Now in full-colour throughout, the only Handbook of Liver Diseases available gives you comprehensive information on the all significant liver diseases. The outline format ensures that you get more reliable information by reading fewer words than ever before in Hepatology. Key information is clearly marked throughout and alert symbols are placed in the text to draw your attention to information that is critical to your patient's welfare. Exquisite colour illustrations, informative colour tables and selected, essential references support the text. Key points are listed at the beginning of each chapter and many new illustrations have been added.

The text is written by an International Who's Who of Hepatology so that you can absolutely depend upon the information within. The text has been produced on an exceptionally short schedule to ensure that all the material within is absolutely current.

This text is an ideal clinical reference for the busy Gastroenterologist, the Gastroenterologist in training, the Internist and even the Medical Student.

• Discusses the hottest topics in the field, such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and the latest information on liver transplantation.
• Includes expanded coverage of chronic hepatitis C, most notably the use of combination therapy with peginterferon and ribavirin and improvements in the management of the side effects of antiviral therapy.
• Offers the most recent therapeutic options for the management of chronic hepatitis B and advances in the understanding of the molecular biology of this virus.
• Updates the approach to the diagnosis of many liver diseases due to newer tests based on molecular techniques and advances in imaging.
• Features over 340 full-color illustrations.
• Uses a redesigned templated, outline format that makes reference a snap.

1. Assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies 2. Acute liver failure 3. Acute viral hepatitis 4. Chronic viral hepatitis 5. Autoimmune hepatitis 6. Alcoholic liver disease 7. Fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis 8. Drug-induced and toxic liver disease 9. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension: an overview 10. Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal bleeding 11. Ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis 12. Hepatorenal syndrome 13. Hepatic encephalopathy 14. Primary biliary cirrhosis 15. Primary sclerosing cholangitis 16. Hemochromatosis 17. Wilson's disease and related disorders 18. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and other metabolic liver diseases 19. Budd-Chiari syndrome and other vascular disorders 20. The liver in heart failure 21. The liver in pregnancy 22. The liver in systemic disease 23. Pediatric liver disease 24. Liver disease in the elderly 25. HIV and the liver 26. Granulomatous liver disease 27. Hepatic tumours 28. Hepatic abscesses and cysts 29. Other infections involving the liver 30. Surgery in the patient with liver disease and postoperative jaundice 31. Liver transplantation 32. Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis 33. Diseases of the bile ducts 34. Tumors of the biliary tract

By Lawrence S. Friedman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chair, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Assistant Chief of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; and Emmet B. Keeffe, MD, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Chief of Hepatology, Co-Director, Liver Transplant Program, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA