Contents: Critical care in acute liver failure / Roger Williams & Julia Wendon -- Definition, pattern of disease and prognosis / William Bernal -- Histopathological basis of syndrome / Alberto Quaglia & Bernard Portmann -- Worldwide differences in acute liver failure / Shalimar, Subrat K. Acharya & William M. Lee -- Investigation and diagnostic pathways / Heather Patton & Robert G. Gish -- Disease-specific treatments / Catherine Paugam-Burtz, Emmanuel Weiss & Richard Moreau -- General supportive management / Alexander Wilmer & Frederik Nevens -- Management of encephalopathy and cerebral edema / Fin Stolze Larsen & Peter Bjerring -- Inflammation, infection and renal failure / Darren G. Craig & Kenneth Simpson -- Acute liver failure coagulation disturbances and need for treatment / Andrew K. Burroughs -- Selection and results of liver transplantation / Sarah A. Hughes & John O'Grady -- Acute liver failure in children / Naresh P. Shanmugam & Anil Dhawan -- Plasmapheresis and extracorporeal liver support / Roger Williams & Julia Wendon -- Index.

With many years of top-level experience in the field, Roger Williams and Julia Wendon have compiled this concise volume, contributing both as editors and as authors, and have invited other contributors on the basis of their important contributions and expertise in ALF. The outcome is a rounded and clearly formatted account of the subject, in thirteen chapters, that will help in obtaining the best possible future care for desperately ill patients.