Contents:

Section 1 – Endoscoping liver patients: safety issues

1. Equipment, sterilisation and training issues

2. Sedation and analgesia in  liver disease

3. Endoscopy and  coagulation abnormalities in the liver patient

4. Patients with specific aetiologies (viral, bariatric, nafld, vcjd, alcohol)

Section 2 – Endoscopic management of portal hypertension

4. Diagnosis and staging of oesophagogastric varices

5. Endoscopic management of acute variceal bleeding

6. Primary and secondary variceal prophylaxis: role of endoscopy

7. Refractory variceal bleed: when endoscopy fails what next?:

8. Gastropathy and gastric vascular ectasias in portal hypertension

9. Portal hypertensive enteropathy and colopathy

10. Endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of portal hypertension

11. Wireless capsule endoscopy in liver disease

Section 3 – Endoscopic diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal pathology in the liver patient

12. Common gastrointestinal pathology  in the liver patient (barrett s, pud, gastropathy, celiac, polypoid lesions)

13. Anaemia and obscure gi bleed in the liver patient

14. ERCP and cholangioscopy in hepatobiliary disease

15. EUS in the diagnosis of hepatobiliary malignancy

16. Endomicroscopy in the diagnosis of hepatobiliary disease

17. Laparoscopy in patients with hepatobiliary disease

Section 4 – Endoscopy in the liver transplant patient

18. Endoscopy of the liver patient prior to liver transplantation 

19. Endoscopy of the post– liver transplant patient

20.luminal diseases in the liver transplant patient