Handbook of Liver Disease (4th Edition)

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 gastroenterologists, hepatologists, internists, family practitioners, trainees, and others who diagnose and manage patients with liver disorders.

Key Features

• 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.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table of Contents

1. Foreword
2. Assessment of Liver Function and Diagnostic Studies
3. Acute Liver Failure
4. Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E
5. Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D
6. Hepatitis C
7. Hepatitis Caused by Other Viruses
8. Autoimmune Hepatitis
9. Alcoholic Liver Disease
10. Fatty Liver and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
11. Drug-Induced and Toxic Liver Disease
12. Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
13. Portal Hypertension and Gastrointestinal Bleeding
14. Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
15. Hepatorenal Syndrome
16. Hepatic Encephalopathy
17. Primary Biliary Cholangitis
18. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
19. Hemochromatosis
20. Wilson Disease and Related Disorders
21. Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and Other Metabolic Liver Diseases
22. Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Other Vascular Disorders
23. The Liver in Heart Failure
24. The Liver in Pregnancy
25. The Liver in Systemic Disease
26. Pediatric Liver Disease
27. Liver Disease in the Elderly
28. Hepatobiliary Complications of HIV
29. Granulomatous Liver Disease
30. Hepatic Tumors
31. Hepatic Abscesses and Cysts
32. Other Infections Involving the Liver
33. Surgery in the Patient with Liver Disease and Postoperative Jaundice
34. Liver Transplantation
35. Cholelithiasis and Cholecystitis
36. Diseases of the Bile Ducts
37. Tumors of the Biliary Tract

Author Biography

Lawrence Friedman

Affiliations and Expertise
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; The Anton R. Fried, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts; Assistant Chief of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Paul Martin
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Hepatology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida