Disease Progression and Disease Prevention in Hepatology and Gastroenterology -

Disease Progression and Disease Prevention in Hepatology and Gastroenterology

Buch | Hardcover
274 Seiten
2006 | 2006 ed.
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-5109-8 (ISBN)
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Proceedings of the Falk Symposium 150 held in Berlin, Germany, October 3-4, 2005
Here are the proceedings of the Falk Symposium 150, "Disease Progression and Disease Prevention in the Gastrointestinal Tract", held in Berlin, Germany, October, 2005. Pathogenic processes are described as well as primary and secondary prevention and treatment of disease. The symposium generated new perspectives on the various different pathogenic mechanisms in gastrointestinal organs. The book summarizes the state of the art in these different disease entities, as presented at the meeting.

List of principal contributors.- List of chairpersons.- Preface.- CHOLELITHASIS AND BILIARY CANCER.- 1. Molecurla mechanisms controlling bile metabolism in health and disease.- 2. Aetiology and pathogenesis of primary sclerosing cholantitis.- 3. Aetiology and pathogenesis of biliary cancer.- 4. Primary sclerosing cholantitis: diagnosis, survelliance and timing of interventions.- 5. Surgical treatment of central bile duct carcinoma.- 6. Special lecture: Genetic epidermiology and future developments in the treatment of cholecystolithiasis.- 7. Special Lecture: Future perspectives in the treatment of biliary tumour disease: a multidisciplinary approach.- PANCREATIC CARCINOMA.- 8. Genetics of chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic carcinoma.- 9. Survelliance and diagnostics of chronic pancreatitis.- 10. Medical management of pancreatic cancer.- 11. Pancreatic carcinoma: surgery, palliative resection and value of lymph mode resection.- 12. Special lecture: Development compounds with different modes of action for the treatment of pancreatic and hepatocellular carcinomas: ZK 304709 and L19-IL-2.- 13. Special lecture: Anti-apoptotic intervention as a novel treatment option in lever diseases.- SECTION LIVER I: DIAGNOSIS AND SURVEILLANCE IN LIVER DISEASE.- 14. Imaging modalities in hepatic tumours.- 15. Hepatocellular tumours and tumour-like conditions: role of liver biopsy.- SECTION LIVER II: LIVER DISEASE 16. Role of insulin resistance and extra-hepatic signalling in fatty liver disease.- 17. Steatosis and hepatitis C.- 18. Hereditary haemochromatosis: the genes and the disease.- 19. Wilson disease: the impact of molecular advances.- SECTION LIVER III: VIRAL HEPATITIS.- 20. Immune pathogenesis of hepatitis B and C.- 21. Therapeutic vaccination strategies in chronic hepatitis B.- SECTION LIVER IV: HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA.- 22. Gene expression profiling of hepatocellular carcinoma: past, present and future.- 23. Hepatocellular carcinoma: a cancer of developed countries.- 24.New therapeutic approaches: anti-angiogenesis immunotherapy.- 25. Special lecture: Living donor liver transplantation: extended indications?.- Index.

Reihe/Serie Falk Symposium ; 150
Zusatzinfo XIV, 274 p.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1300 g
Themenwelt Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Gastroenterologie
Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Hepatologie
ISBN-10 1-4020-5109-3 / 1402051093
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5109-8 / 9781402051098
Zustand Neuware
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