Book description
This book will be an affordable, highly practical handbook on
hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses,
and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when
managing patients presenting with possible or overt liver disease.
It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residents who
have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim to be a
specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide that provides key
clinical information on each area of hepatology in an accessible form.
Extracting relevant material from large reference textbooks can be
very time consuming and for this reason, information in this handbook
will be presented succinctly in a style suitable for quick reference
and easy understanding.
The chief emphasis will be on the clinical assessment and management
of these patients, and all the major areas of liver disease will be
covered, from liver cirrhosis to viral hepatitis, to autoimmune liver failure.
Chapters will use a variety of structural features and colour coded
boxes to increase the accessibility for residents. These include: key
points/take-home points, case history, practice points and management
algorithm/flow-charts. Each chapter will also contain sample multiple
choice questions that the reader will be able to test themselves on.
