Liver Elastography
Clinical Use and Interpretation
Editors: Mueller, Sebastian (Ed.)
Free Preview- First book focusing on liver stiffness whose measurement by elastographic techniques has revolutionized diagnosis of fibrosis and liver diseases within the last 10 years
- Gives a comprehensive presentation of all aspects of elastographic techniques – state of the art
- Provides discussion of new applications going beyond liver diseases
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- About this book
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This is the first comprehensive book on the new elastographic techniques discussing the early assessment of liver fibrosis. The book covers all aspects of measuring liver stiffness starting from the methodology, the molecular basis of liver stiffness elevation up to current clinical algorithms and interpretation. Future directions and novel implications that go beyond diagnosis but are relevant for understanding of liver cirrhosis per se are also discussed in detail.
Liver Elastography, is an essential companion for hepatologists and gastroenterologists that provides an overview of its basic principles and gives a detailed account of how to use elastrography in clinical practice.
- About the authors
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Sebastian Mueller is Professor of Medicine and the current vice head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Salem Medical Center and the Co-Director of the Center for Alcohol Research at the University of Heidelberg. He studied medicine in Leipzig, Denver and Strasbourg and obtained a PhD in Biophysics in 1994. He was gastroenterology resident and consultant in Heidelberg, postdoctoral Humboldt fellow at USC in Los Angeles and lecturer at the BIDMC/Harvard Medical School from 2005-2007. Prof. Mueller’s translational research includes the pathophysiology, genetics, diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases, namely alcoholic liver disease. His longterm basic research interests focus on hepatic iron metabolism and redox regulation. Prof. Mueller has published more than 100 original articles. Since 2017, he is president of the European Society of Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA).
- Table of contents (58 chapters)
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Introduction to Liver Stiffness: A Novel Parameter for the Diagnosis of Liver Disease
Pages 3-9
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Liver Stiffness and Its Measurement
Pages 13-28
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Liver Stiffness Measurement Using Vibration-Controlled Transient Elastography
Pages 29-39
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Characterizing Liver Stiffness with Acoustic Radiation Force
Pages 41-49
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Two Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography/Supersonic Shear Imaging
Pages 51-67
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Table of contents (58 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Liver Elastography
- Book Subtitle
- Clinical Use and Interpretation
- Editors
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- Sebastian Mueller
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-40542-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-40542-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-40541-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 737
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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