The Clinician's Guide to Liver Disease

K. Rajender Reddy MD; Thomas Faust MD

ISBN 10 1-55642-675-5

ISBN 13 978-1-55642-675-9

376 pp Soft Cover

Pub. Date: 2006

Order# 76755

$71.95

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The Clinician's Guide to Liver Disease is a user-friendly quick reference for the management of acute and chronic liver disease for the gastroenterologist.

Drs. K. Rajender Reddy and Thomas Faust provide a broad overview of all clinically relevant topics in the realm of liver disease, ranging from evaluation of the liver patient to liver transplantation. Many of today's leading gastroenterology professionals have contributed their expertise to The Clinician's Guide to Liver Disease, allowing the reader to quickly develop an individualized care plan.

Part of The Clinician's Guide to GI Series, this essential text perfectly compliments the standard resources on liver disease. The user-friendly outline format allows for quick access to the topic at hand.

Chapter Topics Include:

  • Acute and chronic viral hepatitis
  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • Autoimmune hepatitis
  • Cholestatic liver diseases (PBC and PSC)
  • Drug hepatoxicity
  • Metabolic liver disease
  • Liver disorders in pregnancy
  • Liver transplantation

With algorithms, tables, and figures, The Clinician's Guide to Liver Disease is an up-to-date and ideal text for all gastroenterologists, hepatologists, primary care physicians, gastroenterology fellows, medical residents, and medical students.

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Partial Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: Evaluation of the Liver Patient
    Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD and Lawrence S. Friedman, MD
  • Chapter 2: Cirrhosis and its Complications
    Jayanta Choudhury, MD and Arun J. Sanyal, MD
  • Chapter 3: Acute and Chronic Viral Hepatitis
    Barbara A. Piasecki, MD, MSCE
  • Chapter 4: Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing CholangitisMical S. Campbell, MD and Thomas Faust, MD
  • Chapter 5: Autoimmune Hepatitis
    Stanley Martin Cohen, MD
  • Chapter 6: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
    John C. Sun, MD and Anne Burke, MD
  • Chapter 7: Metabolic Liver Disease
    Kirti Shetty, MD
  • Chapter 8: Vascular Diseases Involving the Liver
    Richard K. Gilroy, MBBS, FRACP and Michael F. Sorrell, MD
  • Chapter 9: Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Liver
    Arie Regev, MD
  • Chapter 10: Liver Disease in Pregnancy
    Rena Desai Callahan, MD and K. Rajender Reddy,...

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