Alcohol abuse and liver disease

For people with alcohol excess and liver disease, successful management must be two-fold with management of both their psychological/physical addiction to alcohol and their liver disease.℗ Alcohol Abuse and liver disease, with its joint focus on hepatology and psychiatry, provides both hepatologists and psychiatrists of all levels with a practical, concise and didactic guide to the investigation and clinical management of those with alcohol-related problems. Edited by a practicing hepatologist in the UK and a practising specialist in psychiatry/substance abuse in the US, it covers areas suc.

Epidemiology of alcohol use / Ian Gilmore and William Gilmore -- Epidemiology of alcohol related liver disease / Ed Britton and Martin Lombard -- Alcoholism : diagnosis and natural history in the context of medical disease / Thomas P. Beresford, Narin Wongngamnit and Benjamin A. Temple -- Alcohol and other substance misuse / John B. Saunders -- Risk factors for alcohol related liver disease / Stuart Kendrick and Chris Day -- Mechanisms of alcohol toxicity / Guruprasad P. Aithal and Jane I. Grove -- Extra-hepatic manifestations of alcohol excess / Karl-Heinz Schulz, Sandra van Eckert, Daniela Schon and Jens Reimer -- Patterns of alcohol associated liver damage / Peter Hayes and Michael Williams -- Co-factors and alcohol-related liver disease / John G. O'Grady -- Impact of alcohol and liver disease on prescribing / Richard Parker and Amanda Smith -- Psychiatric examination of liver transplant with alcohol use disorders / Robert Weinrieb and Omair Abbasi -- Abnormal liver tests in the context of alcohol excess / James Ferguson -- Biochemical determination of alcohol consumption / Friedrich Martin Wurst, Natasha Thon, Wolfgang Weinmann, Michel Yegles, Jessica Wong, Ulrich W. Preuss --…