CLINICAL APPROACH TO LIVER DISEASE
Outlines useful clinical clues to the presence of liver disease that may be elicited from the history and physical examination. Other important information to be obtained includes a history of jaundice or liver disease in family members, recent travel, exposure to individuals or animals with liver disease, sexual promiscuity, use of intravenous drugs, and exposure to alcohol, toxins, or drugs.
- Blood Chemistries
- NONRESPIRATORY FUNCTIONS OF THE LUNG
- Important NEPHROTOXIRIS
- INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
- THE FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES
- Treatment and Prognosis
- PERICARDIAL EFFUSIOH
- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH SUSPECTED OR CONFIRMED ARRHYTHMIAS
- TREATMENT OF MALABSORPTION
- Clinical Presentation
- NONATHEROSCLEROTIC CAUSES OF CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION
- BILIRUBIN METABOLISM
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- PNEUMOTHORAX
- CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
- Diabetes Mellitus (DM)
- Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Host
- OXYGEN
- FACTORS AFFECTING THE RATE OF LOSS OF NEPHRONS
- RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Pulmonary System
- PLEURAL DISEASE
- Specific Etiologies
- THE ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Chronic Interstitial Nephritis
- Ascites
- Miscellaneous
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- Endoscopic “Retrograde” Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- PERIPHERAL VENOUS DISEASE
- MULTIVALVULAR DISEASE
- Amiodarone
- GENERAL SURGERY IN THE PATIENT WITH HEART DISEASE