Fatty Liver Disease,An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Together with Consulting Editor Dr. Alan Buchman, Drs. Arun J. Sanyal and Mohammad Siddiqui have put together a comprehensive issue devoted to fatty liver disease for the gastroenterologist. Expert authors have contributed clinical review articles on the following topics: Burden of disease due to NAFLD; Genetic risk factors and disease modifiers of NASH; How to identify the patient with NASH who will progress to cirrhosis; Similarities and Differences between cirrhosis due to NASH versus other etiologies; Impications of NASH as the etiology of end stage liver disease prior to and after liver transplantation; Why do lifestyle recommendations fail in most patients; Rational nutritional therapeutics for NAFLD; Recruitment and retention strategies in long-term trials for NASH; Managing extrahepatic comorbidities in NAFLD; The current status of noninvasive tools for the assessment of NAFLD; and Pharmacological Treatment strategies for NASH. Readers will come away with the information they need to improve outcomes in patients with fatty liver disease.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mohammad Shadab Siddiqui (Editor), Arun J Sanyal (Editor), Arun J. Sanyal (Editor), Sanyal Arun J. (Editor), Mohammad Shadab Siddiqui (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2020
• EAN: 9780323682039
• ISBN: 978-0-323-68203-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Gastroenterology, NASH; fatty liver disease; NAFLD