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Clinical Cases in Hepatology

von: Nora V. Bergasa
160,49 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	25.10.2021
ISBN/EAN:	9781447147152
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<div><p>This book provides a comprehensive resource for clinical hepatology. It details the systematic approach to patients with liver disease in outpatient and inpatient medical settings. A variety of case studies in hepatology including chronic viral hepatitis, and metabolic, autoimmune, and alcohol related liver disease are presented. The book enables the reader to develop a thorough understanding of the clinical presentation, natural history, epidemiology, genetics, and therapeutic options for the liver diseases that clinicians must recognize and manage from the first encounter with the patient through the years of follow up. </p>

<i>Clinical Cases in Hepatology</i> systematically describes the approach to a patient with liver disease and is a valuable source for all medical professionals and trainees who care for these patients or are seeking a detailed reference guide to developing their knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of hepatology.<br></div>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<div>Acute hepatitis (e.g. viral, drug-induced).- Primary biliary cirrhosis.- Liver disease secondary to alcohol abuse.- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.- Hepatic manifestations of sepsis.- Autoimmune hepatitis.- Cholestasis of pregnancy.- Complications of cirrhosis (e.g. portal hypertension, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy).- Ischemic hepatitis.- AIDS and liver disease. </div><div><br></div>

Autorenportrait

<p>Dr. Nora V. Bergasa is Professor of Medicine Emerita at New York Medical College and Chairman Emerita of the Department of Medicine at New York City (NYC) Health + Hospitals (H+H)/ Metropolitan and a retired member of the Physician Affiliate Group of New York. She serves as Hepatology Attending at NYC, H+H/Woodhull. She graduated from medical school from the Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic, did her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Downstate, and completed her clinical and research training in hepatology in the Liver Diseases Section of the National Institutes of Health. She has conducted basic and clinical investigations in several areas of hepatology, including cholestasis. Her major research field has concerned the pruritus of liver disease for which she is internationally recognized.</p>

Dr. Bergasa has received numerous awards including The First Oath of Hippocrates Award from SUNY, Downstate, Doctor of the Year, and The Mark H. Levin Oncology Service Award from H++H/Metropolitan, and the 2017 Heritage Innovation in Healthcare Delivery Award. Dr. Bergasa is a fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the American Gastroenterological Association, and a Master of the American College of Physicians.

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<p>This book provides a comprehensive resource for clinical hepatology. It details the systematic approach to patients with liver disease in outpatient and inpatient medical settings. A variety of case studies in hepatology including chronic viral hepatitis, and metabolic, autoimmune, and alcohol related liver disease are presented. The book enables the reader to develop a thorough understanding of the clinical presentation, natural history, epidemiology, genetics, and therapeutic options for the liver diseases that clinicians must recognize and manage from the first encounter with the patient through the years of follow up. </p>

<i>Clinical Cases in Hepatology</i> systematically describes the approach to a patient with liver disease and is a valuable source for all medical professionals and trainees who care for these patients or are seeking a detailed reference guide to developing their knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of hepatology.<br>

Sonderbeitrag

<p>Features case presentations of how to appropriately approach treating patients with liver disease</p><p>Describes the epidemiological characteristics of a variety of liver diseases</p><p>Details techniques for interpreting experimental data and techniques for conducting clinical trials</p>

Verkaufsargumente

Each chapter comprises of a case presentation of a patient with liver disease and the approach to the given patient Epidemiological characteristics of the disease that may concern current social realities are discussed (e.g. social burden of the disease) As appropriate, photographs of liver biopsies are included, as well as experimental data summarized in tables Includes current treatment of the disease, including discussions of clinical trials