| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 397 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Hepatorenal syndrome : current concepts / Andrés Cárdenas and Pere Ginès -- Treatment of the acute bleeding episode / Loren Laine [and others] -- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis/infections in cirrhosis / Miguel Navasa and Juan Rodés -- Prevention of rebleeding / Brigitte Bernard-Chabert [and others] -- Noncirrhotic portal hypertension / Dominique-Charles Valla [and others] -- Quality of randomised clinical trials in portal hypertension and other fields of hepatology / Christian Gluud, Sarah Louise Klingenberg, and Lise Lotte Gluud -- Value and limits of evidence-based medicine / Luigi Pagliaro -- Providing scientific evidence : RCTs and beyond / Thorkild I.A. Sørensen [and others] |
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What have we accomplished (and what lies ahead) / Roberto de Franchis -- Definition of key events : last attempt? / Andrew K. Burroughs [and others] -- Abnormalities of haemostasis tests in chronic liver disease : clinically relevant? / Pier Mannuccio Mannucci -- Predictive models in portal hypertension / Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao [and others] -- Prevention of the formation of varices (pre-primary prophylaxis) / Roberto J. Groszmann [and others] -- Pulmonary vascular complications of liver disease : implications for diagnosis and treatment of portal hypertension / Michael B. Fallon -- Primary prophylaxis for variceal bleeding / Norman D. Grace [and others] |
| Summary |
This book includes the latest recommendations for diagnosis and management of portal hypertension. This book presents the proceedings from the 'Baveno IV International Consensus Workshop: Methodology of diagnosis and treatment in portal hypertension' which was held on April 28-29, 2005 in Baveno, Italy. These meetings are important to raise awareness of difficulties and defining some key events related to portal hypertension and variceal bleeding. They also help to produce guidelines aimed at improving trials conducted in this field. Since the Baveno III meeting, new diagnostic tools, new drugs and new treatment strategies for portal hypertension have been developed. Therefore this book updates recommendations for diagnosis and management. It includes up to date evidence from the workshop on pathophysiology, natural history, methods of evaluation and established treatments of portal hypertension. In addition, this books looks at important emerging topics such as the role of coagulation disturbances, portopulmonary hypertension and the hepatopulmonary syndrome, hepato-renal syndrome, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and infections.; This brings clinicians and investigators up to date with current evidence and helps to inform treatment decisions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Portal hypertension -- Congresses.
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Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.
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Hypertension, Portal.
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Liver Diseases.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
De Franchis, Roberto.
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470988835 |
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1280748737 |
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1405173122 |
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9780470988831 |
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9781280748738 |
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9781405173124 |
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