Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major medical challenge because of its increasing prevalence, difficulties in diagnosis, complex pathogenesis, and lack of approved therapies. In the near future, it will become the major form of chronic liver disease in adults and children and the lead...

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description Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major medical challenge because of its increasing prevalence, difficulties in diagnosis, complex pathogenesis, and lack of approved therapies. In the near future, it will become the major form of chronic liver disease in adults and children and the leading indication for liver transplantation. It can be detected by noninvasive and invasive tools, and its treatment depends mainly on lifestyle modification to prevent disease progression and its related sequelae. This book provides information on NAFLD prevalence, etiology, pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters cover such topics as experimental work related to the disease, other diseases related to NAFLD, and noninvasive tools for diagnosis.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-671002024-03-31T22:44:16Z Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Hamdy Gad, Emad Hepatology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJG Endocrinology Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major medical challenge because of its increasing prevalence, difficulties in diagnosis, complex pathogenesis, and lack of approved therapies. In the near future, it will become the major form of chronic liver disease in adults and children and the leading indication for liver transplantation. It can be detected by noninvasive and invasive tools, and its treatment depends mainly on lifestyle modification to prevent disease progression and its related sequelae. This book provides information on NAFLD prevalence, etiology, pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters cover such topics as experimental work related to the disease, other diseases related to NAFLD, and noninvasive tools for diagnosis. 2021-04-20T16:03:11Z 2021-04-20T16:03:11Z 2019 book ONIX_20210420_9781839628702_2459 9781839628702 9781839628696 9781839628719 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/67100 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/8330/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.78459 10.5772/intechopen.78459 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9781839628702 9781839628696 9781839628719 IntechOpen 144 open access
spellingShingle Hepatology
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
title Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
title_full Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
title_fullStr Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
title_full_unstemmed Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
title_short Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
title_sort nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
topic Hepatology
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJG Endocrinology
topic_facet Hepatology
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJG Endocrinology
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