Cirrhosis: A Practical Guide to Management - Hardcover

Lee, Samuel S.; Moreau, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118274822 ISBN 13: 9781118274828

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

Cirrhosis: a practical guide to management provides gastroenterologists and hepatologists with an up-to-date clinical guide presenting 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, it provides doctors with an extremely useful tool in the clinical setting, with each chapter featuring diagnostic/management algorithms, key points and other pedagogic features.

Divided into 2 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

Aimed at the specialist, as well as the practicing trainee at the top-end of specialty training, the emphasis throughout is on providing optimum clinical management guidance most relevant to practicing hepatologists and gastroenterologists, and is an invaluable guide to this increasingly common condition.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118274822
• ISBN 13: 9781118274828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368