Cirrhosis: a practical guide to management providesgastroenterologists and hepatologists with an up-to-date clinicalguide presenting the very best evidence-based practice in thediagnosis, treatment and management of liver cirrhosis and its manycomplications. Designed to offer practical guidance at alltimes, it provides doctors with an extremely useful tool in theclinical setting, with each chapter featuring diagnostic/managementalgorithms, key points and other pedagogic features. Divided into 2 parts, a diagnosis and pathophysiology section and amanagement of complications section, key topics include: - Diagnostic laboratory tests - Diagnostic imaging modalities - Acute-on chronic liver failure - Agents and drugs to avoid - End stage liver failure: liver transplant evaluation - Hepatocellular carcinoma Aimed at the specialist, as well as the practicing trainee at thetop-end of specialty training, the emphasis throughout is onproviding optimum clinical management guidance most relevant topracticing hepatologists and gastroenterologists, and is aninvaluable guide to this increasingly common condition.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Diagnosis and Pathophysiology
1 Clinical clues to diagnosis of cirrhosis
Y.K.Chawla and Vijay Bodh
2 Diagnostic laboratory tests
Ying-Ying Yang and Han-Chieh Lin
3 Diagnostic imaging modalities
Soon Koo Baik, Moon Young Kim and Woo Kyoung Jeong
4 Histology/pathology
Valerie Paradis
5 Fibrosis and fibrogenesis
Namiki Izumi, Nobuharu Tamaki, Yasuhiro Asahina andMasayuki Kurosaki
6 Non-invasive diagnostic tests including fibroscan
Laurent Castera
7 Evaluating prognosis
Sumeet K. Asrani and Patrick S. Kamath
8 End-stage liver Failure: liver transplant evaluation
Sebastián Marciano and Adrián Gadano
Part 2: Complications of cirrhosis
9 Acute-on chronic liver failure
Danielle Adebayo, Vincenzo Morabito and Rajiv Jalan
10 Hepatocellular carcinoma
Kwang-Hyub Han and Do Young Kim
11 Hepatic encephalopathy
Piero Amodio
12 Malnutrition and nutritional support in cirrhosis
Jian-Gao Fan and Hai-Xia Cao
13 Varices, portal hypertensive gastropathy and GAVE
Isabelle Colle, Xavier Verhelst, Anja Geerts and Hans Van Vlierberghe
14 Ascites
Andrés Cárdenas, Isabel Graupera and Pere Ginès
15 Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and other infections
Thierry Gustot and Richard Moreau
16 Hepatorenal syndrome and acute kidney injury
Florence Wong
17 The hepatopulmonary syndrome
Moises Ilan Nevah R and Michael B. Fallon
18 Hyponatremia and other electrolyte/ion disorder
Salvatore Piano, Filippo Morando and Paolo Angeli
19 Portopulmonary hypertension
Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba and Michael J. Krowka
20 Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy
Hongqun Liu and Samuel S. Lee
21 Adrenal insufficiency
Emily Dannhorn and James O'Beirne
22 Coagulopathy and clotting disorders
Marco Senzolo and A.K. Burroughs
23 Agents and drugs to avoid
Felix Stickel
24 Changing outcomes with antiviral or antifibrotic therapies
Gamal Esmat and Maissa El Raziky
25 Bone Disorders
Jane Collier
26 Pruritus
Nora V. Bergasa
27 Quality of Life and Symptom Management
Ayman A. Abdo and Faisal M. Sanai
28 Special considerations in children
Alejandro Costaguta and Fernando Alvarez
Authors
Samuel S. Lee, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Calgary, Canada. Sam Lee is one of the world's leading lights on cirrhosis and is editor-in-chief of the Wiley journal Liver International, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver.
Richard Moreau, MD, Head and Director of Research at the National Institute of Health (Inserm), Paris, France.