Hepatology [[electronic resource] ] : diagnosis and clinical management / / edited by E. Jenny Heathcote

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (466 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.3/62; 616.362
• Soggetto topico: Liver - Diseases; Hepatology
• Altri autori: HeathcoteJenny
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Hepatology: Diagnosis and Clinical Management; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: Clinical assessment of the adult patient with possible liver disease: history and physical examination; CHAPTER 2: Initial diagnosis, workup, and assessment of severity of liver disease in adults; CHAPTER 3: Pediatric liver disease: an approach to diagnosis and assessment of severity; CHAPTER 4: Natural history of the cirrhotic patient; CHAPTER 5: Management of complications of portal hypertension in adults and children: variceal hemorrhage; CHAPTER 6: Management of ascites ; CHAPTER 7: Masses in the liverCHAPTER 8: Chronic portosystemic encephalopathy and its management; CHAPTER 9: Indications for liver transplantation in adults and children; CHAPTER 10: Management of fulminant hepatic failure; CHAPTER 11: Management of the complications of liver transplantation; CHAPTER 12: Acute viral hepatitis in adults and children: hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and others; CHAPTER 13: Chronic viral hepatitis in adults and children: hepatitis B; CHAPTER 14: Chronic viral hepatitis in adults and children: hepatitis C; CHAPTER 15: Liver disease due to alcohol ; CHAPTER 16: Drug-induced liver diseaseCHAPTER 17: Obesity and its hepatic complications in adults and children; CHAPTER 18: HIV-associated liver diseases; CHAPTER 19: Autoimmune hepatitis in adults and children; CHAPTER 20: Chronic cholestatic liver disease and its management in adults and children; CHAPTER 21: Vascular diseases of the liver; CHAPTER 22: Approach to metabolic and storage diseases; CHAPTER 23: Wilson disease: when should you think of Wilson disease?; CHAPTER 24: Liver disease in pregnant women; CHAPTER 25: Cystic disease of the liver ; CHAPTER 26: An internist's approach to radiologic examination of the liverIndex; Color Plates
• Sommario/riassunto: This book will be an affordable, highly practical handbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when managing patients presenting with possible or overt liver disease. It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residents who have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim to be a specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide that provides key clinical information on each area of hepatology in an accessible form. Extracting relevant material from large reference textbo
• Titolo autorizzato: Hepatology
• ISBN: 1-283-60415-9; 9786613916600; 1-118-31485-9; 1-118-31484-0; 1-118-31496-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830849603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II