DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION

1. Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Staging and Prognosis
2. Liver Biopsy Diagnosis of Cirrhosis
3. Hepatic Venous Pressure Measurement and Other Diagnostic Hepatic Hemodynamic Techniques
4. Endoscopy
5. Non-invasive Serum Markers of Fibrosis
6. Ultrasound Elastography: General and Technical Overview
7. Liver Stiffness by Ultrasound Elastography
8. Spleen Stiffness by Ultrasound Elastography
9. Diagnostic Methods for Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Imaging: Ultrasound and Doppler Ultrasonography
10. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension
11. Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation (SHAPE)
12. Endoscopic Ultrasound and Portal Hypertension
13. Computed Tomography
14. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods for Assessing Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
15. Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Liver
16. Budd-Chiari Syndrome: The Western Perspective
17. Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Inferior Vena Cava Obstruction: The Asian Perspective
18. Extrahepatic Portal Vein Obstruction: Asian and Global Perspective
19. Idiopathic Portal Hypertension (Portosinusoidal Disease)
20. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome) and Liver Vascular Malformations
21. Diagnostic Methods of Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Specifics of the Pediatric Population

This book provides a unique up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the most important diagnostic methods available for assessing liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. The book covers all the significant advances made in the last 10 years in HVPG and biopsy interpretation, imaging and elastography. This is a unique and well structured book authored by senior experts in the field aimed at providing updated knowledge to the hepatology specialist and to the physicians interested in chronic liver disease. The book starts by giving an overview of the disease, outlining the clinical needs in this field; this is followed by detailed information both on the invasive gold-standard methods (HVPG measurement, liver biopsy, endoscopy), and on the standard and emerging non-invasive methods, including serum markers of fibrosis, ultrasound-elastography, magnetic resonance elastography, ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, CT, magnetic resonance and derived methods (dynamic flow assessment).
The final part of the book is devoted to diagnostic tests in non-cirrhotic causes of portal hypertension (Budd-Chiari Syndrome, Portal vein thrombosis, idiopathic portal hypertension, etc), and in pediatric portal hypertension.
Written by a team of worldwide opinion leaders this book pays special attention to the most promising novel non-invasive methods in the field.

Features
• Provides an up-to-date overview of all diagnostic methods that can be used to assess cirrhosis and portal hypertension
• Incorporates a section on diagnostic methods in special situations covering areas of particular interest in India, China, Japan and South East Asia
• Written by a team of worldwide opinion leaders