Full Description
In this issue of Clinics in Liver Disease, guest editor Dr. Robert S. Brown, Jr. brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease. Challenges encountered with ALD include delayed diagnosis, nutritional deficiencies, management of complications, mental health and stigma, and compliance issues. Research is ongoing to improve the health of these patients, including pharmacologic advances and microbiota transplantation. This issue provides the latest research with the goal of improving outcomes.
Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including alcohol use disorder: pharmacotherapy and counseling; ALD: spectrum of disease, natural history, outcomes; disease-modulating agents in ALD and cirrhosis; health care disparities in management of ALD; how to maximize post-transplant outcomes in ALD; and more
Provides in-depth clinical reviews on alcohol-associated liver disease, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews
Contents
Alcohol Use Disorder: Natural History, Definitions, and Stigma
Managing Alcohol Use Disorder in Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Spectrum of Disease, Natural History, and Outcomes
Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Novel Insights into Mechanism
Medical Treatments and Outcomes in Acute Alcohol-Related Hepatitis
Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis: New and Experimental Medications
Liver Failure from Alcohol Takes on Several Forms: Decompensated Cirrhosis, Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure, and Alcohol-Related Hepatitis
Disease Modulating Agents in Cirrhosis
Nonhepatic Manifestations of Alcohol Use Disorder and Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
Impact of Alcohol Use on Nonalcohol-Related Liver Diseases
Metabolic and Alcohol-Associated: Diagnosis and Management
Disparities in Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
Transplant Selection: Disease Severity and Psychosocial Evaluation
Post Liver Transplant Management and Outcomes in Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
