Books /Hepatology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Diseases

9781639271948

American Medical Publishers

English

2021

249

$ 167

Hepatology is a discipline of medicine concerned with the study, prevention, diagnosis, and management of diseases that affect the liver, gallbladder, biliary tree and pancreas. It focuses on the research and treatment of ailments such as fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer, hepatitis infections, drug overdose, jaundice and gastrointestinal bleeding. Liver diseases are diagnosed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, transhepatic pancreato-cholangiography, liver biopsy, paracentesis, and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. Liver diseases can be treated with lifestyle changes such as quitting alcohol and losing weight, or with medications and surgery. This book presents the complex subject of hepatology in the most comprehensible and easy-to-understand language. The topics covered herein deal with the core subjects of this branch of medicine. This book will serve as a reference to a broad spectrum of readers.