Diseases of the Liver and Bile Ducts

A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Authoritative and practical, this important new book not only spells out the advantages and limitations of the latest diagnostic tests, but also provides numerous algorithms for evaluating patients and treating the liver problems commonly encountered by primary care physicians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-10-11
Mått178 x 254 x 25 mm
Vikt858 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCurrent Clinical Practice
Antal sidor442
FörlagHumana Press Inc.
ISBN9781461272939

Tillhör följande kategorier

Gastrointestinal och kolorektal kirurgi inom Medicin
Hepatologi inom Medicin
Gastroenterologi inom Medicin

I. General Clinical Features of Liver Disease.- 1 Signs and Symptoms of Liver Disease.- II. Approach to Screening for Liver Disease.- 2 Routine Screening Blood Tests for Liver Disease.- 3 Specific Diagnostic Blood Tests.- 4 True Liver Function Tests.- III. Imaging.- 5 Noninvasive Techniques for the Evaluation of Liver Diseases.- 6 Radiologic Interventions for Liver Disease.- IV. Hepatocellular Diseases.- 7 Hepatic Steatosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis.- 8 Self-Limited Viral Hepatitis: A, E, CMV, EBV.- 9 Acute and Chronic Hepatitis B and D.- 10 Hepatitis C and G.- 11 Autoimmune Hepatitis.- 12 Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- 13 Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity.- 14 Bilirubin Metabolism and Hyperbilirubinemia.- V. Biliary Diseases.- 15 Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.- 16 Extrahepatic Cholestasis: Stones and Malignancies.- 17 Cholecystitis.- VI. Adult Genetic Liver Diseases.- 18 Genetic Hemochromatosis.- 19 Disorders of Porphyrin Metabolism.- 20 Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency.- VII. Pediatric Liver Diseases.- 21 Wilson’s Disease.- 22 Neonatal Jaundice: When Is it Physiologic?.- 23 Manifestations of Inherited Disorders of Bilirubin Glucuronidation During Infancy and Childhood.- 24 Neonatal Cholestasis.- 25 Other Common/Treatable Childhood Genetic Liver Disorders.- VIII. Women and Liver Diseases.- 26 Pregnancy and Liver Disease.- IX. Special Management Considerations.- 27 Ascites/Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis.- 28 Hepatic Encephalopathy.- 29 Portal Hypertension/GI Bleeding.- 30 Acute Hepatic Failure.

"It is a well-constructed manual for medical students and general practitioners, presenting only the material that is necessary for diagnosis and treatment of patients with common liver and biliary disorders. The editors have selected leading experts from various medical centers to write the specific chapters of the book, thereby assuring high quality...All parts are well illustrated with figures, tables, schemes, and other information sources. Each part ends with a summary and in many cases with an additional conclusion...Diseases of the Liver and Bile Ducts is highly recommended for medical libraries, primary care physicians of internal medicine, medical students and head nurses."-Michael Barany, Phd, review in E-Streams