Description
Book SynopsisThis book will be anaffordable,highly practical handbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when managingpatients presenting with possible or overt liver disease.
It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residents who have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim to be a specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide that provideskey clinical information on each area of hepatology in an accessible form. Extracting relevant material from large reference textbooks can be very time consuming and for this reason, information in this handbook will be presented succinctly in a style suitable for quick reference and easy understanding.
The chief emphasis will be on the clinical assessment and management of these patients, and all the major areas of liver disease will be covered, from liver cirrhosis to viral hepatitis, to autoimmune liver failure.
Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Foreword xii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xv
1 Clinical Assessment of the Adult Patient with Possible Liver Disease: History and Physical Examination 1
Eberhard L. Renner
2 Initial Diagnosis, Workup, and Assessment of Severity of Liver Disease in Adults 13
Scott K. Fung
3 Pediatric Liver Disease: An Approach to Diagnosis and Assessment of Severity 31
Binita M. Kamath and Vicky L. Ng
4 Natural History of the Cirrhotic Patient 45
Jordan J. Feld
5 Management of Complications of Portal Hypertension in Adults and Children: Variceal Hemorrhage 63
E. Jenny Heathcote Simon Ling and Binita M. Kamath
6 Management of Ascites 80
David K.H. Wong
7 Masses in the Liver 93
Morris Sherman
8 Chronic Portosystemic Encephalopathy and Its Management 112
Leslie B. Lilly and Binita M. Kamath
9 Indications for Liver Transplantation in Adults and Children 119
Nazia Selzner and Vicky L. Ng
10 Management of Fulminant Hepatic Failure 132
Leslie B. Lilly
11 Management of the Complications of Liver Transplantation 142
Eberhard L. Renner and Eve A. Roberts
12 Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and Others 162
Hemant A. Shah and Eve A. Roberts
13 Chronic Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis B 185
Jordan J. Feld
14 Chronic Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis C 208
Eberhard L. Renner and Eve A. Roberts
15 Liver Disease Due to Alcohol 226
Nazia Selzner
16 Drug-Induced Liver Disease 235
Leslie B. Lilly
17 Obesity and Its Hepatic Complications in Adults and Children 244
E. Jenny Heathcote and Eve A. Roberts
18 HIV-Associated Liver Diseases 263
David K.H. Wong
19 Autoimmune Hepatitis in Adults and Children 281
Gideon M. Hirschfield
20 Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease and Its Management in Adults and Children 297
Gideon M. Hirschfield and Binita M. Kamath
21 Vascular Diseases of the Liver 315
Jordan J. Feld
22 Approach to Metabolic and Storage Diseases 329
Hemant A. Shah and Eve A. Roberts
23 Wilson Disease: When Should You Think of Wilson Disease? 352
Eve A. Roberts and Gideon M. Hirschfield
24 Liver Disease in Pregnant Women 367
E. Jenny Heathcote
25 Cystic Disease of the Liver 383
Morris Sherman
26 An Internist’s Approach to Radiologic Examination of the Liver 396
Anthony E. Hanbidge and Korosh Khalili
Index 413
