Clinical dilemmas in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
By: [edited by] Roger Williams, Simon Taylor-Robinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118912034
Subjects: Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hype or harm from fatty liver disease? / Stephen H Caldwell and Curt Argo; title: Worldwide problem / Geoffrey Farrell and Philip Newsome; title: Is insulin resistance the key motive for NAFLD? / Desmond Johnston; title: Progression to cirrhosis is more likely in children with NAFLD? / Anil Dhawan; title: NAFLD as cause of cryptogenic cirrhosis? / Jay Lefkowitch; title: Is NAFLD different in absence of metabolic syndrome? / Yusuf Yilmaz; title: Occurrence of noncirrhotic HCC in NAFLD / Stephen Harrison and Dawn Torres; title: Fibrosis progression molecular pathways all important? / Anna-Mae Diehl and Dr Wing-Kin Syn; title: Can fatty liver of NAFLD be distinguished from that of alcoholic liver disease? / David Kleiner and Elizabeth Brunt; title: Are inflammasomes and intestinal microbiota relevant in disease progression to NASH? / M. Bilal Siddiqui, M. Shadab Siddiqui and Arun Sanyal; title: Can genetic influence in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease be ignored? / Quentin Anstee; title: Is there a mechanistic link between hepatic steatosis and cardiac rather than liver events? / Soo Lim; title: Is there a best method for diagnosis of NAFLD? / Vlad Ratziu; title: Choice of non-invasive blood tests and FibroScan / Massimo Pinzani and Manolis Tsocatzis; title: Are the guidelines AASLD, IASL, EASL and BSG of help? / Jean-Francois Dufour; title: How to choose from different imaging modalities and screening techniques / Hero Hussain; title: Are the pros outweighed by the cons of obtaining a liver biopsy? / Simon Taylor-Robinson and Jeremy Cobbold; title: Screening for NAFLD in high risk population / Nader Lessan; title: Balancing calorie restriction, exercise and weight reduction / Nicholas Finer; title: Should physicians be prescribing, or patients self-medicating with Orlistat, vitamin E, vitamin D, insulin antagonist, Trental and coffee? / Brent Neuschwander-Tetri and Haripriya Maddur; title: Does improvement in hepatic steatosis have a significant favourable effect on the metabolic syndrome, including diabetes? / Jukka Westerbacka; title: What are the dangers as well as the true benefits of bariatric surgery? / Andrew Jenkinson; title: Liver transplantation : what can it offer? / Roger Williams; title: Molecular antagonists, leptin or other hormones in supplementing environmental factors? / Jeremy Tomlinson; title: Use of antifibrotic agents in clinical practice / Jonathan Fallowfield; title: Better understanding of early development and material influence? / Jude Oben; title: Defining the role of metabolic physician / Nicholas Finer.