Presents an overview of the molecular pathology of liver disease. This book discusses the clinical inference which the scientific information entails for diagnosis, management and therapy.

This approach is expected to ease the readers' endeavour to connect basic to clinical science and to facilitate appreciation of the enormous progress but also the inherent limitations and arising questions which modern molecular biology has brought to clinical medicine.

Introduction
R. Schmid. Part 1 Viral Hepatitis: 1. Hepatitis A and E: Molecular Biology
R.H. Purcell, S.U. Emerson. 2. Hepatitis B Viral Variants
J.R. Wands, et al. 3. The Natural History of Chronic Viral Hepatitis Type B and D
M. Rizzetto. 4. Hepatitis C Virus: Molecular Biology and Genetic Variability
C. Brechot. 5. Hepatitis C: Epidemiology and Clinical Course
H.J. Alter. 6. Hepatitis C: Diagnosis and Therapy
A. Alberti, et al. Part 2 Biliary Liver Diseases: 7. Molecular Pathogenesis of Cholestasis
J.L. Boyer. 8. Biliary Liver Diseases: Diagnosis, Natural Course and Therapy
G. Paumgartner, U. Beuers. Part 3 Toxic Liver Diseases: 9. Pathogenesis and Natural Course of Alcoholic Liver Disease
C.S. Lieber. 10. Therapy of Alcoholic Liver Disease
C. Oneta, et al. 11. Importance of Drug Metabolism for Drug Toxicity
U.A. Meyer. 12. Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity: Clinical Presentation, Pathogenesis, Risk Factors, Diagnosis and Treatment
S. Krahenbuhl, N. Kaplowitz. Part 4 Metabolic Liver Diseases: 13. Molecular Pathogenesis of Hemochromatosis
C. Camaschella, et al. 14. Hemochromatosis - Recent Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects
P. Brissot, et al. 15. Wilson's Disease: Molecular Pathogenesis
T.C. Gilliam. 17. Molecular Pathogenesis of Hepatic Acute Porphyrias
B. Grandchamp, et al. 18. The Clinical Diagnosis, Prevention and Management of the Hepatic Porphyrias
R.J. Hift, et al. 19. Molecular Pathogenesis of Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
D.H. Perlmutter. 20. Diagnosis, Clinical Course and Therapy of Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
J. Carlson. Part 5 Autoimmune Hepatitis: 21. Viruses and Autoimmunity: Hepatitis as a Model. International Hans Popper Award Lecture 1995
M.P. Manns. 22. Molecular Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Hepatitis
M.P. Manns. 23. Autoimmune Hepatitis Diagnosis, Natural Course and Therapy
I.G. McFarlane. Part 6 Fulminant Liver Failure: 24. Molecular Biology of Cell Damage and Death
V.J. Desmet. 25. Clinical Management of Fulminant Hepatic Failure
R. Williams. 26. Fulminant Liver Failure: Prediction of Outcome
G. Grimm, et al. 27. Liver Transplantation in Fulminant Liver Failure
B. Launois, et al. Part 7 Liver Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: 28. Molecular Fibrogenesis in Liver Injury
S.L. Friedman. 29. Liver Regeneration and the Pathogenesis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
N. Fausto. 30. Risk Factors and Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
M. Colombo. 31. Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Medical and Interventional Therapy
M.C. Kew. 32. Surgical Therapy in Europe of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Cirrhosis
H. Bismuth, J.S. Raccuia. 33. Surgical Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in China
Z.Y. Tang.