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Informationen zum Autor James Neuberger MD, is a Consultant Hepatologist and Professor of Hepatology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and Associate Medical Director at NHS Blood and Transplant. He is Editor-in-Chief of LWW's Transplantation , the journal of the Transplantation Society , and on the board of several liver and transplant journals. He has 295 articles listed on PubMed. Andrea DiMartini is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Surgery in the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh. She has over 20 years' clinical and research experience of working with transplant surgeons and physicians in the Starzl Transplantation Institute. She was awarded the 2011 Research Award by the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and has focused on the natural history and management of patients with alcohol and substance abuse. Klappentext For people with alcohol excess and liver disease, successful management must be two-fold with management of both their psychological/physical addiction to alcohol and their liver disease. Alcohol Abuse and liver disease, with its joint focus on hepatology and psychiatry, provides both hepatologists and psychiatrists of all levels with a practical, concise and didactic guide to the investigation and clinical management of those with alcohol-related problems. Edited by a practicing hepatologist in the UK and a practising specialist in psychiatry/substance abuse in the US, it covers areas such as: - Risk factors for alcoholic liver disease - Interaction of alcohol with other co-morbidities - Clinical assessment of alcohol intake - Detoxification and management of withdrawal - Psychotherapeutic and pharmaceutical interventions - Treatment of liver disease Key points, management diagrams and high-quality images are all be supported by the very latest in clinical guidelines from the major hepatology and psychiatry societies such as the APA, EPA, AASLD and EASL. With increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary speciality care in this area, this is the ideal tool to consult in order to provide the best care possible care for what are very challenging patients to manage. Zusammenfassung Alcoholics with liver disease represent some of the most challenging patients to treat. With a joint hepatology/psychiatry focus! leading experts offer practical! clinical guidance on how best to deliver first-class management and outstanding patient care. . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors vii Preface xi 1 Epidemiology of alcohol use 1 Ian Gilmore and William Gilmore 2 Epidemiology of alcohol?]related liver disease 11 Ed Britton and Martin Lombard 3 Alcoholism: diagnosis and natural history in the context of medical disease 23 Thomas P. Beresford Narin Wongngamnit and Benjamin A. Temple 4 Alcohol and other substance misuse 35 John B. Saunders 5 Risk factors for alcohol?]related liver disease 47 Stuart Kendrick and Chris Day 6 Mechanisms of alcohol toxicity 55 Guruprasad P. Aithal and Jane I. Grove 7 Extrahepatic manifestations of alcohol excess 65 Karl?]Heinz Schulz Sandra van Eckert and Jens Reimer 8 Patterns of alcohol?]associated liver damage 79 Peter Hayes and Michael Williams 9 Cofactors and alcohol?]related liver disease 87 John G. O'Grady 10 Impact of alcohol and liver disease on prescribing 91 Richard Parker and Amanda Smith 11 Psychiatric examination of liver transplant patients with alcohol use disorders 99 Robert M. Weinrieb and Omair Abbasi 12 Abnormal liver tests in the context of alcohol excess 109 James Ferguson 13 Biochemical determination of alcohol consumption 113 Friedrich Martin Wurst Natas...
