Publication Year: 2007
Edition: 1st
Authors/Editor: Cheng, Mingliang; Yang, Changqing
Publisher: People's Medical Publishing House
ISBN: 978-7-11-709192-3
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score: 50A valuable guide for physicians and basic researchers to prevent and treat hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis, especially at the early stage of the diseases
With contributions from 16 Chinese hepatologists, this book highlights important advances in worldwide hepatic fibrosis researches in recent years, and covers from pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis, etiology, pathology, molecular biology, biomarkers, clinical features, diagnosis, pharmacology, to treatment and prevention of hepatic fibrosis, including the use of integrative traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine therapies. The contents are comprehensive, novel, and provide a complete understanding of hepatic fibrosis.