General Care of the Liver Patient
Population group Incidence of HCC Surveillance recommended Asian male hepatitis B carriers > age 40 0.4–0.6 %/year Asian female hepatitis B carriers > age 50 0.3–0.6 %/year Hepatitis B…
Viral Hepatitis: Other Viral Hepatides
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Kia Saeian and Reza Shaker (eds.)Liver Disordershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30103-7_12 12. Viral Hepatitis: Other Viral Hepatides Adnan Said1 and Aiman Ghufran2 (1) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, William S. Middleton VAMC, University…
Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis B (& D)
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Kia Saeian and Reza Shaker (eds.)Liver Disordershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30103-7_10 10. Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis B (& D) Tatyana Taranukha1 and Venelin Kounev1 (1) Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA…
Health Maintenance in Liver Disease and Cirrhosis
Vaccinations Brand names Dose Schedule Hepatitis A Havrix Vaqta 1440 EL.U in 1 mL IM 50 U in 1 mL IM 0, 6–12 months Hepatitis B Engerix-B Recombivax HB 20…
What to Do with Tumors in the Liver?
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Incidental Hepatic Lesions
Fig. 4.1 Differential diagnosis of incidental hepatic lesions based on imaging References 1. Reed SL. Amebiasis: An update. Clin Inf Dis. 1992;14:385–91. 2. Chen DS, Sung JL, Sheu JC, Lai…
Operative Strategies
Fig. 13.1 Exposure with Vascular Omni-Flex System (Omni-Tract Surgical; St.Paul, MN) retractor for aortic exposure Fig. 13.2 Division of crural fibers transversely allows identification of the anterior surface of the…
The Epidemiology of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (rAAA)
Fig. 3.1 Age-adjusted rate of mortality from rAAA by year in the US population over 44 years old (From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics:…
Postoperative Complications
Fig. 16.1 Intraoperative photo demonstrating full-thickness serosal changes in ischemic colitis The causes of ischemic colitis are numerous, though the exact etiology of the initial insult is often difficult to…
Pathogenesis of AAA Rupture
and Ronald L. Dalman1 (1) Division of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA Ronald L. Dalman Email: rld@stanford.edu Introduction Mechanisms of abdominal aortic aneurysm degeneration have been the…
