Clinical Liver Disease Diagnosis and Management: Pathophysiology, Serological Markers, Portal Hypertension in the MASLD Era — An Evidence-Based Guide for Gastroenterology Residents

MASLD has quietly overtaken viral hepatitis as the most common reason a patient walks into your clinic with an abnormal liver panel. Do you know how to work it up - and everything else that follows once the panel comes back wrong?Clinical Liver Disease Diagnosis and Management is a complete, evidence-based guide built for gastroenterology residents and the clinicians working alongside them. It follows a single clear arc across nineteen chapters and seven parts: from the anatomy and serology that make sense of any liver panel, through every major cause of liver disease, to the shared endpoint - cirrhosis and its complications - that so many of those causes eventually reach.Inside, you'll find: - A diagnostic framework that actually transfers - the R-factor pattern, combined-evidence serological reasoning, and functional hepatic reserve, applied consistently from Chapter 1 to Chapter 19, so a presentation you've never specifically studied still yields to reasoning you already know cold- Every major disease category - viral hepatitis A through E, MASLD and alcohol-related disease, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, drug-induced injury, hereditary haemochromatosis, Wilson disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and vascular causes including Budd-Chiari syndrome- The complications that define advanced disease - portal hypertension, variceal bleeding, ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatorenal syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, and both acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure- Malignancy and transplantation - HCC surveillance, LI-RADS and BCLC staging, the Milan Criteria, MELD-based allocation, and the full multi-domain transplant evaluation- Special populations - pregnancy-specific liver disease, pediatric and elderly considerations, and HIV co-infection- The practice of hepatology itself - referral urgency, collaboration, quality processes, and calibrated, honest patient communication- Every chapter follows a Claim → Evidence → Explanation → Implication structure, with real case studies, quick-reference tables, a glossary, and a full index. Nothing is padded. Nothing is thin.If you want to actually understand the liver - not just memorize facts about it - scroll up and grab your copy today.