Hepatology

Herausgegeben von Ahmad, Jawad; Friedman, Scott L.; Dancygier, Henryk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Hepatology will providegastroenterology and hepatology trainees with an extremely clinicaland accessible handbook covering the major liver diseases andsymptoms, their diagnosis and clinicalmanagement.

Perfect as a point-of-care resource on the hospital wardsand also as a refresher for board exam preparation, thefocus throughout is on providing rapid reference, essentialinformation on each disease to allow for quick, easy browsing andassimilation of the must-know information. All chaptersfollow a consistent template including the followingfeatures:

- An opening bottom-line/key points section
- Classification, pathogenesis and prevention of disease
- Evidence-based diagnosis, including relevant algorithms,laboratory and imaging tests, and potential pitfalls whendiagnosing a patient
- Disease management including commonly used medications withdosages, when to perform surgery, management algorithms and howto prevent complications
- How to manage special populations, ie, in pregnancy, children andthe elderly
- The very latest evidence-based results, major societyguidelines (AASLD/EASL) and key external sources to consult

In addition, the book comes with a companion websitehousing extra features such as case studieswith related questions for self-assessment, keypatient advice and ICD codes. Each guide also has itsown mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access tothe key features wherever you may be.

If you re specialising in hepatology and require a concise,practical guide to the clinical management of liverdisease, bought to you by one of world s leadinghospitals, then this is the perfect book for you.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1010g
• ISBN-13: 9781118517345
• ISBN-10: 1118517342
• Artikelnr.: 39178860

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jawad Ahmad MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA Scott L. Friedman MD, Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Dean for Therapeutic Discovery, Chief, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA Henryk Dancygier MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Chair, Departments of Medicine II and IV, Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA Series Editor Scott L. Friedman MD, Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Dean for Therapeutic Discovery, Chief, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Series foreword, xxx Preface Website Part 1: HEPATOLOGY 1
Approach to the Patient with Abnormal Liver Tests Charissa Y. Chang 2
Approach to the Patient with Jaundice Jawad Ahmad 3 Drug Induced Liver
Injury (DILI) Ponni V. Perumalswami 4 Hepatitis A (and E) Ponni V.
Perumalswami 5 Hepatitis B and D Elizabeth A. Kula, Donna Fanelli, &
Douglas Dieterich 6 Hepatitis C: Diagnosis, Management and Treatment Alicia
C Stivala, Deepti Dronamraju, Douglas Dieterich 7 Coinfections: HIV/HBV/HCV
Marie-Louise C. Vachon, Alicia C Stivala and Douglas T. Dieterich 8 Hepatic
Abscess Lawrence U. Liu 9 Biliary Infections Gopi Patel 10 Alcoholic
Hepatitis Scott L. Friedman 11 Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Charissa Y
Chang 12 Autoimmune Hepatitis and Overlap Syndromes Joseph A Odin 13
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Nancy Bach and Joseph A Odin 14 Primary
Sclerosing Cholangitis Nancy Bach, Joseph A Odin 15 Hereditary
Hemochromatosis Jawad Ahmad 16 Wilson disease Joseph A. Odin, Nancy Bach,
Vivek Kesar 17 Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Joseph A Odin and Vivek Kesar
18 Portal Hypertensive Bleeding Jawad Ahmad 19 Ascites Henryk Dancygier 20
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Henryk Dancygier 21 Hepatic
Encephalopathy Priya Grewal 22 Hepatorenal Syndrome Henryk Dancygier 23
Hepatopulmonary syndrome Jawad Ahmad 24 Portopulmonary hypertension Jawad
Ahmad 25 Pregnancy related liver disease Priya Grewal 26 Acute Liver
Failure Meena B. Bansal 27 Budd-Chiari Syndrome Leona Kim-Schluger 28
Portal Vein Thrombosis Leona Kim-Schluger 29 Non-Cirrhotic Portal
Hypertension M. Isabel Fiel and Thomas D. Schiano 30 Liver Lesions James S.
Park 31 Cystic Lesions of the Liver Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Juan P Rocca,
Marcelo E Facciuto 32 Surgery in Patients with Liver Disease Jawad Ahmad 33
Nutrition in Liver Disease James S. Park Part 2: PEDIATRICS 34 Diagnosis
and Management of Acute Liver Failure - A pediatric perspective Tamir Miloh
35 Liver function tests in childhood Nanda Kerkar 36 Approach to Jaundice
in Infancy Jaime Chu 37 Management of end-stage liver disease in children
Ronen Arnon 38 Liver transplantation: pediatric perspective Nanda Kerkar
Part 3: TRANSPLANT 39 Evaluation of Patients for Liver Transplant Lawrence
U. Liu 40 Live Donor Transplant Evaluation Lawrence U. Liu 41 Surgical
evaluation for Liver Transplant Hiroshi Sogawa 42 Post-operative Care of
the Liver Transplant Patient Alan Contreras-Saldivar 43 Diagnostic approach
to abnormal liver tests following liver transplantation Charissa Y. Chang
44 Acute Rejection Costica Aloman 45 Chronic Rejection Costica Aloman 46
Primary non-function Eric G. Davis and Sander S. Florman 47 Ischemia
reperfusion injury after liver transplantation Matthew Y. Suh and Juan P.
Rocca 48 Vascular Complications of Liver Transplantation Eric G. Davis and
Sander S. Florman 49 Biliary Complications After Liver Transplantation
Marie E. Le and Marcelo Facciuto 50 Approach to Prophylaxis and Management
of Infections after Liver Transplant Shirish Huprikar 51 Malignancy after
Liver Transplant Lawrence U. Liu 52 Hepatitis C Post Liver Transplantation
Thomas D. Schiano and M. Isabel Fiel 53 Recurrent Disease Post-Liver
Transplantation: Autoimmune Diseases, Hepatitis B and NASH Thomas D.
Schiano 54 Health Maintenance after Liver Transplant Lawrence U. Liu Index