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This book presents a comprehensive collection of classic cases and problem scenarios encountered as bedside case discussions during ward rounds. It facilitates the practical management of hepatic disorders. The unique aspect of hepatology involves the blend of the basic tenet of clinical medicine applied to liver disease and a multitude of interventional modalities in the management of liver, biliary, and pancreatic diseases. This book takes the reader through the process of ruling in and ruling out possibilities based on clinical data (history and examination) and then traces the logical trajectory of each case from recommended investigations to the analysis of test results and finally to making a syndromic diagnosis. By adopting an evidence-based approach, the book emphasizes analytical and need-based studies to exclude any mimics. This book helps practice hepatologists and gastroenterologists for a systematic approach towards the most common cases.
List of contents
Section I.- Approach to abnormal liver function tests.- Acute liver failure.- Clinical approach to Hepatitis B.- Practical management of Chronic Hepatitis C.- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.- Alcoholic hepatitis.- Acute on chronic liver failure.- Ascites and Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.- Renal failure in cirrhosis.- Hepatic encephalopathy.- Approach to variceal hemorrhage.- Autoimmune Hepatitis.- Primary biliary cholangitis.- Primary sclerosing cholangitis.- Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Hepatic venous outflow tract obstruction.- Sarcopenia and frailty in liver disease.- Miscellaneous Topics.- Selected topics in Transplant Hepatology.- Section II.- Choledocholithiasis and cholangitis.- Approach to biliary obstruction and evaluation of biliary stricture.- Acute pancreatitis.- Chronic Pancreatitis.
About the author
Prof. Virendra Singh is working as Professor& Head of Hepatology at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India), with more than 35 years of teaching experience. He completed his training in Gastroenterology from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India), in 1988. He has published more than 135 papers in national as well as international journals. His areas of interest include ascites, post-paracentesis circulatory dysfunction, hepatorenal syndrome, hepatic regeneration in alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis, malignant hilar biliary obstruction, biliary injuries, and gastrointestinal tuberculosis.
Dr. Akash Roy is a Senior Resident (Academic) at the Department of Hepatology, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He did his MBBS from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, and MD in Internal Medicine from NEIGRIHMS, Shillong. He has over 50 publications (national/international) andis the recipient of multiple awards in Internal Medicine and Hepatology. His areas of interest include cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, gut microbiota, and liver transplantation.
