Main description:

This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the diagnosis and management of the critically ill cirrhotic patient. The book reviews recent data about risk factors for acute on chronic liver failure (including infection, renal dysfunction and acute alcoholic hepatitis), profiles the latest treatment strategies for the management of variceal bleeding, ascites, hepatocellular carcinoma and presents current and novel therapies for acute hepatic encephalopathy, and anticoagulation in liver disease. The volume also focuses on the changing etiology of liver disease, with an emphasis on obesity and frailty/sarcopenia, and advances in surgical techniques, including living donor liver transplants and gender disparities in liver transplantation. Palliative care for the critically ill liver patient is also discussed in the book.
Written by experts in the field, The Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient: Evaluation and Management is a valuable resource for clinicians, practitioners, health care providers, and researchers who encounter patients with chronic liver disease, including end-stage liver cirrhosis.

Contents:

1 Epidemiology and Natural History of Chronic Liver DiseaseJamil S. Alsahhar, Saleh Elwir
2 Management of AscitesFlorence Wong
3 Portosystemic Shunt Embolization in Overt Hepatic EncephalopathyThoetchai (Bee) Peeraphatdit, Michael D. Leise
4 Gastroesophageal Variceal Bleeding ManagementAlberto Zanetto, Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao
5 Renal Dysfunction in Patients with CirrhosisClaire Francoz, Francois Durand, Zaid I. Haddad, Kausar Hamiduzzaman, Saro Khemichian, Thin Thin Maw, Yuri S. Genyk, Mitra K. Nadim
6 Intensive Care Management of Patients with CirrhosisJody C. Olson
7 Infections in Critically Ill Cirrhosis PatientsJawaid Shaw, Jasmohan S. Bajaj
8 Obesity and the Critically Ill Cirrhotic PatientTiffany Wu, Vinay Sundaram
9 Frailty and Sarcopenia in the Critically Ill Patient with Cirrhosis Ammar Hassan, Elliot B. Tapper
10 Acute Alcoholic HepatitisJohn P. Rice
11 Acute on Chronic Liver FailureMark R. Pedersen, Shannan R. Tujios
12 Anticoagulation in the Hospitalized Patient with Decompensated Cirrhosis: Management of a Delicate BalanceJessica P.E. Davis, Nicolas M. Intagliata
13 The Management of Hepatocellular CarcinomaRobert R. McMillan, Vatche G. Agopian
14 Liver Transplantation Michael Sean Bleszynski, Peter TW Kim
15 Gender Disparities in Liver TransplantationTrinidad Serrano, Marina Berenguer
16 The Role of Palliative Care in CirrhosisRobert L. Fine