1. Assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies 2. Acute liver failure
3. Acute viral hepatitis 4. Chronic viral hepatitis 5. Autoimmune hepatitis 6.
Alcoholic liver disease 7. Fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis 8. Drug-
induced and toxic liver disease 9. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension: an
overview 10. Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal bleeding 11. Ascites and
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis 12. Hepatorenal syndrome 13. Hepatic
encephalopathy 14. Primary biliary cirrhosis 15. Primary sclerosing cholangitis
16. Hemochromatosis 17. Wilson's disease and related disorders 18. Alpha-1
antitrypsin deficiency and other metabolic liver diseases 19. Budd-Chiari
syndrome and other vascular disorders 20. The liver in heart failure 21. The
liver in pregnancy 22. The liver in systemic disease 23. Pediatric liver
disease 24. Liver disease in the elderly 25. HIV and the liver 26.
Granulomatous liver disease 27. Hepatic tumours 28. Hepatic abscesses and cysts
29. Other infections involving the liver 30. Surgery in the patient with liver
disease and postoperative jaundice 31. Liver transplantation 32. Cholelithiasis
and cholecystitis 33. Diseases of the bile ducts 34. Tumors of the biliary tract
Author Information
By Lawrence S. Friedman, MD, Professor of Medicine Chair, Department of
Medicine, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;
and Emmet B. Keeffe, MD, Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Liver
Transplant Program; Chief of Clinical Gastroenterology, Stanford University
Medical Center, Stanford, CA