Chronic Hepatitis: Metabolic, Cholestatic, Viral and Autoimmune - Falk Symposium 2007 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: List of principal contributors -- List of chairpersons -- Preface -- Section I. Metabolic and Toxic Hepatitis Chair: / HJF Hodgson, JM Vierling -- 1. NASH: bench to bedside - lessons from animal models / AM Diehl, MF Abdelmalek -- 2. Alcohol-induced hepatitis: pathophysiology and treatment / HK Seitz, P Becker -- 3. Drug-induced hepatitis / N Kaplowitz -- Section II. Cholestatic Hepatitis Chair: / AM Diehl, G Gerken -- 4. Liver disease in pregnancy: diagnosis and treatment / J Kondrackiene, L Kupcinskas -- 5. Geoepidemiology of primary biliary cirrhosis / C Selmi, P Invernizzi, M Zuin, PM Battezzati, ME Gershwin -- 6. Interface hepatitis in primary biliary cirrhosis: prognostic marker and therapeutic target / R. Poupon, L Abenavoli, N Rabahi, Y Chretien, O Chazouilleres, D Wendum, C Corpechot -- Section III. Viral Hepatitis (Part 1) Chair: / G Paumgartner, HC Thomas -- 7. Pathobiology of hepatitis B Virus infection / K Koike -- 8. Individualized treatment of hepatitis C / S Zeuzem -- Section IV. Viral Hepatitis (Part 2) Chair: / P Berk, P Ferenci -- 9. The future in the treatment of hepatitis C / J-M Pawlotsky -- 10. Treatment of interferon non-responder patients with chronic hepatitis C in Asia / M Nishioka -- Section V. Autoimmune Hepatitis Chair: / S Matern, LW Powell -- 11. Update on autoimmune hepatitis / CP Strassburg, MP Manns -- 12. Overlap syndromes / U Leuschner -- Laudatio on the occasion of Professor Gerok's 80th birthday / HE Blum -- 13. Wolfgang Gerok State-of-the-Art Lecture: Pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy / D H&aumlet;ussinger, B G&oumlet;rg, F Schliess -- Section VI. Sequelae of Chronic Hepatitis (Part 1) Chair: KH Meyer zum B&uumlet;schenfelde, J Rodes -- Presentation of the International Dame Sheila Sherlock Award / HE Blum -- 14. Award Lecture: Past, present and future of hepatology / EJL Heathcote -- 15. Progression of chronic hepatitis: from inflammation to fibrosis / M Pinzani -- 16. Treatment of portal hypertension and variceal bleeding / T Sauerbruch, J Heller -- 17. Management of ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis / A Cardenas, J Fernandez, P Gines -- Section VII. Sequelae of Chronic Hepatitis (Part 2) Chair: / W Stremmel, R Williams -- 18. Advances in the pathogenesis and treatment of type 1 and type 2 hepatorenal syndrome / V Arroyo, J Fernandez -- 19. Hepatopulmonary syndrome / MJ Krowka -- 20. Hepatocellular carcinoma / A Forner, C Rodriguez de Lope, M Varela, J Bruix -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This book is the proceedings of Falk Symposium 157, entitled ?Chronic Hepatitis: Metabolic, Cholestatic, Viral and Autoimmune?, held in Freiburg, Germany, on 10--11 October 2006 (one of three symposia during the XIII Falk Liver Week 2006). It provides up-to-date information on new developments in the field of chronic hepatitis and its various entities. In recent decades we have learned how heterogeneous the clinical entity of chronic hepatitis has become. The liver, as the central organ of metabolism and detoxification, is more than ever a target of disease processes evolving from the spread of obesity in the western world. Apart from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), alcoholic liver disease is still the most prevalent liver disease in the west...