Overview
- Features new data about risk factors, the natural history of, and the epidemiology and genetics of PSC
- Provides a comprehensive overview on current and future therapies for PSC
- Written by experts in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This text provides a state-of-the art review of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). The volume focuses on new data about risk factors for PSC, its natural history of the disease, and the epidemiology and genetics of PSC, while providing a comprehensive overview on current and future therapies for PSC, management of cholangiocarcinoma, and other hepatobiliary malignancies. It also touches upon up-to-date surgical and endoscopic management, including liver transplantation- both deceased donor and living related liver transplantation.
Written by experts in the field, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Current Understanding, Management, and Future Developments is a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in biliary liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and liver transplantation.
Written by experts in the field, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Current Understanding, Management, and Future Developments is a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in biliary liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and liver transplantation.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lisa M. Forman, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director
University of Colorado
Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology
Aurora, CO
USA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director
University of Colorado
Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology
Aurora, CO
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Book Subtitle: Current Understanding, Management, and Future Developments
Editors: Lisa M. Forman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40908-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40906-1Published: 18 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82214-3Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40908-5Published: 12 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gastroenterology, Hepatology