Main description:

This book presents a comprehensive collection of classic cases and problem scenarios encountered as bedside case discussions during ward rounds. It facilitates the practical management of hepatic disorders. The unique aspect of hepatology involves the blend of the basic tenet of clinical medicine applied to liver disease and a multitude of interventional modalities in the management of liver, biliary, and pancreatic diseases. This book takes the reader through the process of ruling in and ruling out possibilities based on clinical data (history and examination) and then traces the logical trajectory of each case from recommended investigations to the analysis of test results and finally to making a syndromic diagnosis. By adopting an evidence-based approach, the book emphasizes analytical and need-based studies to exclude any mimics. This book helps practice hepatologists and gastroenterologists for a systematic approach towards the most common cases.

Contents:

Section I1.Approach to abnormal liver function tests
2.Acute liver failure
3.Clinical approach to Hepatitis B
4.Practical management of Chronic Hepatitis C
5.Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
6.Alcoholic hepatitis
7.Acute on chronic liver failure
8.Ascites and Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
9.Renal failure in cirrhosis
10.Hepatic encephalopathy
11. Approach to variceal hemorrhage
12.Autoimmune Hepatitis
13.Primary biliary cholangitis
14.Primary sclerosing cholangitis
15.Hepatocellular Carcinoma
16. Hepatic venous outflow tract obstruction
17.Sarcopenia and frailty in liver disease
18.Miscellaneous Topics
19.Selected topics in Transplant Hepatology
Section II
20.Choledocholithiasis and cholangitis
21.Approach to biliary obstruction and evaluation of biliary stricture
22.Acute pancreatitis
23.Chronic Pancreatitis