Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children

„An excellent up-to-date comprehensive and practical textbook dealing with all aspects of paediatric hepatobiliary disease. It will be useful to both generalists and specialists as it isclinically focused with a problem-solving approach and should beuseful for day-to-day as well as more esoteric clinical problems. Ifound it useful in my general paediatric practice and my traineeshave also found it useful. It is very practical with a diagnosticapproach and lots of tables and clinical pathways to follow whenconfronted with day-to-day clinical problems. I have road-tested itin real life with good effect.“ - Judging Panel, 2004 BMAMedical Book Competition Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children, ThirdEdition provides a practical approach to the diagnosis andmanagement of paediatric liver diseases, highlighting theimportance of multidisciplinary team working and holisticmanagement of the child and family. This fully revised edition hasalso been updated to cover recent advances in paediatrichepatology. It includes new chapters describing the effects ofliver disease in pregnancy on mother and child through toadolescence. With increasing numbers of young people surviving intoadult life this edition addresses the importance of managingadolescent transition effectively.
Trainees, practising paediatric gastroenterologists andhepatologists will welcome the practical approach outlined in thistext, while other healthcare professionals involved in themanagement of liver disease in children will find it an accessibleand comprehensive reference.