Liver Disease in Children explains the pathophysiology, clinical and laboratory diagnosis and clinical manifestations of liver disease.
Liver Disease in Children provides extensive, well-edited information that is not easily accessible or available in other textbooks.
Contents
Pathophysiology of Pediatric Liver Disease
- Structural and Functional Development of the Liver
- Mechanisms and Morphology of Cholestasis
- The Cholangiopathies
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure in Children
- Cirrhosis and Chronic Liver Failure
- Portal Hypertension
Evaluation of Liver Disease
- Laboratory Assessment of Liver Function and Injury in Children
- Laboratory Diagnosis of Inborn Errors in Metabolism
Cholestatic Liver Diseases
- Approach to the Infant with Cholestasis
- Medical and Nutritional Management of Cholestalsis
- Neonatal Hepatitis and Congnetial Infections
- Biliary Atresia and Other Disorders of the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
- Neonatal Jaundice and Disordes of Bilirubin Metabolism
- Familial Hepatocellular Cholestasis
- Alagille Syndrome
- Diseases of the Gallbladder in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Hepatitis and Immune Disorders
- Acute and Chronic Viral Hepatitis
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Drug-Induced Liver Disease
- Immune Deficiency and Liver Disease
Metabolic Liver Disease
- Approach to the Child with Metabolic Liver Disease
- Antitrypsin Deficiency
- The Liver and Biliary Tract in Cystic Fibrosis
- Inborn Errors of Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Copper and Iron Storage Disorders
- Neonatal Hemochromatosis
- Porphyrins and Porphyria
- Tyrosinemia
- The Lysosomal Storage Diseases
- Disorders of Bile Acid Synthesis and Metabolism: A Metabolic Basis for Liver Disease
- Inborn Defects in Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation
- Mitochondrial Hepatopathies
- Peroxisomal Diseases
- Disorders of the Urea Cycle
Other Conditions and Issues in Pediatric Hepatology
- Bacterial, Parasitic, and Fungal Infections of the Liver
- Systemic Disease and the Liver
- Fibrocystic Liver Disease
- Hepatic Tumors in Children
- Liver Transplantation in Children
Index
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