Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: D'Antiga, Lorenzo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Hepatology.; Pediatrics.; Surgical transplantation.; Metabolic diseases.; Gastroenterology .; Transplant Surgery.; Metabolic Diseases.; Gastroenterology.

This book is the first to provide balanced examination of both pediatric liver disease and liver transplantation - two topics that are inherently related, given that most chronic liver disorders eventually require organ replacement. The different forms of liver disease encountered in the pediatric a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Liver disease in paediatric medicine: An overview
• Chapter 2: Anatomy and histology of the liver and biliary tract
• Chapter 3: Laboratory evaluation of hepatobiliary disease
• Chapter 4: Diagnostic and interventional radiology
• Chapter 5: Practical approach to the jaundiced infant
• Chapter 6: Biliary atresia and other disorders of the extrahepatic biliary tree
• Chapter 7: Acute liver failure
• Chapter 8: Viral hepatitis
• Chapter 9: Autoimmune liver disease
• Chapter 10: Fibrocystic liver disease
• Chapter 11: Gallstone disease
• Chapter 12: Genetic and familial cholestasis
• Chapter 13: Wilson disease
• Chapter 14: Liver disease in cystic fibrosis
• Chapter 15: Inherited metabolic disorders
• Chapter 16: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis in children
• Chapter 17: Complications of cirrhosis
• Chapter 18: Cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
• Chapter 19: Vascular liver disease
• Chapter 20: Liver tumours and nodular lesions
• Chapter 21: The liver in systemic illness.-Chapter 22: Nutrition and liver disease.-Chapter 23: Intensive care management of the child with liver disease
• Chapter 24: Peculiarities of common and uncommon indications to liver transplantation
• Chapter 25: Organs availability and allocation
• Chapter 26: Surgical Techniques
• Chapter 27: Living donor liver transplantation
• Chapter 28: Listing for transplantation, postoperative management and f/up protocol
• Chapter 29: Surgical complications
• Chapter 30: Immunosuppression in paediatric liver transplantation
• Chapter 31: Pathology of liver allograft dysfunction
• Chapter 32: Chronic rejection and late allograft hepatitis
• Chapter 33: CMV and EBV infection and disease
• Chapter 34: Liver transplantation for inborn errors of metabolism
• Chapter 35: Immune tolerance following liver transplantation
• Chapter 36: Long-term outcome and transition to adult care
• Chapter 37: Neurodevelopment and Health Related Quality of Life of the Transplanted Child
• Chapter 38: Pediatric Liver Disease In Latin America
• Chapter 39: Liver disease in the African continent
• Chapter 40: Liver disease in the Asian continent
• Chapter 41: Next generation sequencing for the diagnosis of monogenic liver disease
• Chapter 42: Cell therapy for acute and chronic liver disease
• Chapter 43: Gene therapy in paediatric liver disease.