Heathcote Hepatology

Diagnosis and Clinical Management
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-31484-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, E-Book

This book will be an affordable, highly practicalhandbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees ingastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants touse as a quick reference when managing patients presentingwith possible or overt liver disease.
It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residentswho have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim tobe a specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide thatprovides key clinical information on each area of hepatologyin an accessible form. Extracting relevant material from largereference textbooks can be very time consuming and for this reason,information in this handbook will be presented succinctly in astyle suitable for quick reference and easy understanding.
The chief emphasis will be on the clinical assessment andmanagement of these patients, and all the major areas of liverdisease will be covered, from liver cirrhosis to viral hepatitis,to autoimmune liver failure.
Chapters will use a variety of structural features and colourcoded boxes to increase the accessibility for residents. Theseinclude: key points/take-home points, case history, practice pointsand management algorithm/flow-charts. Each chapter will alsocontain sample multiple choice questions that the reader will beable to test themselves on.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heathcote, E. Jenny

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors, ix
Foreword, xii
Preface, xiv
Acknowledgements, xv
1 Clinical assessment of the adult patient with possible liverdisease: history and physical examination, 1
Eberhard L. Renner
2 Initial diagnosis, workup, and assessment of severity of liverdisease in adults, 13
Scott K. Fung
3 Pediatric liver disease: an approach to diagnosis andassessment 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 adultsand 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 inadults and children, 297
Gideon M. Hirschfi eld 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 ofthe liver, 396
Anthony E. Hanbidge and Korosh Khalili
Index, 413