The Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient Evaluation and Management

This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the diagnosis and management of the critically ill cirrhotic patient. The book reviews recent data about risk factors for acute on chronic liver failure (including infection, renal dysfunction and acute alcoholic hepatitis), profiles the latest treatment strategies for the management of variceal bleeding, ascites, hepatocellular carcinoma and presents current and novel therapies for acute hepatic encephalopathy, and anticoagulation in liver disease. The volume also focuses on the changing etiology of liver disease, with an emphasis on obesity and frailty/sarcopenia, and advances in surgical techniques, including living donor liver transplants and gender disparities in liver transplantation. Palliative care for the critically ill liver patient is also discussed in the book.

Written by experts in the field, The Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient: Evaluation and Management is a valuable resource for clinicians, practitioners, health care providers, and researchers who encounter patients with chronic liver disease, including end-stage liver cirrhosis.

1 Epidemiology and Natural History of Chronic Liver Disease

Jamil S. Alsahhar, Saleh Elwir

2 Management of Ascites

Florence Wong 

3 Portosystemic Shunt Embolization in Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy

4 Gastroesophageal Variceal Bleeding Management

Alberto Zanetto, Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao

5 Renal Dysfunction in Patients with Cirrhosis

Claire Francoz, François Durand, Zaid I. Haddad, Kausar Hamiduzzaman, Saro Khemichian, Thin Thin Maw, Yuri S. Genyk, Mitra K. Nadim 

6 Intensive Care Management of Patients with Cirrhosis

Jody C. Olson

7 Infections in Critically Ill Cirrhosis Patients

Jawaid Shaw, Jasmohan S. Bajaj

8 Obesity and the Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient

Tiffany Wu, Vinay Sundaram

9 Frailty and Sarcopenia in the Critically Ill Patient with Cirrhosis 

Ammar Hassan, Elliot B. Tapper 

10 Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis

John P. Rice

11 Acute on Chronic Liver Failure

Mark R. Pedersen, Shannan R. Tujios

12 Anticoagulation in the Hospitalized Patient with Decompensated Cirrhosis: Management of a Delicate Balance

Jessica P.E. Davis, Nicolas M. Intagliata

Robert R. McMillan, Vatche G. Agopian 

14 Liver Transplantation 

Michael Sean Bleszynski, Peter TW Kim

15 Gender Disparities in Liver Transplantation

Trinidad Serrano, Marina Berenguer

16 The Role of Palliative Care in Cirrhosis

Robert L. Fine

Robert S. Rahimi, MD, MSCR

Baylor University Medical Center

Texas A&M Health Science Center

Dallas, TX

USA