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Dr. Levy has secured the field's top experts to offer the latest
clinical reviews on cholestatic liver disease. The issue will
include articles devoted to The Gut-Liver Axis; Update on Genetics
in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis;
New thoughts on IgG4 Associated Cholangitis; Cancer Risk and
Surveillance in PSC; Novel Therapies for PBC; and Liver
transplantation for Cholestatic Liver Diseases, to name a few. Dr.
Levy's issue will be the most current authority on cholestatic
liver disease.
The Guest Editors have put together an issue of clinical reviews
that provides the most current look at PBC. Authors, all experts in
their respective areas, have submitted articles in the following
areas: Changes in epidemiology of PBC; Genetic and epigenetics in
PBC; Role of bile acids and the bicarbonate umbrella in the
pathogenesis of PBC; Current treatment options in PBC; Work in
progress: Drugs in development; Natural history of PBC in the UDCA
era: Role of scoring systems; Treatment of Pruritus: Tricks of the
trade; Chronic complications of cholestasis: Work-up and
Management; Individualizing care: Management beyond medical
therapy; Role of liver biopsy: When to do, how to stage;
AMA-negative PBC: Is it really the same as AMA-positive PBC?; New
thoughts on Overlap syndrome with auto-immune hepatitis; and
Current status of liver transplantation for PBC.
Dr. Levy is a key leader in the field of hepatology, and she has
enlisted authors who are top experts in their fields to submit
state-of-the-art clinical reviews on cholestatic liver diseases.
Articles are devoted to genetic determinants of cholestasis,
nuclear receptors as drug targets, drug-induced cholestasis,
primary sclerosing cholangitis, therapeutic advances in primary
biliary cirrhosis, overlap syndromes, autoimmune sclerosing
cholangitis, secondary sclerosing cholangitis, Focus is also on
familial cholestasis, allagile syndrome and other hereditary causes
of cholestasis, Systemic causes of cholestasis, advances in
pathogenesis and treatment of pruritus, care of the cholestatic
patient, and transplantation for cholestatic diseases . Readers
will come away with a full overview of the diagnosis and treatment
of cholestatic liver diseases.
World-renown expert, Dr. Paul Martin, has assembled an impressive
list of authors to update the important topic of orthotopic liver
transplantation. The issue provides comprehensive clinical coverage
on this topics as articles are focused from the care of the
pre-transplant patient to the care of the post-transplant patient.
Content also covers the following topics: Transplantation for
Hepatocellular Carcinoma;
Transplantation for Cholangiocarcinoma; Management of Renal
Dysfunction in Liver Transplant Patients; Expanded Donors in Liver
Transplantation; Current Status of Liver Transplantation for HBV;
MELD: End of the First Decade; and Management of Recurrent HCV
Infection.
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