Liver Disease in Clinical Practice

This pocket guide covers the common manifestations of liver disease, how to treat them and refer them on, outlines the common clinical liver diseases and their current up to date management. Covering basic principles such as liver anatomy to more complicated issues such as treating fatty liver disease, hepatitis as well as end of life issues, this will help primary care physicians achieve a good working knowledge of liver disease.

Written by experts in the field and containing figures and tables, as well as case histories, this is an enjoyable and reader-friendly book for the busy physician. With its authoritative and didactic style and short chapters, it covers the common presentations and complications of liver disease, and how to deal with them.

Given the increasing prevalence of liver disease in the UK and throughout Western Europe, this is an ideal reference book for primary care physicians, registrars in training, clinical nurse specialists and other specialists including gastroenterologists, who may have to see patients with liver disease in their working lives.