Textbooks

This atlas presents and evaluates many crucial concepts regarding liver disease using photomicrographs, charts, and tables. It features hundreds of high quality images complete with in-depth explanations on such topics as viral hepatitis, therapeutic successes in the treatment of HIV, and liver transplantation. This new edition includes more coverage on the causes and effects of fat deposition in the liver, further emphasizing the roles it plays on an individual's health. Also included are excellent sections on bilirubin metabolism, and the management of major complications of liver disease including ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatic encephalopathy and portal hypertension. In addition, the volume discusses the characteristics and natural histories of acute viral hepatitis and the important roles of vaccination in the prevention of hepatitis A and hepatitis B. The new edition also includes information on new advances on diagnosis and therapy.