This market-leading book, with comprehensive coverage of the entire spectrum of liver disease in children, returns with 12 brand new chapters covering key areas in liver transplantation, viral hepatitis, and liver disease in infancy.
Authored by the world’s leading hepatologists and pediatricians and expertly edited by Deirdre Kelly, it covers the entire topic from pathology to diagnosis and clinical management, and in all stages of childhood from the unborn baby through to infancy, and from childhood to the transition into adolescence.
New to this edition:
12 brand new chapters
Key points box at the beginning of every chapter
New section on the transition of pediatric liver disease to adult life
Reference to EASL, AASLD and ESPGHAN guidelines throughout
Contents
Chapter 1: Structure, Function and Repair of the Liver
Christoph Leiskau, Ulrich Baumann
Chapter 2: Liver pathology in children
Rachel M Brown
Chapter 3: Liver immunology and its application in diseases
Hannah Jeffery, Katie Stirling, Ye Htun Oo
Chapter 4: Molecular Genetics and Liver Disease
Paul Gissen
Chapter 5: Useful Investigations in the Assessment of Liver Disease
Way S Lee, Deirdre A. Kelly
Chapter 6: The Role of the Multidisciplinary Team
Lindsay Hogg, Kelly Guthrie, Sara Clarke, Jacqueline Blyth
Chapter 7: The Effects of Liver Disease in pregnancy on Mother and Child
Jane Hartley, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall
Chapter 8: The jaundiced baby
Jane Hartley
Chapter 9: The Acutely Ill Baby
Patrick J. McKiernan
Chapter 10: Neonatal hemochromatosis
Amy G. Feldman, Estella M. Alonso, Peter F. Whitington
Chapter 11: Autoimmune Liver Disease
Giorgina Mieli-Vergani, Diego Vergani
Chapter 12: Drug Induced Liver Disease
Noelle H. Ebel, Karen F. Murray
Chapter 13: Viral Hepatitis
Mona Abdel- Hady, William Tong
Chapter 14: Congenital and Structural Abnormalities of the Liver
Larissa Kerecuk, Patrick McKiernan
Chapter 15: Non-Alcoholic Steato-Hepatitis in Childhood
Claudia Della Corte, Antonella Mosca, Vincenzina Lucidi, Arianna Alterio, Valerio Nobili
Chapter 16: Hepatobiliary Disease in Cystic Fibrosis
Carla Colombo, Dominique Debray
Chapter 17: Chapter Non-viral infectious liver disease
Samantha Lissauer, Shiva Ramroop
Chapter 18: Acute Liver Failure
Estella M. Alonso, Robert H. Squires
Chapter 19: Metabolic Liver Disease in the Infant and Older Child
Anupam Chakrapani, Paul Gissen
Chapter 20: Disorders of Copper Metabolism
Thomas Müller, Stuart Tanner
Chapter 21: Complications and Management of Chronic Liver Disease
Noelle H. Ebel, Simon P. Horslen
Chapter 22: The Liver in Systemic Illness
Sue Beath
Chapter 23: Skin Disorders in Liver Disease
Indra D.M. van Mourik, Malobi Ogboli, Michelle Thomson
Chapter 24: Dental Care of Children with Liver Disease
Marie Therese Hosey, Victoria Clark
Chapter 25: Biliary Atresia and other Causes of Surgical Jaundice in Infancy
Erica Makin, Mark Davenport
Chapter 26: Liver Trauma in Children
AB (Sebastian) van As, Alastair JW Millar
Chapter 27: Surgical Management of Portal Hypertension
Jean de Ville de Goyet
Chapter 28: Primary Hepatic Tumours
Bruce Morland, Khalid Sharif
Chapter 29:Disorders of the Pancreas
Heiko Witt, Narendra Battula, Darius Mirza
Chapter 30: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Paediatric Liver Disease
P Bromley, J Bennett, R Neal
Chapter 31: Liver Transplantation
Deirdre A. Kelly, Paolo Muiesan
Chapter 32: Small-Bowel Transplantation in Children
Girish Gupte, George Mazariegos
Chapter 33: Combined Liver and Kidney Transplantation
Thamara Perera, David V Milford
Chapter 34: Liver Disease in the Developing World
Vidyut Bhatia, Wafa Al Qabandi, Liz Goddard, Quak Senghock, Anupam Sibal
Chapter 35: Transition to adult care
Jo Wray, Jessica Wright
Chapter 36: Paediatric Liver Disease surviving to Adult Life
James Ferguson
