Comprising chapter-length case studies of patients with varied liver pathologies, this work enriches the knowledge of trainees and practicing clinicians, and includes a wealth of biopsy photographs, epidemiological analysis, and tabulated experimental data.
The aim of this book is to expand the knowledge of physicians in training, experienced clinicians, in the field of hepatology. The expansion of liver transplantation within hepatology, and the demanding care that patients in liver transplant hospital services require, have changed the focus of clinical hepatology to a surgical subspecialty, laced with immunology. There is a vacuum in the knowledge of classical hepatology in the developing physicians, and medical students that this book aims to fill. In this context, the experience in hospital and outpatient medicine in the care of patients with liver disease in public hospitals represents a source of information that will be made available to the readers.
Acute hepatitis (e.g. viral, drug-induced).- Primary biliary
cirrhosis.- Liver disease secondary to alcohol abuse.- Non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease.- Hepatic manifestations of sepsis.- Autoimmune
hepatitis.- Cholestasis of pregnancy.- Complications of cirrhosis (e.g.
portal hypertension, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy).- Ischemic
hepatitis.- AIDS and liver disease.
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.
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