The Liver and Systemic Disease

by Norman Gitlin and Norman Gitlin MD FRCP(Lond) FRCPE(Edin) FACP FACG

The liver is prone to the consequences of disease in other parts of the body, such as autoimmune disorders, nutritional disorders, diabetes and infection (malaria, tuberculosis, sepsis, childhood infections). Many diseases, not primarily affecting the liver, manifest themselves as liver problems (jaundice) which really disguise a broader systemic disease. The recognition of the association between dysfunction of the liver and other systems is often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443055467
• ISBN13: 9780443055461
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 9.8"