Cholestatic Liver Disease

About this book

A short volume in the Clinical Gastroenterology series, written by Mayo Clinic and other US hepatologists, with ten chapters on the clinical evaluation and management of cholestasis. It opens with the diagnostic approach to cholestasis and drug-induced cholestasis, then covers primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and overlap syndrome with autoimmune hepatitis. Later chapters deal with rare inherited causes, cholestatic variants of viral and alcoholic liver disease, systemic disorders, complications such as pruritus, bone disease and vitamin deficiency, and cholestasis after liver transplantation. It suits trainees and practising gastroenterologists.