Hepatology

Hepatology — Internal Medicine

How it begins

Tratado exhaustivo de hepatología clínica: fisiología hepática, hepatitis virales y autoinmunes, esteatosis, cirrosis y sus complicaciones, insuficiencia hepática aguda, hepatotoxicidad, colestasis crónicas, enfermedades metabólicas, tumores y trasplante hepático.

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 — VHD (Hepatitis Delta)
10. Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)
11. · 3.1 Simplified HAI 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 Digestive 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 — CBP and CEP
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