Chronic Disease and Disability

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Dedication; Preface; Introduction; History of the Hepato-Biliary System: From Promethius to the Prodigious Pantheons of Progress in the past and Present; Pediatric Perspectives on Hepatitis; Hepatic-Related Hematologic Disorders in Children; Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents; Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease; Common Pediatric Liver Surgical Conditions; Hyperlipidemia and the Gastrointestinal Tract; Obesity in Children and Adolescents; Pediatric Liver Cancer; Gaucher Disease; Mucopolysaccharoidoses: Current Concepts and Perspectives in the 21st Century; Concepts of Metabolic Disorders; Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and the Liver; Niemann-Pick Disease; Wilsons Disease: The Liver, Brain, Eyes and More; Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI); Mitochondrial Hepatopathies; Parasitic Disease of the Liver in Children; Intestinal/Lung/Liver Flukes; Circumcision; The Pediatric Liver: Mental Health Considerations; Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability (CID) for Children and Adolescents: A Global Perspective; Behavioral Aspects of Chronic Illness; Physicians Use of Brief Counseling Models in a Pediatric Outpatient Setting; Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent; About the Editors; About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States; About the Childrens Hospital of the Kings Daughters (CHKD), Norfolk, Virginia, United States; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.