Clinical Cases in Hepatology

Introduction

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.

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii
2. The Liver

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   Pages 1-4
3. Approach to the Patient with Liver Disease

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   Pages 5-26
4. Primary Biliary Cholangitis

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   Pages 27-84
5. Autoimmune Hepatitis

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   Pages 85-122
6. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

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   Pages 123-162
7. Chronic Hepatitis C

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   Pages 163-201
8. Chronic Hepatitis B

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   Pages 203-253
9. Alcohol Induced Liver Disease

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   Pages 255-293
10. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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    Pages 295-323
11. Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

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    Pages 325-340
12. Hemochromatosis

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    Pages 341-370
13. Wilson’s Disease

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    Pages 371-390
14. Tumors of the Liver

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    Pages 391-410
15. Drug Induced Liver Injury

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    Pages 411-442
16. Complications of Liver Disease

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    Pages 443-486
17. Back Matter

    Pages 487-497

    
    

    About the editors

    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.

    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.