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A comprehensive, empathetic guide for anyone suffering from this serious liver disease

Approximately 4 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, a viral liver disease that is treatable but not curable. It accounts for more than 40 percent of U.S. liver disease deaths–about 8,000 to 10,000 people annually–and is the most common reason for liver transplantation. This compassionate guide explains how hepatitis C affects the liver and the body and provides solid advice on today’s treatment options–from drugs (and their side effects) to transplants and alternative therapies–as well as tips on dealing with the emotional and financial burdens the disease brings with it.

Nina L Paul, PhD (New York, NY) earned her doctorate in infectious disease epidemiology and immunology from Yale University. She has researched viruses (human immunodeficiency virus and others) and the immune system..
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This definitive guide explains clearly what Hepatitis C is, outlines the course of the disease and the associated symptoms, and describes how it is transmitted. The author discusses available treatments as well as lifestyle changes that may help. Extensive sections on herbs, vitamins, and nutritional supplements are also included..
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This one-of-a-kind reference provides a comprehensive and practical guide to help you interpret endoscopic biopsies and resection specimens of all organs related to the digestive system. Plus, thanks to Expert Consult, you'll be able to access the entire contents of this title online and download all images, from anywhere there's an internet connection. The more than 2250 high quality illustrations, 30% more than in the first edition, help you recognize and diagnose any tissue sample under the microscope. Five new chapters, additional expert authors, expanded tables, and coverage of the current clinical approach to management and treatment options, particularly screening and surveillance recommendations for preneoplastic disorders, round out this unique reference.

• Acts as a one-stop resource for the entire gastrointestinal system, liver, biliary tract, and pancreas.
  
• Incorporates over 2250 high quality color illustrations so you can recognize and diagnose any tissue sample under the microscope.
  
• Provides all the necessary tools to make a comprehensive diagnostic workup including data from ancillary techniques and molecular findings whenever appropriate.
  
• Simplifies complex topics and streamlines decision-making using extensive tables, graphs, and flowcharts.
  
• Helps you avoid diagnostic errors thanks to practical advice on pitfalls in differential diagnosis.

• Uses a new "road map" at the beginning of each chapter, as well as a new, more clinical focus to help you navigate through the book more quickly.
  
• Reflects the latest classification and staging systems available so you can provide the clinician with the most accurate and up-to-date diagnostic and prognostic indicators, including key molecular aspects of tumor pathology.
  
• Includes access to the entire contents online, from anywhere there's an internet connection.
  
• Adds five new chapters including "Screening and Surveillance of the GI Tract", "Congenital and Developmental Disorders of the GI Tract", "Pediatric Enteropathies of the GI Tract", "Vascular Disorders of the GI Tract", and "Fatty Liver Disease".
  
• Expands appropriate chapters with new coverage of the normal histology of the GI tract, liver, biliary tract and pancreas.
  
• Uses expanded tables to outline specific differential diagnostic points helpful for surgical pathologists.
  
• Discusses the key molecular aspects of tumor progression and risk assessment in all chapters that cover neoplastic disorders.
  
• Helps you evaluate diagnostically challenging cases using diagnostic algorithms.
  
• Increases the number of high quality photographs by at least 30% to include even more normal and abnormal tissue samples.
  
• Updates all chapters to include the latest references, concepts, data, and controversies.
  
• Incorporates expanded coverage of the pancreas and liver, eliminating the need for a separate text.

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued..
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This 2-volume reference, edited by a panel of experts and featuring contributions by many leading authorities, comprehensively covers the cutting edge of research, teaching, and practice in surgery of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas. This resource covers anatomy, pathophysiology, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, diagnosis, and treatment. Richly illustrated, it is accompanied by a DVD with detailed video clips of laproscopic procedures, effectively allowing you to use it as an operative atlas.

• Covers pathology, diagnostics, surgery, and non-operative intervention all in one text, to give you a single, comprehensive reference.
• Offers step-by-step procedures, extensively illustrated with over 200 operative line drawings.



• Provides new coverage of the pancreas, making this the only fully comprehensive text on both hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.
  
• Considers all the new aspects of the rapidly changing area of transplantation.
  
• Shows detailed surgical anatomy to help with diagnosis, surgical operation, interventional radiology, and endoscopy.
  
• Contains detailed, up-to-date diagnostic coverage to keep you abreast of the latest strategies.
  
• Incorporates the latest information on pre- and post-operative care and blood transfusion.
  
• Includes a bonus DVD with video clips of procedures.


Over 200 additional contributing experts..
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Hepatitis C is a disease shrouded in silence and uncertainty, as Cara Bruce and Lisa Montanarelli found when they sought information, advice, and support after their diagnoses They decided to be proactive in their quest to understand and manage their illness—by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors, and networking with other people who have hepatitis C. They now share their experience and knowledge with everyone who has been newly diagnosed. As "patient-experts" on hep C, Bruce and Montanarelli walk you step-by-step through everything you need to do and learn each day of your first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and the following eleven months of the crucial first year.

In clear, concise, accessible language, Bruce and Montanarelli cover a wide range of practical, medical, and lifestyle issues, beginning with coming to terms with the diagnosis and then moving on to subjects including:

§ Strategies for accomplishing necessary lifestyle changes

§ Guidelines and tips for modifying your diet

§ Stress management and exercise

§ Discussing your condition with family, friends, and co-workers

§ Current medical research and medications

§ Handling sexual and social relationships

§ Effective alternative therapies

§ Traveling and socializing

§ Support group resources

By providing reliable, useful, empathetic, and up-to-date information you need to know when you most need to know it, The First Year™—Hepatitis C is a sensitive and invaluable guide for everyone struggling to rebuild their lives after a hepatitis C diagnosis..
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"A decade ago...I fell ill.'Fall' is the appropriate word; it is almost as alarming and quite as precipitous as falling in love."

So begins Inga Clendinnen's beautifully written, revelatory memoir exploring the working of human memory and the construction of the self. In her early fifties, Clendinnen, Australia's award-winning historian of Mayan and Aztec history, was struck with an incurable liver disease, immobilized and forced to give up formal research and teaching. From her sickness comes a striking realization of literacy's protean possibilities: that writing can be a vital refuge from the debilitation of the body, and that the imagination can blossom as the body is enfeebled.

Exiled from both society and the solace of history, and awaiting the mysterious interventions of medical science, Clendinnen begins to write: about her childhood in Australia, her parents, her neighbors, her own history. In addition to recovering half-forgotten stories -- about the town baker and his charming horse, Herbie, about the three elderly, reclusive sisters who let her into their clandestine world -- Clendinnen invents new ones to escape the confines of the hospital, with subjects ranging from the jealousies between sisters to a romantic, Kafkaesque encounter on a train. She also traces the physical, mental and moral impacts of her disease, and voices the terrifying drama of bizarre, vivid drug- and illness-induced hallucinations -- even one she had during her liver transplant.

Along the way, Clendinnen begins to doubt her own memories, remembering things that she knows cannot have happened and realizing that true stories often produce a false picture of the whole. With her gifts for language and observation, Clendinnen deftly explores and maps the obscure terrain that divides history from fiction and truth from memory, as she tries to uncover the relationship between her former selves and the woman she is now. An exquisite hybrid of humorous childhood recollections, masterful fictions and probing history, Tiger's Eye is a uniquely powerful book about how illness can challenge the self -- and how writing can help one define and realize it..
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Complete coverage of diagnosing and treating digestive tract and liver disorders

Edited by the world-renown team at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard University, this new addition to the popular CURRENT series provides you with all you need to know for diagnosing and treating digestive tract and liver disorders.

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy takes an explicitly clinical approach presented in a highly formatted design. Among its most notable features is thorough coverage of endoscopy and liver disorders.

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The most critically acclaimed of all of Dr. Frank H. Netter's works, this fully illustrated single book from the 8-volume/13-book reference collection includes: hundreds of world-renowned illustrations by Frank H. Netter, MD; informative text by recognized medical experts; anatomy, physiology, and pathology; and diagnostic and surgical procedures..
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