Main description:

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.
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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 Transplantation Thomas D. Schiano and M. Isabel Fiel 53 Recurrent Disease Post-Liver Transplantation: Autoimmune Diseases, Hepatitis B and NASH Thomas D. Schiano 54 Health Maintenance after Liver Transplant Lawrence U. Liu Index