Cirrhosis: A Practical Guide to Management

Cirrhosis: A practical guide to management provides gastroenterologists and hepatologists with the very best evidence–based practice in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of liver cirrhosis and its many complications. Designed to offer practical guidance at all times, chapters include diagnostic/management algorithms, key points, and other pedagogic features.

The books is divided into two parts: a diagnosis and pathophysiology section and a management 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

Perfect for both specialists and specialty trainees, emphasis throughout is on providing clear, clinical management guidance to enable doctors to manage their patients quicker and more effectively. It is an invaluable guide to what is an increasingly common condition.

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

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.