Liver Disease in Children

Frederick J. Suchy is Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Ronald J. Sokol is Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center in Denver and The Children's Hospital in Denver. Dr. William F. Balistreri is Director of the Pediatric Liver Care Center and Medical Director of the Liver Transplantation Program at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati.

Part I: 1. Embryology and development of the liver Ken Zaret; 2. Functional development of the liver Saul J. Karpen and Frederick J. Suchy; 3. Mechanisms of cholestasis Saul Karpen and Frederick J. Suchy; 4. The cholangiopathies V. J. Desmet and Tania Roskams; 5. Fulminant hepatic failure in children Peter F. Whitington and Philip Squires; 6. Cirrhosis and chronic liver failure in children Ronald E. Kleinman; 7. Portal hypertension Benjamin Shneider; 8. Laboratory assessment of liver function and injury in children Vicky Ng; Part II: 9. Approach to the infant with cholestasis Frederick Suchy; 10. Medical and nutritional management of cholestasis Drew Feranchak and Ronald J. Sokol; 11. Neonatal hepatitis and congenital infections Philip Rosenthal; 12. Biliary atresia and other disorders of the extrahepatic bile ducts Fred Ryckman, Jorge Bezerra and William Balistreri; 13. Neonatal jaundice and disorders of bilirubin metabolism Glenn R. Gourley; 14. Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis Benjamin Shneider and Frederick Suchy; 15. Alagille syndrome David Piccoli and Nancy Spinner; 16. Diseases of the gallbladder James Heubi; Part III: 17. Acute and chronic viral hepatitis William F. Balistreri; 18. Autoimmune hepatitis Giorgina Meili-Vergani; 19. Sclerosing cholangitis William F. Balistreri; 20. Drug and toxin-induced liver disease Eve Roberts; 21. Immune deficiency and the liver Dino Hadzic; Part IV: 22. Laboratory diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism Piero Rinaldo; 23. Alpha1antitrypsin deficiency David Perlmutter; 24. The liver and biliary tract in cystic fibrosis Drew Frenanchak; 25. Inborn errors of carbohydrate metabolism Fayez K. Ghishan; 26. Disorders of copper metabolism Ronald J. Sokol; 27. Disorders of iron metabolism Michael Narkewicz and Alex Knisely; 28. Porphyrins and porphyria Robert Desnick; 29. Tyrosinemia Grant Mitchell; 30. The lysosomal storage diseases Gregory Grabowski; 31. Disorders of bile acid metabolism Kenneth Setchell; 32. Inborn errors of fatty acid oxidation Jamal Ibdah; 33. Mitochondrial hepatopathies Ronald Sokol; 34. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Jeffrey Swimmer; 35. Perioxisomal disorders Paul Watkins and Kathleen Schwartz; 36. Disorders of the urea cycle Mark Batshaw and Mendel Tuchman; Part V: 37. Bacterial, parasitic and fungal infections of the liver Donald Novak; 38. Systemic disease and the liver John Bucuvalas and Michael K. Farrell; 39. Fibrocystic liver disease Maureen Jonas and Antonio Perez-Atayde; 40. Hepatic tumors in children Milton Finegold; 41. Liver transplantation Frederick C. Ryckman, Maria Alonso, John Bucuvalas, and William Balistreri.