Diseases of the Liver and the Bile Ducts Book

	List of Principal Authors
	Preface
1	Proliferation and ductal morphogenesis of bile duct epithelial cells	3
2	Bile duct histopathology in liver diseases	21
3	Stem cell biology and bile ducts	33
4	Cholangiocarcinoma - clinical aspects	36
5	Cholangiocyte physiology - role in bile formation	49
6	Cholangiocyte dysfunction, role in cholestasis	54
7	Dysregulation of cholangiocyte apoptosis by cytokines	64
8	MDR3 deficiency and progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis	73
9	Clinical spectrum of liver disease in CFTR deficiency and cystic fibrosis	78
10	Cholestasis in systemic infection	84
11	Aetiopathogenesis and clinical spectrum of primary biliary cirrhosis	99
12	Pathogenesis and clinical spectrum of primary sclerosing cholangitis	106
13	Immunopathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis: contemporary issues	112
14	Structural features of bile ducts in cholestatic liver diseases	126
15	Drug- and toxin-induced vanishing bile duct disorders	135
16	Fibrosis and bile duct injury	140
17	The pathogenesis of gallstone disease	146
18	Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis	163
19	Magnetic resonance cholangiography in diseases of the bile ducts	168
20	Endoscopic ultrasonography of the biliary system	178
21	Serological tests in cholestatic liver disorders: PSC, PBC, and autoimmune cholangiopathy	183
22	The treatment of primary biliary cirrhosis and other vanishing bile duct syndromes	195
23	Management of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis: medical, interventional	201
24	Therapeutic approaches to complications of cholestasis (pruritus, vitamin deficiency, bone disease)	206
25	Liver transplantation in patients with chronic cholestatic liver diseases - approaches to detection of rejection and its treatment	214
26	Biliary complications after liver transplantation: diagnosis and management	223
27	Treatment of gallstone disease	228
	Index	239