Overview
Provides updated knowledge and perspectives on viral hepatitis in children
Covers infancy and childhood
Helps doctors in both daily practice and setting future direction to eradicate viral hepatitis
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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About this book
This book is aimed to emphasize the rationale and importance of prevention and management of viral hepatitis in children, providing cutting edge knowledge. Viral hepatitis is a major health problem in the world. Although most complications of viral hepatitis are observed in adults, primary infection with hepatitis viruses often occurs during infancy or childhood. To better control viral hepatitis, prevention and therapy if possible should be started in childhood.
This book offers updated and unique information about viral hepatitis in children, which has vitally important impact on global disease outcome and control, yet not discussed as frequently as viral hepatitis in adults in previous medical literature. Better prevention and management strategies are covered, starting from infancy and childhood, and even earlier during fetal life. It will be very helpful for better control of viral hepatitis both for daily practice and for developing future strategies and directions. If we can successfully control viral hepatitis in children, there will be very little remaining chronic hepatitis and related complications such as liver cirrhosis or hepatoma in adults. We hope readers, including medical students, researchers, pediatricians, family medicine physicians, infectious disease personnel, public health workers, gastroenterologists, hepatologists and parents of children with chronic hepatitis, will be benefited by reading this book.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mei-Hwei Chang is a distinguished chair professor of the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Kathleen B. Schwarz is a professor emerita of the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Viral Hepatitis in Children
Book Subtitle: Prevention and Management
Editors: Mei-Hwei Chang, Kathleen B. Schwarz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0050-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0049-3Published: 24 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0050-9Published: 15 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 227
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics