Liver Disease in Children

Part I: 1. Embryology and development of the liver Ken Zaret; 2. Functional development of the liver Saul J. Karpen and Frederick J. Suchy; 3. Mechanisms of cholestasis Saul Karpen and Frederick J. Suchy; 4. The cholangiopathies V. J. Desmet and Tania Roskams; 5. Fulminant hepatic failure in children Peter F. Whitington and Philip Squires; 6. Cirrhosis and chronic liver failure in children Ronald E. Kleinman; 7. Portal hypertension Benjamin Shneider; 8. Laboratory assessment of liver function and injury in children Vicky Ng; Part II: 9. Approach to the infant with cholestasis Frederick Suchy; 10. Medical and nutritional management of cholestasis Drew Feranchak and Ronald J. Sokol; 11. Neonatal hepatitis and congenital infections Philip Rosenthal; 12. Biliary atresia and other disorders of the extrahepatic bile ducts Fred Ryckman, Jorge Bezerra and William Balistreri; 13. Neonatal jaundice and disorders of bilirubin metabolism Glenn R. Gourley; 14. Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis Benjamin Shneider and Frederick Suchy; 15. Alagille syndrome David Piccoli and Nancy Spinner; 16. Diseases of the gallbladder James Heubi; Part III: 17. Acute and chronic viral hepatitis William F. Balistreri; 18. Autoimmune hepatitis Giorgina Meili-Vergani; 19. Sclerosing cholangitis William F. Balistreri; 20. Drug and toxin-induced liver disease Eve Roberts; 21. Immune deficiency and the liver Dino Hadzic; Part IV: 22. Laboratory diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism Piero Rinaldo; 23. Alpha1antitrypsin deficiency David Perlmutter; 24. The liver and biliary tract in cystic fibrosis Drew Frenanchak; 25. Inborn errors of carbohydrate metabolism Fayez K. Ghishan; 26. Disorders of copper metabolism Ronald J. Sokol; 27. Disorders of iron metabolism Michael Narkewicz and Alex Knisely; 28. Porphyrins and porphyria Robert Desnick; 29. Tyrosinemia Grant Mitchell; 30. The lysosomal storage diseases Gregory Grabowski; 31. Disorders of bile acid metabolism Kenneth Setchell; 32. Inborn errors of fatty acid oxidation Jamal Ibdah; 33. Mitochondrial hepatopathies Ronald Sokol; 34. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Jeffrey Swimmer; 35. Perioxisomal disorders Paul Watkins and Kathleen Schwartz; 36. Disorders of the urea cycle Mark Batshaw and Mendel Tuchman; Part V: 37. Bacterial, parasitic and fungal infections of the liver Donald Novak; 38. Systemic disease and the liver John Bucuvalas and Michael K. Farrell; 39. Fibrocystic liver disease Maureen Jonas and Antonio Perez-Atayde; 40. Hepatic tumors in children Milton Finegold; 41. Liver transplantation Frederick C. Ryckman, Maria Alonso, John Bucuvalas, and William Balistreri.