Complications of Cirrhosis Evaluation and Management [Paperback]

This volume presents a concise yet comprehensive overview on all facets concerning the complications of cirrhosis. Structured in three sections, the book reviews the natural history of cirrhosis, the diagnostic and predictive tools available to assess the disease, complications, and treatment options such as liver assist devices?and transplantation. Topical concerns in the management of patients with cirrhosis are also addressed, including issues pertaining to the delivery of quality care in this patient population.

Written by experts in their fields, Complications of Cirrhosis: Evaluation and Management serves as a valuable resource for practitioners and physicians-in-training on the subject of cirrhosis.

Part 1: Diagnosing and prediction  Getting it right now, predicting it right in the future

Chapter 1: Pathogenesis and Evolution of Liver Fibrosis: Cirrhosis or Cirrhoses?
Francesca Saffioti, Massimo Pinzani

Chapter 2: Natural History of Cirrhosis
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao

Chapter 3: Prediction of Complications of Cirrhosis: Molecular Biomarkers
Mar Coll, Elsa Sol?, Pau Sancho-Bru

Chapter 4: Predictors of Clinical Complications of Cirrhosis
Joel P. Wedd, Avash Kalra, Scott W. Biggins

Chapter 5: Non-Invasive Markers of Fibrosis in the Assessment of Cirrhosis
Nikhiel B. Rau, Nezam Afdhal

Chapter 6: Diagnosis of cirrhosis: Imaging
Sumit Kumar, Sumeet K Asrani, Jayant Talwalkar

Chapter 7: Measurement of Portal Pressure and Transjugular Liver Biopsy
Juan G Abraldes, Philippe Sarlieve, Puneeta Tandon

Part 2: Current Management Strategies of the Complications of Cirrhosis

Chapter 8: Reversal of Cirrhosis
Gemma Odena, Eva Stein, Ramon Bataller

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