Viral Hepatitis in Children: Prevention and Management

Description

This book is aimed to emphasize the rationale and importance of prevention and management of viral hepatitis in children, providing cutting edge knowledge. Viral hepatitis is a major health problem in the world. Although most complications of viral hepatitis are observed in adults, primary infection with hepatitis viruses often occurs during infancy or childhood. To better control viral hepatitis, prevention and therapy if possible should be started in childhood. This book offers updated and unique information about viral hepatitis in children, which has vitally important impact on global disease outcome and control, yet not discussed as frequently as viral hepatitis in adults in previous medical literature. Better prevention and management strategies are covered, starting from infancy and childhood, and even earlier during fetal life. It will be very helpful for better control of viral hepatitis both for daily practice and for developing future strategies and directions. If we can successfully control viral hepatitis in children, there will be very little remaining chronic hepatitis and related complications such as liver cirrhosis or hepatoma in adults. We hope readers, including medical students, researchers, pediatricians, family medicine physicians, infectious disease personnel, public health workers, gastroenterologists, hepatologists and parents of children with chronic hepatitis, will be benefited by reading this book. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi The Challenges of Conquering Viral Hepatitis Beginning in Childhood: Introduction of the Rationale and Importance of Controlling Viral Hepatitis Starting from Children (Kathleen B. Schwarz)....Pages 1-10 Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis A and E: A Global View (Kenrad E. Nelson, Brittany L. Kmush)....Pages 11-32 Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis B, C, and D: A Global View (Hwai-I Yang, Mei-Hsuan Lee, Jessica Liu, Hui-Han Hu)....Pages 33-53 Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Viral Hepatitis (Huey-Ling Chen)....Pages 55-69 Viral Hepatitis A in Children: Detection and Management (Palittiya Sintusek, Pattaratida Sa-nguanmoo, Yong Poovorawan)....Pages 71-89 Prevention of Hepatitis A (Daniel Shouval)....Pages 91-102 Natural History of Hepatitis B Virus Infection: From Infancy to Adult Life (Jia-Feng Wu, Yen-Hsuan Ni)....Pages 103-114 Immune Tolerance and Hepatitis B (Michelle Hong, Antonio Bertoletti)....Pages 115-132 Prevention of Viral Hepatitis B and Related Complications (Mei-Hwei Chang)....Pages 133-148 Viral Hepatitis B: Management in Children (Christine K. Lee, Maureen M. Jonas)....Pages 149-156 Natural History of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Children (Nicole Green, Karen F. Murray)....Pages 157-162 Management of Viral Hepatitis C in Children (Björn Fischler, Afrodite Psaros-Einberg)....Pages 163-168 Hepatitis D (Keisha R. Barton, Daniel H. Leung)....Pages 169-182 Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Children (Paul K. Sue, Wikrom Karnsakul)....Pages 183-195 Viral Causes of Acute Liver Failure in Children (Robert H. Squires)....Pages 197-210 Emerging New Therapies for Viral Hepatitis (Pei-Yi Su, Chiaho Shih)....Pages 211-227