Hepatology Diagnosis and Clinical Management

This book will be an affordable, highly practical handbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when managing patients presenting with possible or overt liver disease. It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residents who have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim to be a specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide that provides key clinical information on each area of hepatology in an accessible form. Extracting relevant material from large reference textbooks can be very time consuming and for this reason, information in this handbook will be presented succinctly in a style suitable for quick reference and easy understanding. The chief emphasis will be on the clinical assessment and management of these patients, and all the major areas of liver disease will be covered, from liver cirrhosis to viral hepatitis, to autoimmune liver failure. Chapters will use a variety of structural features and colour coded boxes to increase the accessibility for residents. These include: key points/take-home points, case history, practice points and management algorithm/flow-charts. Each chapter will also contain sample multiple choice questions that the reader will be able to test themselves on.

Dr. Jenny Heathcote, MB.BS, M.D, FRCP, FRCP, is Professor of Medicine at the?University of Toronto. She graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK in 1968. After completing internship and residency in internal medicine, she moved to Stanford, USA for further research training and joined the Toronto Western Hospital, where she has since built up an internationally recognized clinical liver research unit with a major interest in viral hepatitis and autoimmune liver disease. She is a Senior Scientist in the Toronto Western Research Institute where she is Division Head of "Patient Based Clinical Research".
Dr. Heathcote has been a Professor at the University of Toronto since 1995, winning numerous awards in a stellar career, including:?Queen's Jubilee Medal for services to hepatology;?Canadian Liver Foundation Gold Medal at the Canadian Digestive Diseases Week in 2004; the Canadian Liver Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 2004; American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Distinguished Achievement Award 2005;?International Sheila Sherlock Award from the Falk Foundation 2006.
She was funded from 2003 — 2009 by the Canadian?Institutes of Health Research, and was Director of the CIHR funded National Canadian Research Training Program in Hepatitis C. She now heads up the NIH funded Toronto site for the North American Clinical network for chronic hepatitis B.
She has published over 200 papers in the area of autoimmune liver disease and chronic viral hepatitis.

Clinical Assessment of the Adult Patient with Possible Liver Disease: History and Physical
Initial Diagnosis, Workup and Assessment of Severity of Liver Disease in Adults
Pediatric Liver Disease: An Approach to Diagnosis and Assessment of Severity
Natural History of the Cirrhotic Patient
Management of Complications of Portal Hypertension in Adults and Children: Variceal Hemorrhage
Management of Ascites
Benign and Malignant Tumours of the Liver in Adults
Chronic Portosystemic Encephalopathy and its Management
Indications for Liver Transplantation in Adults and Children
Management of Fulminant Hepatic Failure
Management of the Complications of Liver Transplantation
Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E and Others
Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis B
Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Chronic Hepatitis C
Liver Disease in the Alcoholic
Drug-induced Liver Disease
Obesity and its Hepatic Complications in Adults and Children
HIV-associated Liver Diseases
Autoimmune Hepatitis in Adults and Children
Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease and its Management in Adults and Children
Vascular Diseases of the Liver
Approach to Metabolic and Storage Diseases
Wilson Disease: When Should You Think of Wilson disease?
Liver Disease in Pregnant Women
Cystic Disease of the Liver
An Internist's Approach to Radiologic Examination of the Liver
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