Ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden zu autoimmunen Lebererkrankungen, Pathogenese, Diagnose und Management. Autoimmune Liver Disease Management and Clinical Practice erlautert alles Wissenswerte zum aktuellen Forschungsstand autoimmuner Lebererkrankungen und legt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf Diagnose und Behandlung. Nach einer ausfuhrlichen Darstellung der heutigen Erkenntnisse in der Immunologie in Verbindung mit der Autoimmunitat der Leber werden die vier wichtigsten autoimmunen Lebererkrankungen bei Erwachsenen und Kindern erlautert, einschliesslich Management, Rolle von Lebertransplantationen, erprobte Ansatze des Patientenmanagements und Empowerment-Ansatze. Die Autoren, Experten des Fachgebiets, untersuchen im Detail autoimmune Lebererkrankungen und geben Kliniker Handreichungen zur Patientenunterstutzung. Die folgenden Themenkomplexe werden unter anderem ausfuhrlich behandelt: - Die vier autoimmunen Lebererkrankungen, deren Diagnose und Behandlungsoptionen. - Einsatz (und Missbrauch) von Autoantikoerpern bei Diagnose und Behandlung. - Rolle und Zeitpunkt von Lebertransplantationen und die Auswirkung auf wiederkehrende autoimmune Lebererkrankungen und De-novo-Autoimmunhepatitis. - Optimales Patientenmanagement und patientenbezogene Pflege. Dieses Referenzwerk zeigt umfassend, im Detail und mit alltaglichem Praxisbezug die jungsten Entwicklungen beim Management von Lebererkrankungen und richtet sich an AErzte, Pflegepersonal und Experten im Gesundheitswesen.

Explore this practical and step-by-step guide to managing liver transplant patients from leading international clinicians in Hepatology The newly revised Second Edition of Liver Transplantation: Clinical Assessment and Management delivers expert clinical guidance on best practices in managing the care of liver transplant patients. Authors are all experts in their field and cover a world-wide perspective. Organized in an accessible, stepwise fashion and packed with text features such as key points, the book covers all critical areas of each stage of the liver transplant journey, from assessment, to management on the list, to long term care. Readers will learn when to refer a patient for liver transplantation, how to assess a potential liver transplant recipient, learn the principles of the procedure and the long term management of the transplant recipient. Liver Transplantation provides the entire hepatology and surgical team the information required for a sound understanding of the entire procedure, from pre- to post-operative care and management. Clinically oriented and management-focused, the book is far more accessible than the liver transplant sections in traditional hepatology textbooks. Readers will also enjoy: A thorough discussion of when to refer a patient for liver transplantation, including general considerations and the use and abuse of prognostic models An exploration of the selection, assessment, and management of patients on the transplant list, including how to manage a patient with chronic liver disease while on the waiting list A treatment of liver transplantation for acute liver failure (ALF), including assessment and management of ALF patients on the transplant waiting list A discussion of care of the liver transplant recipient after the procedure in the short and long term Perfect for gastroenterologists, hepatologists, and surgeons and other health care professionals managing patients with liver disease who are awaiting, undergoing and following liver transplantation, Liver Transplantation: Clinical Assessment and Management will also earn a place in the libraries of medical students, residents, internal medicine physicians, and GI/Hepatology trainees and all health care professionals providing clinical care to people with liver disease, before, during and after transplantation.

For people with alcohol excess and liver disease, successful management must be two-fold with management of both their psychological/physical addiction to alcohol and their liver disease. Alcohol Abuse and liver disease, with its joint focus on hepatology and psychiatry, provides both hepatologists and psychiatrists of all levels with a practical, concise and didactic guide to the investigation and clinical management of those with alcohol-related problems. Edited by a practicing hepatologist in the UK and a practising specialist in psychiatry/substance abuse in the US, it covers areas such as: Risk factors for alcoholic liver disease Interaction of alcohol with other co-morbidities Clinical assessment of alcohol intake Detoxification and management of withdrawal Psychotherapeutic and pharmaceutical interventions Treatment of liver disease Key points, management diagrams and high-quality images are all be supported by the very latest in clinical guidelines from the major hepatology and psychiatry societies such as the APA, EPA, AASLD and EASL. With increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary speciality care in this area, this is the ideal tool to consult in order to provide the best care possible care for what are very challenging patients to manage.

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This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

1925. The lessons in this book are actual problems that other boys and girls of your age have faced. Some of them have decided to meet them the wrong way and others the right way. The author has written down for you these problems and the way the boys and girls have decided about them. The author hopes that by the end of this course of lessons the reader will have turned away from impulsiveness and learned to be a thinker.

1925. The lessons in this book are actual problems that other boys and girls of your age have faced. Some of them have decided to meet them the wrong way and others the right way. The author has written down for you these problems and the way the boys and girls have decided about them. The author hopes that by the end of this course of lessons the reader will have turned away from impulsiveness and learned to be a thinker.