Love Your Liver - January 2018

The British Liver Trust first launched the “Love your Liver” campaign back in 2012 as a way to raise awareness, promote good liver health and offer practical advice to the public on reducing risk factors. The campaign includes community-based Love Your Liver screening and scanning events, supported by liver doctors and nurses from local hospitals, an online liver health screening tool and media work to highlight the issues.

For more information surrounding Liver health and please visit The British Liver Trust and NHS Choices websites: https://www.britishlivertrust.org.uk/our-work/love-your-liver/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/liver-disease/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of, and supporting those who suffer from, a variety liver conditions - the health libraries at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS

·      Liver disorders / by Thomas Mahl John O'Grady (Abingdon: Health, 2006) Also available as an ebook.

·      Liver disorders in childhood / by Alex P. Mowat, 4^th edition (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994).

·      Liver and pancreatobiliary surgery with liver transplantation / by Robert P. Sutcliffe Nigel Heaton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

·      Liver diseases : an essential guide for nurses and healthcare professionals / by Suzanne Sargent (Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) Also available as an ebook.

·      ABC of liver, pancreas and gall bladder / by I. J Beckingham (London: BMJ Books, 2001) Also available as an ebook.

·      Hepatology : clinical cases uncovered / by Kathryn Nash Indra Neil Guha (Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

·      Diseases of the liver and biliary system in children / by Deirdre A. Kelly, 3^rd edition (Malden, Mass : Blackwell, 2008).

·      Liver and biliary disease / by Nicholas Joseph Talley; Keith D Lindor; Hugo E Vargas (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Also available as an ebook.

·      Current diagnosis & treatment. Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Endoscopy / by Norton J Greenberger; R. S Blumberg; Robert Burakoff, 3rd edition (New York : McGraw-Hill Education, 2016).

JOURNALS

·      Liver International (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Munksgaard) [formally: ‘Liver’ up to 2002]. Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, and NHS ejournal 2000 onwards with 1 year embargo.

·      Hepatitis monthly (Tehran, Iran : Kowsar Medical Pub. Co.). Available as a Keele ejournal 2008 onwards, and NHS ejournal 2010 onwards.

·      Digestive and liver disease (Roma, Italy : Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana). Available as a Keele ejournal 2008 onwards, and NHS ejournal 2007 onwards.

·      American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology (Roma, Italy : Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana). Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1997 onwards with 1 year embargo.

·      Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences (Tokyo : Wiley Japan). Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards.

·      Hepatic medicine : evidence and research (Auckland, NZ : Dove Medical Press). Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2009 onwards.

·      Gut and liver (Korea: Korean Society of Gastroenterology et al.)  Available as a NHS ejournal 2007 onwards.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

·      Morisco, Filomena  and Paola Vitaglione et al, “Foods and liver health”, Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2008, Vol. 29(1) pp.144-150. [Available via Keele ejournals].

·      Petta, Salvatore and Giulio Marchesini, “Coffee and tea breaks for liver health”, Journal of Hepatology, 2017, Vol.67(2) pp.221-223. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

·      Fung, James and Cheuk-Kwong Lee et al, “High prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the Chinese - results from the Hong Kong liver health census”, Liver international, February 2015, Vol. 35(2), pp.542-549. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

·      Khiati, Salim and Simone A Baechler et al, “Lack of mitochondrial topoisomerase I (TOP1mt) impairs liver regeneration”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015, Vol. 112(36) pp.11282-11287. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

·      Gulyayev, A. and Z. Shulgau et al, “Cytisin Amidophosphate – Promising Role for The Liver Treatment”, Clinical Therapeutics, 2015, 37(8), p.66. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

·      Cheng, K.C. et al, “Association of different types of liver disease with demographic and clinical factors.”, BioMedicine, 2016, Vol.6(3), pp.16-22. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

·      Schonfeld, E.A. and R.S. Brown, “Genetic Testing in Liver Disease: What to Order, in Whom, and When.”, Clinics in Liver Disease, 2017, Vol,21(4), pp.673-689. [Available via NHS ejournals].

·      Cheung, A. and J. Levitsky, “Follow-up of the Post-Liver Transplantation Patient: A Primer for the Practicing Gastroenterologist.”, Clinics in Liver Disease, 2017, Vol.21(4), pp.793-813. [Available via NHS ejournals].

PATIENT INFORMATION/ PATIENT ADVICE

·      Liver disease - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Patient%20Decision%20Aids%22]},{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=%22liver+disease%22

·      Liver disorder - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Patient%20Decision%20Aids%22]},{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&pa=3&q=%22liver+disorder%22

·      NHS Choices – Liver disease https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/liver-disease/

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