Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System continues to be the pre-eminent textbook of choice for trainee as well as practising gastroenterologists who want a clear and lucid description of the very latest issues in this growing discipline. Every chapter has been updated with the most recent advances in the study and control of hepatitis, in its various forms. Technical and therapeutic advances have appeared in all areas of hepatology, in particular portal hypertension, liver tumours, genetic diseases and imaging, both diagnostic and therapeutic. All are brought up-to-date in the very readable style characteristic of this standard text.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Preface to the Eleventh Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
1. Anatomy and Function.
2. Assessment of Liver Function.
3. Biopsy of the Liver.
4. The Haematology of Liver Disease.
5. Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
6. Hepato-cellular Failure.
7. Hepatic Encephalopathy.
8. Acute Liver Failure.
9. Ascites.
10. The Portal Venous System and Portal Hypertension.
11. The Hepatic Artery and Hepatic Veins: the Liver in Circulatory Failure.
12. Jaundice.
13. Cholestasis.
14. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.
15. Sclerosing Cholangitis.
16. Virus Hepatitis: General Features, Hepatitis A. Hepatitis E and Other Viruses.
17. Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatitis Delta Virus.
18. Hepatitis C Virus.
19. Chronic Hepatitis: General Features, and Autoimmune Chronic Disease, .
20. Drugs and the Liver.
21. Hepatic Cirrhosis.
22. Alcohol and the Liver.
23. Iron Overload States.
24. Wilson’s Disease.
25. Nutritional and Metabolic Liver Diseases.
26. The Liver in Infancy and Childhood.
27. The Liver in Pregnancy.
28. The Liver in Systemic Disease Granulomas and Hepatic Trauma.
29. The Liver in Infections.
30. Nodules and Benign Liver Lesions.
31. Malignant Liver Tumours.
32. Imaging of the Biliary Tract: Interventional Radiology and Endoscopy.
33. Cysts and Congenital Biliary Abnormalities.
34. Gallstones and Inflammatory Gallbladder Diseases.
35. Benign Stricture of the Bible Ducts.
36. Diseases of the Ampulla of Vater and Pancreas.
37. Tumours of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts.
35. Hepatic Transplantation.
Index.
Sobre o autor
Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock FRCP FRCPE FRS HFRSE FMGA FCRGA was a British physician and medical educator who is considered the major 20th century contributor to the field of hepatology.
James Dooley is the author of Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System, 11th Edition, published by Wiley.
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