Cholestatic Liver Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lindor, Keith D. (Editor), Talwalkar, Jayant A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

Over the past 2 decades, there has been a steady increase in knowledge associated with the clinical manifestations of cholestatic liver disease. In addition to a growing amount of information on the well-studied disorders of primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, there has bee...

Table of Contents:

• Diagnosis of cholestasis Liver tests/antibodies
• Drug-induced cholestasis Include herbal remedies
• PBC Usual (overlap and recurrence after transplant covered elsewhere)
• PSC Usual (overlap and recurrence after transplant covered elsewhere) Risk of colon CA with IBD, colon CA post-transplant, and cholangiocarcinoma
• Overlap Syndrome with autoimmune hepatitis
• Rare causes of cholestasis (genetic disorders)
• Cholestatic variants of alcohol, viral disease Alcohol Hepatitis (viral)
• Cholestasis from systemic disorders Sarcoid, lymphoma, granulomatous disease, cystic fibrosis, rheumatologic diseases
• Complications of cholestasis Osteoporosis Pruritus Lipids
• Cholestasis post transplantation Drugs, strictures, viral disease, recurrent cholestatic liver disease.