Liver Disorders A Point of Care Clinical Guide

This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-access guide not only in the diagnosis of the various types of liver disease but in the management of specific disorders, including the particular nuances of the care of the patient with liver disease.  It provides a resource to the practitioner caring for patients with liver disease for addressing everyday questions posed by patients and their families, as well as referring physicians, in a manner that can easily be conveyed. The spectrum covered includes appropriate testing and disease monitoring of patients, use of medications, supplements, alternative therapies and alcohol, operative risk assessment, implementation of health maintenance for patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, identification and management of particular complications of cirrhosis, and appropriate referral for liver transplantation, as well as management of special populations.

1. What Do Abnormal Liver Tests Mean?

Miguel Malespin and Rebecca Tsang

2. General Care of the Liver Patient

Sanjay Bhandari

3. Do I - Need a Liver Biopsy?

Kiyoko Oshima

Part 1. What to Do with Tumors in the Liver?

4. Incidental Hepatic Lesions

Syed Rizvi

5. Benign Hepatic Lesions

Syed Rizvi

6. Malignant Liver Lesions

Michael Loudin, Ranjan Mascarenhas, Barry Schlansky

7. Health Maintenance in Liver Disease and Cirrhosis

Veronica Loy

8. Pre-operative and Post-operative Care of the Liver Patient

Malcolm M. Wells, Thomas D. Schiano

Part 2. Distinct Liver Disorders

9. Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis A & E

Adnan Said and Amanda DeVoss

10. Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis B (& D)

Tatyana Taranukha and Venelin Kounev

11. Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis C

Chalermrat Bunchorntavakul and K. Rajender Reddy

12. Viral Hepatitis: Other Viral Hepatides

Adnan Said and Aiman Ghufran

13. Alcoholic Liver Disease

Ashutosh Barve, Luis S. Marsano, Dipendra Parajuli, Matthew Cave, Craig J  McClain

14. Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Samer Gawrieh

15. Autoimmune Liver Diseases: Autoimmune Hepatitis

Albert J. Czaja

16. Autoimmune Liver Diseases: Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Ahmad H. Ali and Keith Lindor

17. Autoimmune Liver Diseases: Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Jose Franco

18. Autoimmune Liver Diseases: Overlap Syndromes

Albert J. Czaja

Helen Te

20. Metabolic and Genetic Liver Diseases: Hemochromatosis

Matthew J. Stotts and Bruce R. Bacon 

21. Metabolic and Genetic Liver Diseases: Wilson Disease

Syed Rahman and Kia Saeian

22. Metabolic and Genetic Liver Diseases: Glycogen Storage Diseases

Grzegorz W. Telega

23. Metabolic and Genetic Liver Diseases: Urea Cycle Defects

Grzegorz W. Telega

24. Metabolic and Genetic Liver Diseases: Porphyrias

Grzegorz W. Telega

25. Drug-Induced Liver Injury

Raj Vuppalanchi

26. Miscellaneous Disorders: Pregnancy Associated Liver Disorders, Vascular Disorders, Granulomatous Disease, and Amyloidosis

Eric F. Martin

Part 3. Care of the Cirrhotic Patient

27. Portal Hypertension

Douglas A. Simonetto and Vijay H. Shah

28. Endoscopic Management of Portal Hypertension 

Murad Abu Rajab

29. Portosystemic Encephalopathy

Jawaid Shaw and Jasmohan S. Bajaj

30. Ascites

Adam J. Schiro

31. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)

Adam J. Schiro

32. Hepatorenal Syndrome

Michael M. Yeboah

33 Hepatopulmonary Syndrome

Rahul Sudhir Nanchal and Tessa Damm

  

34. Endoscopy and the Liver Patient

Abdul H. Khan

35. Liver Resection

Amir H. Fathi and T. Clark Gamblin

36. Liver Transplantation: An Overview

Joohyun Kim and Johnny C. Hong 

Dr. Saeian is Professor of Medicine-Gastroenterology and the Associate Chief, Director of Clinical Affairs of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Dr. Saeian is a transplant hepatologist but remains interested and involved in all aspects of hepatology and gastroenterology. Dr. Saeian received his medical degree from the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, completed his Internal Medicine training, Chief Medical Residency and Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin and also received Hepatology and Liver Transplantation training at the University of Miami. He has been intimately involved in fellowship training since he joined the Faculty of MCW in 1999 and has had the opportunity to mentor trainees who have gone on to great success in his areas of research interest including minimal hepatic encephalopathy and outcomes research.

Dr. Shaker is a Tenured Professor of Medicine, Radiology and Otolaryngology, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) and Director of the Digestive Disease Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Dr. Shaker is the founder of the Dysphagia Research Society and joined the MCW faculty in 1988 since which time he has established a world-renowned research group internationally recognized for his work on the protective mechanisms of the upper airway during swallowing and gastroesophageal reflux. He developed the Shaker Exercise, an isotonic/isometric head lift exercise for treatment of swallowing difficulties, and the technique of unsedated transnasal upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Since 1989, he has been the recipient of numerous research awards from both the NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs and has mentored numerous renowned trainees.