Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children (eBook)

Dr Deirdre Kelly is a consultant pediatric hepatologist at the Liver Unit of Birmingham Children's Hospital and Reader in Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham. She was born and brought up in Calcutta, India, in the post-Raj era while her father was working for Lipton's Tea. She spent her early childhood in India and went to boarding school in Dublin when she was 12 years old. She first decided to become a doctor at the age of 8 and despite much opposition from family and nuns at her convent school, persisted and went to Trinity College Dublin to study medicine in 1967.

SECTION 1: SUPPORTING THE FAMILY.

1 Supporting the Child and Family.

SECTION 2: INVESTIGATING THE LIVER.

2 Useful Investigations in the Assessment of Liver Disease.

3 Interventional Radiology and Invasive Diagnostic Imaging.

SECTION 3: NEONATAL LIVER DISEASE.

4 The Jaundiced Baby.

5 The Acutely Ill Baby.

SECTION 4: ACUTE LIVER DISEASE.

6 Acute Hepatitis.

7 Fulminant Hepatitis and Acute Liver Failure.

SECTION 5: LIVER DISEASE IN OLDER CHILDREN.

8 Chronic Hepatitis.

9 Congenital and Structural Abnormalities of the Liver.

10 Non-alcoholic Steatosis.

11 Hepatobiliary Disease in Cystic Fibrosis.

SECTION 6: METABOLIC LIVER DISEASE.

12 Metabolic Liver Disease in the Infant and Older Child.

13 Diseases of Copper Metabolism.

SECTION 7: MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE.

14 Complications and Management of Chronic Liver Disease.

SECTION 8: THE LIVER AND OTHER ORGANS.

15 The Liver in Systemic Illness.

16 Skin Disorders in Liver Disease.

17 Dental Care of Children with Liver Disease.

SECTION 9: SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF LIVER DISEASE.

18 Surgical Disoders of the Liver and Bile Ducts and PortalHypertension.

19 Primary Hepatic Tumours.

SECTION 10: TRANSPLANTATION.

20 Liver Transplantation.

21 Small Bowel Transplantation in Children.

SECTION 11: LIVER DISEASE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.

22 Liver Disease in the Developing World