Maternal Liver Disease

For health care providers and researchers, Ibdah (internal medicine and medical pharmacology and physiology, U. of Missouri-Columbia) brings together gastroenterology and hepatology and obstetrics and gynecology specialists from the US and France for eight chapters on the clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management, clinical outcomes, and scientific discoveries and research findings on the pathogenesis of liver disease in pregnancy. They focus on physiological changes in liver function tests during normal pregnancy; liver disease not specific to pregnancy, such as viral hepatitis, gall stone and biliary disease, hepatic vein thrombosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, hepatic adenoma, Wilson disease, and portal hypertension; liver disease unique to pregnancy, including hyperemesis gravidarum, intrahepatic cholestasis, preeclampsia-induced liver disease and HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets) syndrome, and the acute fatty liver; and transplantation. Chapters are also available online. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)