Clinical Hepatology

1. History of Hepatology.- 2. Differential Diagnosis of Liver Diseases by Enzyme Patterns. A Historical Review.- 3. Functional Dissection of the Diseased Liver.- 4. Hepatic Drug Disposition in Liver Disease: Consequences for Dosage Adjustments.- 5. Biliary Lipids and Gallstone Formation.- 6. Current Concepts on Bilirubin Metabolism and Gilbert's Syndrome.- 7. Protein Synthesis.- 8. The Position of Laparoscopy Among Methods Used in Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Liver Diseases.- 9. The Role of the Gallbladder and the Sphincter of Oddi in the Regulation of Enterohepatic Bile Acid Circulation and Biliary Lipid Secretion.- 10. Cultured Kupffer and Endothelial Cells from Human and Rat Livers - A New Means of Studying Viral Infections of the Liver.- 11. Liver Fibrosis: A Dynamic Process?.- 12. Liver Biopsy.- 13. Ultrastructural Pathology of the Human Liver.- 14. Immune Reactions in Liver Diseases.- 15. Viral Hepatitis - An Update.- 16. Vaccination Against Hepatitis B Virus: Past and Future Problems.- 17. Animal Models in Hepatitis Research.- 18. Present Status of Liver Transplantation.- 19. New Approaches to the Management of Portal Hypertension and Variceal Haemorrhage.- 20. Sclerotherapy of Oesophageal Varices by Means of Fibreendoscopy.- 21. Hepatic Encephalopathy.- 22. Cholestasis: A Problem.- 23. Alcoholic Hepatitis.- 24. Endotoxins and Alcoholic Hepatitis.- 25. Childhood Liver Diseases.- 26. Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- 27. Liver Damage Caused by Environmental Factors.- 28. Clinical Research and Statistics from an Ethical Point of View.- 29. The Development of Methods for Clinical Trials.- 30. Hepatology 2000.