Hepatology, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tract Diseases Project Outline
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Below is a list of topics for the Hepatology, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tract Diseases Project.
- The list covers adult diseases. Pediatric diseases may be viewed in the Pediatrics Textbook.
- The list does not include oncologic diseases or infectious diseases, which can be viewed in the Oncology and Infectious Diseases Textbooks, respectively.
Outline: Hepatology, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tract Diseases Project
Embryology and Genetics
- Embryology of the Liver
- Embryology of the Gallbladder and the Biliary Tract
- Important Genes of the Liver, the Gallbladder, and the Biliary Tract
Anatomy
- Macroscopic Anatomy of the Liver
- Macroscopic Anatomy of the Gallbladder and the Biliary Tract
- Hepatic Circulation
Histology
- Liver Histology
- Gallbladder and Biliary Tract Histology
Physiology=
- Function of the Liver
- Hepatic Metabolism, Regulation, and Excretion
- Immunology of the Liver
Pathological Diseases
- Laboratory Test Abnormalities in Liver and Biliary Diseases
- Approach to Liver Disease
- Approach to a Patient with Jaundice
- Approach to a Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain
- Cholestasis
- Acute Hepatitis
- Chronic Hepatitis
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Hepatic Cirrhosis
- Fetor Hepaticus
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
Toxin-mediated Liver Injury
- Drug-induced Liver Injury
- Occupational and Environmental Hepatotoxicity
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Amanitin toxicity
- Fatty Liver
Immune Diseases of the Liver
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
Genetic and Metabolic Diseases of the Liver
- Wilson's Disease
- Alpha-1 Antitryprsin Deficiency
- Hemochromatosis
- Galactosemia
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome
- Dubin-Johnson Syndrome
- Gilbert's Syndrome
- Rotor Syndrome
- Glycogen Storage Disease
- Hunter Syndrome
- Hurler Syndrome
- Lucey-Driscoll Syndrome
- Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis
Diseases of the Hepatic Circulation
- Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury to the Liver
- Ischemic Hepatitis
- Budd-Chiari Syndrome
- Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Splenic Vein Thrombosis
- Banti's Syndrome
- Peliosis hepatis
- Portal Hypertension
- Portopulmonary Hypertension
- Pylephlebitis
Other Hepatic Diseases
- Hepatolithiasis
- Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
- Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia
- Transverse Fissure of Liver
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- Zieve's Syndrome
=Diseases of the Gallbladder and Biliary Tract
- Cholelithasis
- Choledocolithiasis
- Biliary atresia
- Biliary Fistula
- Mirizzi's Syndrome
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis