Diagnostic Methods for Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

1. Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Staging and Prognosis
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao

Part I. Gold-Standard Invasive Diagnostic Methods

2. Liver Biopsy Diagnosis of Cirrhosis
Zachary D. Goodman

3. Hepatic Venous Pressure Measurement and Other Diagnostic Hepatic Hemodynamic Techniques
Annalisa Berzigotti, Jaime Bosch

4. Endoscopy
Alessandra Dell’Era, Roberto Franchis

Part II. Non-Invasive Diagnostic Methods

5. Non-invasive Serum Markers of Fibrosis
Thomas Pembroke, Giada Sebastiani

6. Ultrasound Elastography: General and Technical Overview
Veronica Salvatore, Fabio Piscaglia

7. Liver Stiffness by Ultrasound Elastography
Laurent Castera

8. Spleen Stiffness by Ultrasound Elastography
Antonio Colecchia, Federico Ravaioli, Giovanni Marasco, Davide Festi

9. Diagnostic Methods for Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Imaging: Ultrasound and Doppler Ultrasonography
Soon Koo Baik, Moon Young Kim

10. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension
Hitoshi Maruyama, Naoya Kato

11. Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation (SHAPE)
Ipshita Gupta, John R. Eisenbrey, Flemming Forsberg

12. Endoscopic Ultrasound and Portal Hypertension
Oriol Sendino, Angels Ginès

13. Computed Tomography
Maxime Ronot, Romain Pommier, Paul Calame, Yvonne Purcell, Valérie Vilgrain

14. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods for Assessing Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
Naaventhan Palaniyappan, Indra Neil Guha, Guruprasad Padur Aithal

15. Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Liver
Sumeet K. Asrani, Jayant A. Talwalkar

Part III. Invasive and Non-Invasive Diagnostic Methods in Special Conditions

16. Budd-Chiari Syndrome: The Western Perspective
Aurélie Plessier, Audrey Payancé, Dominique Valla

17. Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Inferior Vena Cava Obstruction: The Asian Perspective
Qiuhe Wang, Guohong Han

18. Extrahepatic Portal Vein Obstruction: Asian and Global Perspective
Rakhi Maiwall, Shiv Kumar Sarin

19. Idiopathic Portal Hypertension (Portosinusoidal Disease)
Virginia Hernández-Gea, Ernest Belmonte, Angeles García-Criado, Juan Carlos García-Pagán

20. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome) and Liver Vascular Malformations
Elisabetta Buscarini, Guido Manfredi

21. Diagnostic Methods of Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: Specifics of the Pediatric Population
Daniel H. Leung, Milton J. Finegold, Benjamin L. Shneider

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Hepatology, Imaging / Radiology, Pathology