Bile Acids In Hepatobiliary Disease; Editor: Northfield, T. C.; Hardback; Book

Editor: Northfield, T. C.
Hardback; Book
368 pages
Published: January 2000
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
ISBN: 0792387554
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This book is the proceedings of the Falk Workshop on 'Bile Acids in Hepatobiliary Disease', which took place at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in London, UK, on 29-30 March 1999, and was held in association with the Section of Measurement in Medicine at the RSM.The main interest in bile acid therapy has been recently in cholestatic liver disease. The proceedings of the workshop not only discusses this, but moves on to examine its possible use in alcoholic liver disease, and moves back to re-examine its role in biliary disease. Leading world experts attempt to define its mechanism of action, and the current role of other non-surgical treatments in biliary disease. The physiology and pathogenesis of cholestatic and alcoholic liver disease and cholesterol gallstone disease iThis volume contains the proceedings of the Falk Workshop on Bile Acids in Hepatobiliary Disease, which took place at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in London, UK, on 29-30 March 1999, and was held in association with the Section of Measurement in Medicine at the RSM.