Liver Disease
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Liver Disease

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Liver Disease

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Liver Disease discusses modern physiological and pathological concepts about liver in a concise manner. The author reviews the liver structure and functions including hepatic clearance, metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, or fats, as well as the integrity of the liver (dependent on blood flow, blood pressure, oxygen supply, or carbon dioxide concentrations). Investigations of liver diseases involve the following tests: urine, stools, biochemical, hematology, corticosteroids, radiology, biopsy, or peritoneoscopy. The author also discusses hepatitis, cholestatic jaundice, and toxic liver injury. The liver oxidizes around 95 percent of ingested alcohol by conversting it to acetaldehyde, a toxic substance. Anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or jaundice can follow after alcohol ingestion; gastrointestinal bleeding leads to gastritis or to a ruptured esophageal varices. The author also explains malignant diseases of the liver such as malignant hepatoma, secondary carcinoma or hypernephroma. Other liver diseases include portal cirrhosis and portal hypertension which is blood flow obstruction to either inside or outside the liver. This book is suitable for medical students, laboratory researchers involved in liver diseases, as well as doctors of general medicine.

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Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2013
ISBN
9781483192987
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Diseases & Allergies

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Liver Disease
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. Chapter 1. LIVER STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
  7. Chapter 2. INVESTIGATION OF LIVER DISEASE
  8. Chapter 3. VIRUS HEPATITIS
  9. Chapter 4. CHOLESTATIC JAUNDICE
  10. Chapter 5. TOXIC LIVER INJURY
  11. Chapter 6. ALCOHOL AND THE LIVER
  12. Chapter 7. LIVER DISEASE IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
  13. Chapter 8. THE LIVER IN SYSTEMIC DISEASE AND PREGNANCY
  14. Chapter 9. MALIGNANT DISEASE AND THE LIVER
  15. Chapter 10. PORTAL CIRRHOSIS
  16. Chapter 11. VARIETIES OF CIRRHOSIS
  17. Chapter 12. PORTAL HYPERTENSION
  18. Chapter 13. ASCITES
  19. Chapter 14. HEPATIC FAILURE
  20. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  21. INDEX