Read more
Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Hepatology will provide gastroenterology and hepatology trainees with an extremely clinical and accessible handbook covering the major liver diseases and symptoms, their diagnosis and clinical management.
Perfect as a point-of-care resource on the hospital wards and also as a refresher for board exam preparation, the focus throughout is on providing rapid reference, essential information on each disease to allow for quick, easy browsing and assimilation of the must-know information. All chapters follow a consistent template including the following features:
- 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 when diagnosing a patient
- Disease management including commonly used medications with dosages, when to perform surgery, management algorithms and how to prevent complications
- How to manage special populations, ie, in pregnancy, children and the elderly
- The very latest evidence-based results, major society guidelines (AASLD/EASL) and key external sources to consult
In addition, the book comes with a companion website housing extra features such as case studies with related questions for self-assessment, key patient advice and ICD codes. Each guide also has its own mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access to the key features wherever you may be.
If you're specialising in hepatology and require a concise, practical guide to the clinical management of liver disease, bought to you by one of world's leading hospitals, then this is the perfect book for you.
List of contents
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 Trans
About the author
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 EditorScott 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
Summary
Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Hepatology will provide gastroenterology and hepatology trainees with an extremely clinical and accessible handbook covering the major liver diseases and symptoms, their diagnosis and clinical management.
Report
"If you re specialising in hepatology and require aconcise, practical guide to the clinical management of liverdisease, bought to you by one of world s leading hospitals, thenthis is the perfect book for you." ( Kingbook73 sMedical Ebook and Video Collection , 1 September 2014)
