The clinician's guide to liver disease
By: [edited by] K. Rajender Reddy, Thomas Faust.
Contributors: Reddy, K. Rajender.; Faust, Thomas.
Publisher: SLACK Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Thorofare, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781556426759
Subjects: Liver -- Diseases.; Liver Diseases.
Description: A user-friendly, quick reference for the management of acute and chronic liver disease for the gastroenterologist. The authors provide a broad overview of all clinically relevant topics in the realm of liver disease, ranging from evaluation of the liver patient to liver transplantation. Bulleted outline format allows for readily available access to the topic at hand.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evaluation of the liver patient / Wolfram Goessling and Lawrence S. Friedman; title: Cirrhosis and its complications / Jayanta Choudhury and Arun J. Sanyal; title: Acute and chronic viral hepatitis / Barbara A. Piasecki; title: Primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis / Mical S. Campbell and Thomas Faust; title: Autoimmune hepatitis / Stanley Martin Cohen; title: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease / John C. Sun and Anne Burke; title: Metabolic liver disease / Kirti Shetty; title: Vascular diseases involving the liver / Richard K. Gilroy and Michael F. Sorrell; title: Benign and malignant tumors of the liver / Arie Regev; title: Liver disease in pregnancy / Rena Desai Callahan and K. Rajender Reddy; title: Postoperative jaundice / Jayanta Choudhury and Arun J. Sanyal; title: Nonviral infections of the liver / Mical S. Campbell and Thomas Faust; title: Hepatopulmonary syndrome / Josh Levitsky and Timothy McCashland; title: Portopulmonary hypertension / Josh Levitsky and Timothy McCashland; title: Liver transplantation / Steven-Huy B. Han, Tram T. Tran, and Paul Martin; title: Drug hepatoxicity / Raúl J. Andrade, Javier Salmerón, and M. Isabel Lucena.