Ebook: Diseases of the liver and biliary system

Content: Anatomy and function --
Assessment of liver function --
Biopsy of the liver --
The haematology of liver disease --
Ultrasound, tomography and magnetic resonance imaging --
Hepato-cellular failure --
Hepatic encephalopathy --
Acute liver failure --
Ascites --
The portal venous system and portal hypertension --
The hepatic artery and hepatic veins: the liver in circulatory failure --
Jaundice --
Cholestasis --Primary biliary cirrhosis --
Scherosing cholangitis --
Viral hepatitis: general features, hepatitis A, hepatitis E and other viruses --
Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus --
Hepatitis C virus --
Chronic hepatitis: general features, and autoimmune chronic disease --
Drugs and the liver --
Hepatic cirrhosis --
Alcohol and the liver --
Iron overload states --
Wilson's Disease --
Nutritional and metabolic liver diseases --
The liver in infancy and childhood --
The liver in pregnancy --
The liver in systemic disease, granulomas and hepatic trauma --
The liver in infections --
Nodules and benign liver lesions --
Malignant liver tumours --
Imaging of the biliary tract: interventional radiology and endoscopy --
Cysts and congenital biliary abnormalities --
Gallstones and inflammatory gallbladder diseases --
Benign stricture of the bile ducts --
Diseases of the Ampulla of Vater and pancreas --
Tumours of the gallbladder and bile ducts --
Hepatic transplantation.