BookTim Cross, editor.
Summary: The new edition of this pocket guide has been fully updated to cover the common manifestations of liver disease, how to treat them and when to refer patients on to specialist centers. New chapters on Acute Liver Failure, Nutrition and Congenital Heart Disease have been added to reflect the key issues in management of liver diseases. The book outlines the common clinical liver diseases such as fatty liver disease and viral hepatitis, among others, and their current up to date management. Written by experts in the field and containing figures and tables, as well as case histories and questions, this is an enjoyable and reader-friendly book for the busy physician. With its authoritative, didactic style and short chapters, it covers the common presentations and complications of liver disease, and how to deal with them. Given the increasing prevalence of liver disease in the UK and Worldwide, this is an ideal reference book for primary care physicians, doctors in specialist training, clinical nurse specialists and for gastroenterologists, who see patients with liver disease in their working lives.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Assessment of Liver Function
Chapter 2. Acute Liver Failure
Chapter 3. Drug-induced Liver Injury
Chapter 4. Liver Decompensation and Acute on Chronic Liver Failure
Chapter 5. Portal Hypertension: Varices
Chapter 6. Frailty and Sarcopenia in Cirrhosis
Chapter 7. Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Chapter 8. Chronic hepatitis B
Chapter 9. Chronic Hepatitis C
Chapter 10. Autoimmune Hepatitis and Overlap Syndromes
Chapter 11. IgG4 related hepato-pancreato-biliary disease
Chapter 12. Hereditary Haemochromatosis
Chapter 13. Pregnancy and Liver Disease
Chapter 14. The Orphan Liver Disease
Chapter 15. Fontan Associated Liver Disease (FALD)
Chapter 16. Diagnosis and Management of Hepatocellular carcinoma
Chapter 17. Liver transplantation
Chapter 18. The Hepatological Curiosities.