Liver Disease in Clinical Practice (eBook)

Tim Cross BMedSci, MBBS, MRCP, MD, qualified from St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1996. He undertook general gastroenterology on the NE Thames rotation and underwent hepatology training, including transplant hepatology, at Kings College Hospital, Cambridge and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He worked as a consultant for three and a half years in the South West Liver Unit in Plymouth before relocating to the North West.

Part 1:  Clinical manifestations and approach to liver disease.- Assessment of liver function.- Liver Decompensation and Acute on Chronic Liver Failure.- Portal hypertension.- Hepatic encephalopathy.- Nutritional management of end-stage liver disease.- Part 2:  Liver diseases of lifestyle, genes and metabolism.- Alcoholic liver disease.- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.- Genetic haemochromatosis.- The orphan Liver Diseases.- Part 3:  Viral liver disease.- Chronic hepatitis B.- Chronic hepatitis C.- Part 4:  Immune mediated liver disease.- Autoimmune hepatitis and cross-over syndromes.- Primary biliary cholangitis.- Primary sclerosing cholangitis.- Section 5:  Areas of special consideration.- Pregnancy and liver disease.- Hepatocellular carcinoma.- Liver transplantation.- The hepatological curiosities.- End of life care for patients with liver disease.