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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sebastian MuellerPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 1.339kg ISBN: 9783030405441ISBN 10: 3030405443 Pages: 737 Publication Date: 03 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsMeasurement of Liver stiffness – History, techniques, performance .- Transient elastography.- Sampling error.- ARFI and other US-based techniques .- MRE.- Animal studies.- Take home message.- Liver stiffness and its association with fibrosis .- Fibrosis Histology.- Disease etiology.- Take home message.- Important clinical confounders of LS .- CVP heart failure.- Arterial pressure .- Portal pressure.- Cholestasis.- Hydrostatic pressure.- Outflow inflow concept.- Nutrition and alcohol consumption.- position.- Histology correlates ballooning steatosis inflammation.- Genes Rausch.- Else amyloidosis, mastocytosis.- Take home message.- LS and important clinical endpoints.- HCC.- Portal hypertension, bleeding.- Survival.- Disease specific aspects.- LTX.- Hepatic decompensation.- Take home message.- How to use LS in clinical practice: State of the art 2019 .- Standard procedure position, technique, fasting.- Dissection from inflammation: Intervention and inflammation-adapted.- Disease specific algorithms: portal vs lobular vs cholestatic disease.- LS in combinations with spleen stiffness: portal hypertension and bleeding.- Spleen stiffness, techniques, spleen size.- Localization of hepatic disease: lobular, portal versus extrahepatic.- Comparison of various techniques .- Screening of populations .- Combination with serum markers.- Sparing of biopsies.- Take home message.- Future applications of LS.- Cardiololgy cardiac cirrhosis.- Intensive care unit mortality CVP.- Nephrology water retention.- Hematology.- LTX setting waiting list.- Screening in addiction medicine.- Pregnancy.- Therapeutic monitoring of portal pressure lowering drugs.- Other organs.- Specific interpretation in clinical context.- LS and hepatic vs non-hepatic ascites Ascites.- LS changes in cirrhotics.- Mechanic cholestasis.- Clinical cases.- CAP.- Steatosis techniques.- CAP performance.- Genetics .- Molecular insights based on LS.- Pressure hypothesis of liver fibrosis.- Stiffness in vitro.- Extracellular matrix and stiffness Matrix .- Future directions and open questions.- Molecular basics of LS.- Directions of future studies.- Future diagnostic algorithms.ReviewsThis book is not aimed at radiology departments but rather at our colleagues in hepatotology and gastroenterology with the aim to offer them a deeper understanding of the role that elastography, in all its iterations, has in the assessment and management of liver disease. The book is very well written and edited ... . (Colin Griffin, RAD Magazine, May, 2021) Author InformationSebastian Mueller is Professor of Medicine and the current vice head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Salem Medical Center and the Co-Director of the Center for Alcohol Research at the University of Heidelberg. He studied medicine in Leipzig, Denver and Strasbourg and obtained a PhD in Biophysics in 1994. He was gastroenterology resident and consultant in Heidelberg, postdoctoral Humboldt fellow at USC in Los Angeles and lecturer at the BIDMC/Harvard Medical School from 2005-2007. Prof. Mueller’s translational research includes the pathophysiology, genetics, diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases, namely alcoholic liver disease. His longterm basic research interests focus on hepatic iron metabolism and redox regulation. Prof. Mueller has published more than 100 original articles. Since 2017, he is president of the European Society of Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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