Hepatology

This book will be an affordable, highly practical handbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when managing patients presenting with possible or overt liver disease. It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residents who have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim to be a specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide that provides key clinical information on each area of hepatology in an accessible form. Extracting relevant material from large reference textbooks can be very time consuming and for this reason, information in this handbook will be presented succinctly in a style suitable for quick reference and easy understanding. The chief emphasis will be on the clinical assessment and management of these patients, and all the major areas of liver disease will be covered, from liver cirrhosis to viral hepatitis, to autoimmune liver failure. Chapters will use a variety of structural features and colour coded boxes to increase the accessibility for residents. These include: key points/take-home points, case history, practice points and management algorithm/flow-charts. Each chapter will also contain sample multiple choice questions that the reader will be able to test themselves on. CONTENTS 1 Clinical Assessment of the Adult Patient with Possible Liver Disease: History and Physical (Eberhard L. Renner) 2 Initial Diagnosis, Workup and Assessment of Severity of Liver Disease in Adults (Scott K. Fung and Vicky Ng) 3 Pediatric Liver Disease: An Approach to Diagnosis and Assessment of Severity (Binita M. Kamath and Vicky L. Ng) 4 Natural History of the Cirrhotic Patient (Jordan Feld) 5 Management of Complications of Portal Hypertension in Adults and Children: Variceal Hemorrhage (E. Jenny Heathcote, Simon Ling and Binita M. Kamath) 6 Management of Ascites (David H.K. Wong and Vicky Ng) 7 Benign and Malignant Tumours of the Liver in Adults (Morris Sherman) 8 Chronic Portosystemic Encephalopathy and its Management (Leslie B. Lilly and Binita M. Kamath) 9 Indications for Liver Transplantation in Adults and Children (Nazia Selzner and Vicky L. Ng) 10 Management of Fulminant Hepatic Failure (Leslie B. Lilly) 11 Management of the Complications of Liver Transplantation (Eberhard L. Renner and Eve A. Roberts) 12 Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E and Others (Hemant A Shah and Eve A. Roberts) 13 Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis B (Jordan. J. Feld) 14 Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Chronic Hepatitis C (Eberhard L. Renner and Eve A. Roberts) 15 Liver Disease in the Alcoholic (Nazia Selzner) 16 Drug-induced Liver Disease (Leslie B. Lilly) 17 Obesity and its Hepatic Complications in Adults and Children (E. Jenny Heathcote and Eve A. Roberts) 18 HIV-associated Liver Diseases (David H.K. Wong) 19 Autoimmune Hepatitis in Adults and Children (Gideon M. Hirschfield) 20 Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease and its Management in Adults and Children (Gideon M. Hirschfield and Binita M. Kamath) 21 Vascular Diseases of the Liver (Jordan J. Feld) 22 Approach to Metabolic and Storage Diseases (Hemant A. Shah and Eve A. Roberts) 23 Wilson Disease: When Should You Think of Wilson disease? (Eve A. Roberts and Gideon Hirschfield) 24 Liver Disease in Pregnant Women (E. Jenny Heathcote) 25 Cystic Disease of the Liver (Morris Sherman) 26 An Internist’s Approach to Radiologic Examination of the Liver (Anthony E. Hanbidge and Korosh Khalili)