement 2. Breast-feeding 3. Formula and complementary feeding 4. The premature newborn 5. Necrotizing enterocolitis 6. Growth faltering (failure to thrive) 7. Iron deficiency 8. Micronutrients and minerals 9. Nutrition support teams 10. Enteral nutritional support 11. Refeeding syndrome 12. Parenteral nutrition 13. Intestinal failure 14. Home nutritional support 15. Eating disorders 16. Difficult eating behaviour in the young child 17. Food allergy 18. Carbohydrate intolerance 19. Nutritional problems in the child with neurological handicap 20. Obesity 21. Cystic fibrosis 22. Cystic fibrosis-associated liver desease 23. Vomiting 24. Acute gastroenteritis 25. Gastro-esophageal reflux 26. Helicobacter pylori infection, peptic ulceration and Meckel's diverticulum 27. Cyclical vomiting syndrome 28. Pyloric stenosis 29. Achalasia and malrotation 30. Gastrointestinal bleeding 31. Gastrointestinal polyposis 32. Chronic diarrhoea 33. Coeliac disease 34. Nutritional management of coeliac disease 35. Bacterial overgrowth 36. Acute abdominal pain 37. Recurrent abdominal pain 38. Chronic constipation 39. Hirschsprung's disease 40. Perianal disorders 41. Inflammatory bowel disease: introduction 42. Crohn's disease 43. Nutritional management of Crohn's disease 44. Ulcerative colitis 45. Eosinophilic disorders 46. The pancreas 47. Neonatal jaundice 48. Biliary atresia 49. b1-antirypsin deficiency 50. Alagille syndrome 51. Familial and inherited intrahepatic cholestatic syndromes 52. Drug-induced liver-injury 53. Autoimmune liver disease 54. Metabolic liver disease 55. Fatty liver disease in children 56. Wilson's disease 57. Hepatitis B 58. Hepatitis C 59. Bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections of the liver 60. Liver tumours 61. Complications of chronic liver disease 62. Dietary interventions in liver disease 63. Acute liver failure 64. Portal hypertension 65. Paediatric liver transplantation

John WL Puntis , Consultant Paediatrician, The Children's Centre, The General Infirmary at Leeds, UK