Description
Well-organized and vibrantly illustrated throughout, Handbook of Liver Disease is a comprehensive yet concise handbook providing authoritative guidance on key clinical issues in liver disease. The quick-reference outline format ensures that you'll find answers when you need them, and cover-to-cover updates keep you abreast of the recent rapid changes in the field. Written by leading international experts in hepatology, this reference is ideal for hepatologists, gastroenterologists, internists, family practitioners, trainees, and others who diagnose and manage patients with liver disorders.- Uses a highly templated outline format, key points in each chapter, alert symbols, and highlighted review points to provide a "just the facts" approach to daily clinical questions on liver disease.- Features expanded hepatitis chapters, including completely updated coverage of new, safe, and effective oral regimens for the treatment of hepatitis C.- Provides completely updated coverage of: alcoholic liver disease * autoimmune hepatitis * portal hypertension * primary biliary cholangitis * hepatic tumors * cirrhosis * nonalcoholic liver disease * liver transplantation * and more.- Includes the latest information on adolescents with liver disease moving into adult care.- Covers the revised criteria for prioritizing liver transplantation using the MELDNa score, new options for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, and improved management of hepatorenal syndrome.
Table of Contents
Foreword1. Assessment of Liver Function and Diagnostic Studies2. Acute Liver Failure3. Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E4. Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D5. Hepatitis C6. Hepatitis Caused by Other Viruses7. Autoimmune Hepatitis8. Alcoholic Liver Disease9. Fatty Liver and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis10. Drug-Induced and Toxic Liver Disease11. Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension12. Portal Hypertension and Gastrointestinal Bleeding13. Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis14. Hepatorenal Syndrome15. Hepatic Encephalopathy16. Primary Biliary Cholangitis17. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis18. Hemochromatosis19. Wilson Disease and Related Disorders20. Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and Other Metabolic Liver Diseases21. Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Other Vascular Disorders22. The Liver in Heart Failure23. The Liver in Pregnancy24. The Liver in Systemic Disease25. Pediatric Liver Disease26. Liver Disease in the Elderly27. Hepatobiliary Complications of HIV28. Granulomatous Liver Disease29. Hepatic Tumors30. Hepatic Abscesses and Cysts31. Other Infections Involving the Liver32. Surgery in the Patient with Liver Disease and Postoperative Jaundice33. Liver Transplantation34. Cholelithiasis and Cholecystitis35. Diseases of the Bile Ducts36. Tumors of the Biliary Tract
