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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136419303321

Titolo

Clinical dilemmas in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease / / edited by Roger Williams, Simon D. Taylor-Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016

ISBN

1-118-92497-5

1-118-92493-2

1-118-92495-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 p.)

Collana

Clinical Dilemmas (UK)

Disciplina

616.3/62

Soggetti

Fatty liver

Liver - Diseases

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hype or harm from fatty liver disease? / Stephen H Caldwell and Curt Argo -- Worldwide problem / Geoffrey Farrell and Philip Newsome -- Is insulin resistance the key motive for NAFLD? / Desmond Johnston -- Progression to cirrhosis is more likely in children with NAFLD? / Anil Dhawan -- NAFLD as cause of cryptogenic cirrhosis? / Jay Lefkowitch -- Is NAFLD different in absence of metabolic syndrome? / Yusuf Yilmaz -- Occurrence of noncirrhotic HCC in NAFLD / Stephen Harrison and Dawn Torres -- Fibrosis progression molecular pathways all important? / Anna-Mae Diehl and Dr Wing-Kin Syn -- Can fatty liver of NAFLD be distinguished from that of alcoholic liver disease? / David Kleiner and Elizabeth Brunt -- Are inflammasomes and intestinal microbiota relevant in disease progression to NASH? / M. Bilal Siddiqui, M. Shadab Siddiqui and Arun Sanyal -- Can genetic influence in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease be ignored? / Quentin Anstee -- Is there a mechanistic link between hepatic steatosis and cardiac rather than liver events? / Soo Lim -- Is there a best method for diagnosis of NAFLD? / Vlad Ratziu -- Choice of non-invasive blood tests and FibroScan / Massimo Pinzani and Manolis Tsocatzis -- Are the guidelines AASLD, IASL, EASL and BSG of help? / Jean-Francois Dufour -- How to choose



from different imaging modalities and screening techniques / Hero Hussain -- Are the pros outweighed by the cons of obtaining a liver biopsy? / Simon Taylor-Robinson and Jeremy Cobbold -- Screening for NAFLD in high risk population / Nader Lessan -- Balancing calorie restriction, exercise and weight reduction / Nicholas Finer -- Should physicians be prescribing, or patients self-medicating with Orlistat, vitamin E, vitamin D, insulin antagonist, Trental and coffee? / Brent Neuschwander-Tetri and Haripriya Maddur -- Does improvement in hepatic steatosis have a significant favourable effect on the metabolic syndrome, including diabetes? / Jukka Westerbacka -- What are the dangers as well as the true benefits of bariatric surgery? / Andrew Jenkinson -- Liver transplantation : what can it offer? / Roger Williams -- Molecular antagonists, leptin or other hormones in supplementing environmental factors? / Jeremy Tomlinson -- Use of antifibrotic agents in clinical practice / Jonathan Fallowfield -- Better understanding of early development and material influence? / Jude Oben -- Defining the role of metabolic physician / Nicholas Finer.