Oxford Textbook of Clinical Hepatology

Section 1: Structure of the liver; Section 2: Functions of the liver; Section 3: Hepatic mechanism of drugs and toxins; Section 4: General pathology; Section 5: Symptoms and signs of liver disease; Section 6: Investigation of heptobiliary disease; Section 7: Cirrhosis and chronic active hepatitis; Section 8: Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal bleeding; Section 9: Ascites, renal failure, and electrolyte disorders in cirrhosis. Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment; Section 10: Hepatic encephalopathy; Section 11: The spleen, hypersplenism, and other relationships between the liver and spleen; Section 12: Embryology; Section 13: Infections of the liver; Section 14: Immune disorders of the liver; Section 15: Alcoholic liver disease; Section 16: Fatty liver: other causes and complications; Section 17: Drug-induced liver injury; Section 18: Toxic liver injury; Section 19: Acute hepatic failure; Section 20: Inherited metabolic disorders; Section 21: Vascular abnormalities of hepatic and portal veins and hepatic arteries; Section 22: Tumours of the liver and bile-duct; Section 23: Biliary tract diseases; Section 24: The liver in diseases of other systems; Section 25: Effect of liver disease on other systems; Section 26: Paediatric liver disease; Section 27: Liver in the elderly; Section 28: Hepatitis and HIV infection in homosexual men and intravenous drug users; Section 29: Liver disease and pregnancy; Section 30: The general management of liver disease; Section 31: Surgery, anaesthesia, and the liver; Appendices