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Title Comprehensive clinical hepatology / edited by Bruce R Bacon ... [and others]
Edition Second edition
Published St Louis, Mo. : Mosby, 2005

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 W'PONDS  616.362 Bac/Cch 2006  AVAILABLE
Description 722 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
4 3/4 in
Contents 1. Anatomy / Bernard C. Portmann -- 2. Cellular biology of the normal liver / Gary Guangsheng Fan and Clifford J. Steer -- 3. Functions of the liver / Bruce A. Luxon -- 4. History and physical examination / Peter D. Howdle -- 5. Laboratory tests / Joanne C. Imperial and Emmet B. Keeffe -- 6. Jaundice / Steven D. Lidofsky -- 7. Liver biopsy / Kyle E. Brown, M. Kay Washington and Elizabeth M. Brunt -- 8. Imaging of the liver / B. Kirke Bieneman and Adrian M. Di Besceglie -- 9. Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal hemmorhage / Anastasios A. Mihas and Arun J. Sanyal -- 10. Ascites, hyponatremia, hepatorenal syndrome and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis / Andres Cardenas, Pere Gines and Vicente Arroyo -- 11. Hepatic encephalopathy / Andres T. Blei -- 12. Malnutrition in cirrhosis / Arthur J. McCullough -- 13. Associated systemic conditions / Michael A. Heneghan and James P. O'Beirne -- 14. Hepatitis A and E / Martin Togle, Maria de Medina and Eugene R. Schiff -- 15. Hepatitis B and D / Patrick Marcellin -- 16. Hepatitis C / Adrian M. Di Bisceglie -- 17. Miscellaneous infections of the liver / Rachel Baden Herman and Margaret J. Koziel -- 18. Autoimmune hepatitis / Christian P. Strassburg, Arndt Vogel and Michael P. Manns -- 19. Primary biliary cirrhosis / Raoul Poupon and Renee Eugenie Poupon -- 20. Primary sclerosing cholangitis / K. V. Narayanan Menon and Russell H. Wiesner -- 21. Alcoholic liver disease / Timothy R. Morgan and Samuel W. French -- 22. Fatty liver, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis / Brent A. Neuschwander-Tetri -- 23. Hemochromatosis / Bruce R. Bacon -- 24. Wilson disease / Peter Ferenci -- 25. The porphyrias, [alpha][subscript 1]-antitrypsin deficiency, cystic fibrosis, and other metabolic diseases of the liver / Herbert L. Bonkovsky and James H. Reichheld -- 26. Pediatric liver disease / Deirdre A. Kelly -- 27. Benign tumors of the liver / John Karani -- 28. Biliary diseases, gallstones and cystic disease / Gregory T. Everson and Fernando E. Membreno -- 29. Malignant tumors / Philip J. Johnson -- 30. Vascular diseases of the liver / Dominique-Charles Valla -- 31. Liver diseases in pregnancy / Rebecca W. Van Dyke -- 32. Drug and toxin-induced liver disease / Suzanne Norris -- 33. Acute liver failure / John G. O'Grady -- 34. The liver in systemic disease / Andrew Ross and Lawrence S. Friedman -- 35. Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension / Shiv Kumar Sarin -- 36. Hepatobiliary surgery / Andrew M. Smith and J. Michael Henderson -- 37. Indications and patient selection / John R. Lake -- 38. The transplant operation : what the hepatologist should know / Michael L. Schilsky, Milan Kinkhabwala and Jean Crawford Emond -- 39. Immunology and immunosuppression / Geoffrey W. McCaughan -- 40. Early managment / Federico G. Villamil and Andres E. Ruf -- 41. Long term management / James Neuberger -- 42. Recurrent viral hepatitis in liver transplant recipients / Scott Biggins and Norah A. Terrault
Summary This book focuses on the medical aspects of transplantation, offers an oasis of knowledge on key topics for clinical practice and examination, and discusses the newest developments in the field, including NASH and chronic viral hepatitis
Notes Previous ed.: published as by John O'Grady, John Lake and Peter Howdle. London: Mosby, 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 98 or later; MAC OS 9.1 or later; Internet Explorer 5.0 or later or Netscape 7 or later; Adobe Acrobat Reader
Subject Liver -- Diseases.
Author Bacon, Bruce R.
ISBN 0323036759