Prevenire e curare steatosi, epatite e cirrosi
A book wanted by the volunteers of the Federation Liver Pool-Onlus liver diseases are very common and - despite the prevention, treatment and latest opportunities in the transplant - continue to cause suffering. To understand what can be done to prevent and treat fatty liver, hepatitis and cirrhosis were collected the advice of the most famous doctors, specialists in hepatology or transplant surgery. The voice of patients and families, who gave his life and those who received a transplant, then added the importance of the spirit of solidarity, many times, makes it possible to route care otherwise unthinkable.
In the book, concepts, opinions and suggestions of the specialists in diseases of liver come together to those who experienced the disease on their skin, finding the strength to give a hand to others, to those who are less fortunate, was back. And so the plot virtuous and solidarity between medicine has arrived in Africa, among the people of the desert that does not have the resources to fight poverty and combat the spread of these diseases.
The health of your liver then provides the opportunity to know the potential of modern medicine in the field of liver diseases and transplantation. With simplicity, the authoritative opinions of the experts in this area are flanked by the heat of the testimonies of patients, their families and to humanity volunteers. It allows us to understand how - by practicing healthy lifestyles, applying and extending the clear advice given attention to the needs of others - you can do so much for the health of the liver.
CONTENTS Introduction 9
PREVENTION Prevention is better than cure 13
1 - Epidemiology - Stefano Bellentani 19
2 - Hepatitis and preventive measures - Alfonso Mele 24
3 - Transaminase and early detection - Daniel Meadows
27 4 - Vaccination - Ernesto Vitiello 33
DISEASES AND TREATMENT
Conference in the Sahara 41
5 - The history of hepatology - John 45 Gasbarrini
6 - Hepatitis B - Antonio Craxi
48 7 - Hepatitis C - Massimo Colombo 53
8 - alcoholic liver disease - Antonio Benedetti
9 56 - Alcohol, treatment - Wake Baroni Gianluca
59 10 - steato Steatosis and hepatitis - Giulio Marchesini Reggiani
62 11 - Support for the sick - Ivan Gardini 68
COMPLICATIONS
Living in the desert 77
12 - Heart ascitic - Mauro Bernardi
79 13 - encephalopathy and hemorrhage - Oliviero Riggio
83 14 - variceal hemorrhage - Enrico Ricci 87
15 - Cancer of the liver - Luigi Bolondi
91 16 - Let's give a hand - Michele Forin 96
ASSISTANCE
hospital to Ausserd In: or at home? 103
17 - Acute liver failure - Antonio Ascione 107
18 - In the hospital - 110 Nicola Caporaso
19 - Semi-intensive Care - Stephen G. and Mary Bean
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20 112 - Reorganizing care - 115 Raffaele Bruno
21 - And the children? - Matilde Marcellini
118 22 - In America - Mario Strazzabosco
122 23 - In the Global South - Claudio Puoti
128 24 - Among the sick - Salvatore Camiole 132
TRANSPLANTATION
More than 139 life
25 - History - Louis Rainero Fassati
141 26 - liver cell therapies and artificial - Antonio Gasbarrini
145 27 - Indications and limits - Mario Angelico
149 28 - Liver transplantation - Umberto Cillo
154 29 - Random Hearts - Antonio Daniele Pinna
163 30 - From the donation Transplantation - Alessandro Nanni Costa 167
31 - Trapianti e polemiche - Pierluigi Toniutto 175
LA DONAZIONE
Presos 181
32 - Mia figlia ha donato - Aureliana Iacoboni Russo 183
33 - Ringrazio per un dono - Sofia Riccaboni 187
34 - Il fegato che viene dal cuore - Giampiero Maccioni 189
35 - La cultura della donazione - Giovanni Santoro 194
36 - Sport e trapianto - Federico Finozzi 198
Conclusione 203
Glossario 205
Ringraziamenti 217
L'autore: Salvatore Ricca Rosellini (1955) è medico epatologo dell’Ospedale di Forlì, specialista in gastroenterologia, medicina interna e geriatria. Fondatore e presidente dell’Associazione forlivese per le malattie del fegato, è President of the Liver Pool-Onlus, the national association of voluntary associations for liver disease and liver transplantation. Author of numerous scientific papers and monographs, several instruments, has organized dozens of courses and conferences on topics of medicine, diseases of the liver and the voluntary sector. Repeated trips through the Algerian Sahara has promoted several projects to counter the spread of viral hepatitis in the Saharawi refugee camps of Tindouf.
S. Ricca Rosellini.
The health of your liver. Prevent and treat fatty liver, hepatitis and cirrhosis . Sugarco, 2010, 224 pages. € 16.00.
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