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Handbook of Liver Disease

  • 3rd Edition - July 15, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Lawrence S. Friedman, Emmet B. Keeffe
  • Language: English

The Handbook of Liver Disease, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Lawrence S. Friedman and Emmet B. Keeffe, gives you quick reference to the most recent diagnostic and treatment options for pa… Read more

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The Handbook of Liver Disease, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Lawrence S. Friedman and Emmet B. Keeffe, gives you quick reference to the most recent diagnostic and treatment options for patients with liver disorders. International authorities share the latest clinical findings and procedures to help you expertly manage illnesses like hepatitis B and C and hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as apply new practices like genetic testing, noninvasive imaging techniques, and so much more. Quickly access updated information on all aspects of liver disease including new drugs, therapy trials, and post-transplant conditions with this full-color, templated edition–in print and online at www.expertconsult.com.

Key features

  • Expedite diagnostic and therapeutic decision making with a highly templated outline format that uses full-color illustrations, tables, algorithms and figures, key point boxes, and alert symbols to present information at a glance.

Readership

Hepatologists

Gastroenterologists

Table of contents

1. Assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies

2. Acute liver failure

3. Acute viral hepatitis

4. Chronic viral hepatitis

5. Autoimmune hepatitis

6. Alcoholic liver disease

7. Fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

8. Drug-induced and toxic liver disease

9. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension: an overview

10. Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal bleeding

11. Ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

12. Hepatorenal syndrome

13. Hepatic encephalopathy

14. Primary biliary cirrhosis

15. Primary sclerosing cholangitis

16. Hemochromatosis

17. Wilson's disease and related disorders

18. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and other metabolic liver diseases

19. Budd-Chiari syndrome and other vascular disorders

20. The liver in heart failure

21. The liver in pregnancy

22. The liver in systemic disease

23. Pediatric liver disease

24. Liver disease in the elderly

25. HIV and the liver

26. Granulomatous liver disease

27. Hepatic tumours

28. Hepatic abscesses and cysts

29. Other infections involving the liver

30. Surgery in the patient with liver disease and postoperative jaundice

31. Liver transplantation

32. Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis

33. Diseases of the bile ducts

34. Tumors of the biliary tract

Review quotes

"Handbook of Liver Disease guarantees quick access and easy-to-find answers for any practitioner who encounters patients with liver disease thanks to the templated format. This handbook will serve as a useful and valuable reference for busy practicing gastroenterologists and hepatologists, internists, family practitioners, other specialists, and trainees in gastroenterology and hepatology or internal medicine. The addition of review questions will be of particular use to readers preparing for the certification and recertification examinations in gastroenterology and hepatology." - SirReadALot.org

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 6, 2014
  • Language: English

About the authors

LF

Lawrence S. Friedman

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; The Anton R. Fried, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts; Assistant Chief of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

EK

Emmet B. Keeffe

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Chief of Hepatology, Co-Director, Liver Transplant Program, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

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