Atlas of Pediatric Hepatology

Provides a practical, problem-based approach to liver disease in children

Enables better diagnosis through the use of illustrations

Presents a logical approach to the diagnosis and management of children with liver disease in a form that is easy to read and absorb

Provides a practical, problem-based approach to liver disease in children Enables better diagnosis through the use of illustrations Presents a logical approach to the diagnosis and management of children with liver disease in a form that is easy to read and absorb

Autorentext
Deirdre Kelly was born in Calcutta, India and educated in Ireland. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. She trained in adult gastroenterology and hepatology and paediatric hepatology in Ireland, the U K and the USA. She set up the Liver Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1989 and developed it into an international unit. Her special clinical interests are caring for children with all forms of liver disease, but especially viral hepatitis.

Her research interests include development of stem cell therapy, molecular genetics of inherited liver disease; treatment of viral hepatitis; immunosuppression and quality and outcome life following transplantation. Dr Jane Hartley, Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist, Liver Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital,Mr Khalid Sharif Consultant in Paediatric Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation, Birmingham Children's Hospital,Dr Rachel Brown Consultant Pathologist, qualifiedin 1993 from the University of Birmingham. Areas of interest include liver and hepatobiliary, head and neck.Dr Manigandan Subramanyam Thyagarajan Consultant Radiologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital

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The jaundiced baby.- The acutely ill baby.- The child with splenomegaly.- The child with abdominal distension.- The acutely ill older child.- Jaundice in an older child.- The child with chronic liver disease based on itching, abdominal distension, gastrointestinal bleeding.- The child with abnormal liver biochemistry.- Children with cancer who have liver disease.- The child with cystic fibrosis.- The child with acute liver failure.- The child who needs a liver transplant.- The child who needs a small bowel transplant.