Table of Contents:

Section I. Basics

1. Anatomy and Cellular Functions of the Liver
2. Bile Acids and Bile Flow: New Functions of Old Molecules
3. Intestinal Microbiome and the Liver
4. Liver as an Immune Organ
5. Liver's Response to Injury: Inflammation and Fibrosis
6. Stem Cells and Hepatocyte Transplantation

Section II. Management and Assessment of Liver Disease
7. Approach to Jaundice and Abnormal Liver Function Tests
8. Noninvasive Assessment of Disease Progression
9. Molecular and Genetics-Based Diagnostics
10. Imaging in Assessment of Liver Disease and Lesions
11. Evaluation of the Hepatic Mass
12. Assessment of Liver Histology
13. Critical Care Management of Patients with Liver Disease

Section III. Clinical Consequences of Chronic Liver Disease
14. Neurologic Consequences of Liver Disease
15. Ascites and Hyponatremia
16. Portal Hypertension Related to Bleeding
17. Renal Failure in Cirrhosis
18. Cardiopulmonary Complications of Cirrhosis
19. The Hemostatic and Hematopoietic System in Liver Disease
20. Acute Liver Failure
21. Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure

Section IV. Specific Diseases
22. Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver Disease
23. Natural History and Cofactors of Alcoholic Liver Disease
24. Prevention and Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease
25. Pathogenesis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
26. Epidemiology, Natural History, and Diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
27. Management of NAFL-NASH and Metabolic Syndrome
28. Virology and Pathogenesis of Hepatitis C
29. Epidemiology, Natural History, and Diagnosis of Hepatitis C
30. Treatment of Hepatitis C
31. Virology and Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B
32. Epidemiology, Natural History, and Diagnosis of Hepatitis B
33. Treatment of Hepatitis B
34. Hepatitis D
35. Hepatitis A
36. Hepatitis E

Section V. Liver and Other Infections
37. HIV and the Liver
38. Liver Disease Associated with Systemic Viral Infection
39. Parasitic Liver Disease
40. Bacterial and Miscellaneous Infections of the Liver

Section VI. Immune Diseases of the Liver
41. Autoimmune Hepatitis and Overlap Syndrome
42. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
43. Primary and Secondary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Section VII. Vascular Diseases of the Liver
44. Budd-Chiari and Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome
45. Portal and Splenic Vein Thrombosis

Section VIII. Tumors of the Liver
46. Hepatocellular Carcinoma
47. Cholangiocarcinoma
48. Other Malignant Hepatic Tumors
49. Benign Liver Tumors

Section IX. Liver Transplantation
50. Pretransplant Evaluation and Care
51. Transplantation of the Liver
52. Post Liver Transplant Management
53. Recurrent Primary Disease after Transplantation

Section X. Liver Affected by Other Conditions or Diseases
54. Liver and Pregnancy
55. Nutrition and the Liver
56. Drug-Induced Liver Injury
57. Preoperative and Postoperative Hepatic Dysfunction

Section XI. Inherited and Pediatric Liver Diseases
58. Bilirubin Metabolism and Its Disorders
59. Wilson Disease
60. Hemochromatosis
61. Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
62. Approach to and Evaluation of Metabolic Liver Diseases
63. Pediatric Cholestatic Syndromes
64. Fibrocystic Diseases of the Liver
65. Viral Hepatitis in Children