Clinical Investigation of Portal Hypertension

Part I Pathology of portal hypertension .- 1. Pathology of liver cirrhosis in Japan.- 2. Pathological findings for esophageal varices.- 3. Anatomy of the spleen and pathology of hypersplenism.- 4. Pathology of non-cirrhotic liver disease.- Part II Clinical pathophysiology and diagnosis of portal hypertension.- 5. Mechanism and pathophysiology of portal hypertension.- 6. Mechanism and pathophysiology of bleeding from esophagogastric varices.- 7. Endoscopic diagnosis of esophagogastric varices.- 8. Diagnosis and hemodynamics of ectopic varices.- 9. The role of endoscopic ultrasonography for esophagogastric varices.- 10. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the liver cirrhosis.- 11. Liver and spleen stiffness measurement.- 12. Portal vein hemodynamics: 3DCT .- 13. Portal vein hemodynamics: MR imaging, MR angiography .- 14. Endoscopic varicealography during endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EVIS).- 15. Angiographic evaluation of portal hypertension.- 16. The Baveno VI workshop: European consensus meeting on portal hypertension, and comparison with Japanese guidelines.- Part III Complications of portal hypertension: Gastrointestinal varices.- 17. Conservative treatment : Pharmacological therapy.- 18. Conservative treatment : Balloon tamponade.- 19. Conservative treatment : Nutritional treatment .- 20. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Selection of treatment method.- 21. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Obara method .- 22. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Kitano method.- 23. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Takase method.- 24. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Suzuki method.- 25. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Consolidation method following Ethanolamine oleate/Aethoxysclerol combination therapy.- 26. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Eradicative endoscopic variceal ligation.- 27. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: bimonthly endoscopic variceal ligation .- 28. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Endoscopic variceal ligation using a multi-band ligator.- 29. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Simultaneous combination of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy and endoscopic variceal ligation.- 30. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Combination of endoscopic variceal ligation and endoscopic Injection sclerotherapy.- 31. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Endoscopic variceal ligation followed by argon plasma coagulation.- 32. Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices: Simultaneous combination of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy and endoscopic variceal ligation for prevention of recurrence.- 33. Choice of therapy for gastric variceal bleeding: Results from a cohort study in Japan.- 34. Endoscopic treatment of gastric varices: Histoacryl method.- 35. Endoscopic treatment of gastric varices: a-cyanoacrylate monomer method .- 36. Endoscopic treatment of gastric varices: Indwelling snare method.- 37. Hemodynamics and treatment of ectopicvarices.- 38. Interventional radiology: Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration.- 39. Interventional radiology: Transjugular retrograde obliteration .- 40. Interventional radiology: Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration and transileocolic obliteration.- 41. Interventional radiology : Ttransjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.- 42. Interventional radiology : Partial splenic embolization.- 43. Surgical treatment: Sugiura procedure and Hassab's operation.- 44. Surgical treatment: Selective shunt surgery.- 45. Surgical treatment:Laparoscopic splenectomy .- Part IV Complications of portal hypertension: Portal hypertensive gastroenteropathy.- 46. Diagnosis and endoscopic classification of portal hypertensive gastroenteropathy.- 47. Treatment of portal hypertensive gastroenteropathy.- Part V Complications of portal hypertension: Portal vein thrombosis.- 48. Diagnosis of Portal vein thrombosis.- 49. Treatment of the portal vein thrombosis .- Part VI Complications of portalhypertension: Refractory ascites.- 50. Diagnosis of refractory ascites.- 51. Treatment of refractory ascites.- Part VII Complications of portal hypertension: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis .- 52. Diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis .- 53. Treatment of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis .- Part VIII Complications of portal hypertension:Hepatic encephalopathy.- 54. Diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy.- 55. Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy.- 56. [Column] Portosystemic shuntopathy: This column is the postscript to Chapter 5.- Part IX Aberrant portal hemodynamics.- 57. Idiopathic Portal Hypertension.- 58. Budd-Chiari syndrome .- 59. Extrahepatic Portal Obstruction.- Part XI Portal hypertension and liver transplantation.- 60. Portal hypertension and liver transplantation: Current situation in Japan and overseas.- Part XI Future prospects on portal hypertension.- 61. Future prospects in the treatment of portal hypertension.