Published June, 2009
By Paul Martin
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Often the hepatologist sees patients in consultation. This book focuses on how to deal with diagnosing, treating, and managing patients in the hospital on a consultation basis. It presents articles on the asymptomatic outpatient with abnormal LFTs, and surgery in the patient with liver disease.

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Published February, 2009
By Yoshitsugu Tajima, Tamotsu Kuroki and Takashi Kanematsu
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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Because the tumor in this model mimicked the characteristics of human tumors, a series of experimental investigations were conducted to clarify the pathological characteristics of biliary carcinoma, the genetic alterations during biliary carcinogenesis, and the relationship between biliary inflammation and c- cinogenesis.

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Published February, 2009
By Arun J. Sanyal, Stephen H. Caldwell and Arun Sanyal
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Focuses on advances in liver disease related to disturbances in hemostasis and coagulation. This work emphasizes the multifaceted aspects of coagulation disorders in liver disease from hypo-coagulable to hyper-coagulable states and the limitations of conventional tests such as the INR.

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Published December, 2008
By Hengli Tang
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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When I was ?rst approached by Dr. Hengli Tang about writing the foreword to this book, the second edition of Hepatitis C Virus, I was a little puzzled: Book forewords are penned by persons far more famous than I am.

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Published November, 2008
By James F. Trotter and Gregory T. Everson
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
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Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics grew out of a need I perceived within the fields of transplant hepatology and liver transplantation. To meet the transplant community's need for emerging information about liver transplantation, Dr. Larry Chan, Dr. Igal Kam, and I initiated the Controversies in Transplantation Conference.

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Published November, 2008
By G. Adler, Chung Owyang, D. M. Fan, J. D. Jia, Nicholas F. LaRusso, N. F. LaRusso and C. Owyang
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Falk Symposium
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Covers the proceedings of Falk Symposium 163 'Chronic Inflammation of Liver and Gut' that was held in Hangzhou, P R China. This book demonstrates the role of the immune system and the intestinal micro flora in IBD. It describes chronic liver diseases with particular focus on treatment strategies of viral hepatitis and liver fibrogenesis.

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Published September, 2008
By Erwin Kuntz and Hans-Dieter Kuntz
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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History, Morphology, Biochemistry, Diagnostics, Clinic, Therapy

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Published June, 2008
By Olaf Weber and Ulrike Protzer
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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Acute and chronic hepatitis and hepatitis-related diseases such as liver failure, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are among the most important causes for disabilities and death.

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Published June, 2008
By Morikazu Onji, Sk. Md. Fazle Akbar and Fazle Akbar
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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Great advances have taken place in basic research and the clinical usefulness of dendritic cells (DCs). Researchers in the field are optimistic that DCs, already in use for treating patients with cancers, soon can be used therapeutically for patients with chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, and allergic manifestations.

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Published June, 2008
By Zobair M. Younossi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This text is an essential resource for the day-to-day management of patients with liver disease and its complications. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field of hepatology and presents an evidence-based review of the disease or problem and a systematic approach to diagnosis and management. The text is supplemented by clear illustrations, algorithms, and tables.

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