Maternal liver disease
By: [edited by] Jamal A. Ibdah
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781587066573
Subjects: Liver Diseases; Pregnancy Complications
Description: "Pregnancy is a very exciting time, but can be challenging to both the pregnant patient and the caring physician when complicated by a disorder, considering the impact on the health of both the mother and the fetus. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to- date review of liver disorders during pregnancy that will benefit both health care providers and researchers. Maternal liver disease represents a single source that contains detailed knowledge of clinical manifestations of maternal liver disorders, approach to diagnosis and management, clinical outcomes, as well as a detailed description of the latest scientific discoveries and research findings on pathogenesis of liver disease in pregnancy. Some of these disorders, until recently, have been considered mysterious and many of the recommendations, based on recent discoveries, can be lifesaving to the pregnant woman and her fetus. Maternal liver disease provides a novel contribution to the field through its comprehensive clinical and scientific focused approach"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The liver in normal pregnancy / Yannick Bacq; title: Spectrum of maternal liver disease / Hazem T. Hammad, R. Sidney G. Smith, and Jamal A. Ibdah; title: Viral hepatitis in pregnancy / Dennis Ng and Murtaza Arif; title: Hyperemesis gravidarum and maternal liver disease / William M. Outlaw, Jamal A. Ibdah, and Kenneth L. Koch; title: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy / Paul A. Dawson and Girish Mishra; title: Preeclampsia-induced liver disease and HELLP syndrome / Dilip Bearelly ... [et al.]; title: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy / Abhishek Choudhary ... [et al.]; title: Pregnancy and liver transplantation / Ghassan M. Hammoud, Abhishek Choudhary, and Jamal A. Ibdah.