**Meet the editor**

Dr. Oliviu Pascu graduated at the Faculty of General Medicine, Institute of Medicine &Pharmacy in 1963. He became professor of internal medicine and gastroenterology at the IIIrd Medical Clinic, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1990. From 1990 until 2000 he was dean (Faculty of Medicine) and then rector of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in

Cluj. Until 2009 he acted as president of the Romanian Society of Digestive Endoscopy and is presently honorary president). His first monograph on digestive endoscopy was published in Romania in 1982., while his first textbook on gastroenterology 1996-1997. He has practiced digestive endoscopy since 1969 and introduced hemostasis and polypectomy in Romania (1975). More than 150 of his articles have been published in Romanian and international medical journals. Dr. Pascu is member of the Academy of Medical Sciences Romania and many Romanian and European scientific societies.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 General Aspects 1** 

Chapter 1 **Challenges of Gastrointestinal** 

Arjuna P. De Silva

Nwokediuko Sylvester Chuks

Chapter 2 **Evidence Based Guidelines for Preparation** 

Mitrut Paul, Mitrut Anca Oana,

Chapter 4 **Sedation for Pediatric Endoscopies 45**

Chapter 5 **Intravenous Sedation for Pediatric** 

Chapter 6 **Endoscopic Aspects of Eosinophilic** 

Somchai Amornyotin

**Part 2 The Esophagus 61** 

**Endoscopy in Resource-Poor Countries 3**

Chapter 3 **Sedation Related to Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 23**

Vidyut Bhatia and Narendra Kumar Arora

Streba Liliana, Calina Daniela and Salplahta Daniel

**Esophagitis: From Diagnosis to Therapy 63** Alfredo J. Lucendo and Susana Jiménez-Contreras

Emma Andreasson and Anna Casselbrant

Ota M., Nakamura T. and Yamamoto M.

Chapter 8 **Combination Therapy After EMR/ESD for Esophageal** 

Chapter 7 **Expression of Reactive Oxygen Species in Reflux Disease 79**

**Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Submucosal Invasion 91**

**Before Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (UGIE) 15**

**Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in a Developing Country 53**
