Berzigotti Annalisa, Bosch Jaime (eds.) Diagnostic Methods for Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

Springer, 2018. — 337 p.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.Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Staging and Prognosis
Liver Biopsy Diagnosis of Cirrhosis
Hepatic Venous Pressure Measurement and Other Diagnostic Hepatic Hemodynamic Techniques
Endoscopy
Non-invasive Serum Markers of Fibrosis
Ultrasound Elastography: General and Technical Overview
Liver Stiffness by Ultrasound Elastography
Spleen Stiffness by Ultrasound Elastography
Diagnostic Methods for Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Imaging: Ultrasound and Doppler Ultrasonography
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension
Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation (SHAPE)
Endoscopic Ultrasound and Portal Hypertension
Computed Tomography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods for Assessing Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Liver
Budd-Chiari Syndrome: The Western Perspective
Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Inferior Vena Cava Obstruction: The Asian Perspective
Extrahepatic Portal Vein Obstruction: Asian and Global Perspective
Idiopathic Portal Hypertension (Portosinusoidal Disease)
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome) and Liver Vascular Malformations
Diagnostic Methods of Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Specifics of the Pediatric Population