Published September, 2009
By David A. Sass
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Suitable for a practicing clinician, this book presents some of the best practices of caring for a cirrhotic patient. It covers topics such as diagnosis and epidemiology of cirrhosis; ascites: diagnosis and management; encephalopathy: pathophysiology and emerging therapies; and, portal hypertensive bleeding.

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Published September, 2009
By John L. R. Forsythe
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice
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Transplantation meets the needs of surgeons in higher training and practising consultants for a contemporary and evidence-based account of this sub-specialty that is relevant to their general surgical practice. This title incorporates the information on developments, management issues and operative procedures.

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Published September, 2009
By Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson, Raj Lakshman and Rajaventhan Srirajaskanthan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Deals with the topic of nutrition and liver disease. This title provides a holistic understanding of the causative elements that precipitate liver disease, the nutritional factors and regimens that reverse deteriorating hepatic function, and the nutritional elements found in a wide range of liver diseases.

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Published September, 2009
By Vijay Gorantla, Faith Zor, Jelena M. Janjic and Fatih Zor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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This book summarizes rapid progress and innovation in transplantation and regenerative medicine - the merger of reconstructive plastic surgery and transplantation - called Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation. This merger includes a wide variety of previously impossible translplantations using grafts derived from organ donors.

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Published September, 2009
By Mark D Stringer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd)
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This book explores the origins of seventy eponyms in the field of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and anatomy. Each section is deliberately short and intended for quick reference, providing accurate information about the origin of the eponym and the figure behind it.

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Published August, 2009
By Paul J. Pockros
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Presents articles that deals with therapies for treatment of HCV. This title addresses such novel therapies as interferons, viral kinetics and anti-viral resistance, anti-fibrotics, immunotherapeutics, hepatoprotectants and caspace inhibitors, and cyclosporine analogues.

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Published August, 2009
By Munemasa Ryu, Akihiro Cho, Hiroshi Yamamoto and Shinichi Okazumu
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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A new era for liver anatomy has dawned. Liver anatomy has since been reevaluated from the standpoint of portal segmentation and drainage veins and includes a reclassification of the liver.

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Published August, 2009
By Bandar Al Knawy, K. Rajender Reddy, Luigi Bolondi and K.Rajender Reddy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Published August, 2009
By Juan Iovanna and Uktam Ismailov
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Basic research discusses the implication of pancreatic stress protein in acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer and their possible role as therapeutic targets.

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Published July, 2009
By Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy, Shakuntala Krishnamurthy and S. Krishnamurthy
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This second edition of Nuclear Hepatology: A Textbook of Hepatobiliary Diseases has been revised to encompass all of the most recent developments in the field. The result is an up-to-date book that serves as a reference and a clinical and procedural guide.

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