Hepatology

Hepatology — Internal Medicine

How it begins

Comprehensive treatise on clinical hepatology: liver physiology, viral and autoimmune hepatitis, steatosis, cirrhosis and its complications, acute liver failure, hepatotoxicity, chronic cholestasis, metabolic diseases, tumors and liver transplantation.

What it covers

1. Liver Physiology and Assessment of Liver Function
2. · 1.1 Main Liver Functions
3. · 1.2 Liver Function Tests (LFT)
4. · 1.3 Biochemical Patterns of Liver Injury
5. Viral Hepatitis
6. · 2.1 Hepatitis A (HAV) and Hepatitis E (HEV)
7. · 2.2 Hepatitis B — HBV
8. · 2.3 Hepatitis C — HCV
9. · 2.4 Hepatitis D — HDV (hepatitis delta)
10. Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)
11. · 3.1 Simplified Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) Score (IAIHG)
12. · 3.2 Treatment of AIH
13. Metabolic Fatty Liver Disease (MASLD / MAFLD)
14. · 4.1 Pathogenesis — "Multi-Hit" Model
15. · 4.2 Non-Invasive Diagnosis and Staging of Fibrosis
16. · 4.3 Treatment — Current Options and Approved Drugs in 2024
17. Alcoholic Hepatopathy
18. Liver Cirrhosis
19. · 6.1 Clinical Stages of Cirrhosis — D'Amico (NEJM 2010)
20. · 6.2 Prognostic Scales — Child-Pugh and MELD
21. Portal Hypertension and Complications of Cirrhosis
22. · 7.1 Esophageal Varices and Variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
23. · 7.2 Spontaneous Bacterial Ascites and Peritonitis (SBP)
24. · 7.3 Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE)
25. · 7.4 Hepatorrenal Syndrome (HRS)
26. · 7.5 Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (HPS) and Portopulmonary Hypertension (PPH)
27. Acute Liver Failure (ALF)
28. · 8.1 Etiology and Differential Diagnosis
29. · 8.2 Urgent Transplant Criteria — King's College Criteria
30. Drug Hepatotoxicity (DILI)
31. Chronic Cholestasis — PBC and PSC
32. · 10.1 Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)
33. · 10.2 Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)
34. Metabolic Liver Diseases
35. Primary Liver Tumors
36. · 12.1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
37. · 12.2 Cholangiocarcinoma (CC)
38. Liver Transplant
39. · 13.1 Indications and Contraindications
40. · 13.2 Post-Transplant Immunosuppression