Endoscopy in Liver Disease

Edited by JOHN N. PLEVRIS, Professor and Consultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre for Liver and Digestive Disorders, The Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh, UK PETER C. HAYES, Professor of Hepatology, Liver Unit, The Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh, UK PATRICK S. KAMATH, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA LOUIS M. WONG KEE SONG, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Section 1 - Endoscoping liver patients: safety issues 1. Equipment, sterilisation and training issues 2. Sedation and analgesia in liver disease 3. Endoscopy and coagulation abnormalities in the liver patient 4. Patients with specific aetiologies (viral, bariatric, nafld, vcjd, alcohol) Section 2 - Endoscopic management of portal hypertension 4. Diagnosis and staging of oesophagogastric varices 5. Endoscopic management of acute variceal bleeding 6. Primary and secondary variceal prophylaxis: role of endoscopy 7. Refractory variceal bleed: when endoscopy fails what next?: 8. Gastropathy and gastric vascular ectasias in portal hypertension 9. Portal hypertensive enteropathy and colopathy 10. Endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of portal hypertension 11. Wireless capsule endoscopy in liver disease Section 3 - Endoscopic diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal pathology in the liver patient 12. Common gastrointestinal pathology in the liver patient (barrett s, pud, gastropathy, celiac, polypoid lesions) 13. Anaemia and obscure gi bleed in the liver patient 14. ERCP and cholangioscopy in hepatobiliary disease 15. EUS in the diagnosis of hepatobiliary malignancy 16. Endomicroscopy in the diagnosis of hepatobiliary disease 17. Laparoscopy in patients with hepatobiliary disease Section 4 - Endoscopy in the liver transplant patient 18. Endoscopy of the liver patient prior to liver transplantation 19. Endoscopy of the post- liver transplant patient 20.luminal diseases in the liver transplant patient