Autoimmune Liver Disease

By: H.P. DIENES

Autoimmune processes in the liver can cause severe damage and destruction leading to cirrhosis and liver failure. The clinical spectrum of autoimmune liver disease is very wide, and diagnostic difficulties often stand at the beginning of the patient's medical career. While in autoimmune hepatitis immunosuppressive therapy has long been shown to be life-saving, therapeutic progress is small in primary biliary cirrhosis and questionable in primary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402028946
• ISBN13: 9781402028946
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"