1.Assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies -- 2.Acute liver failure -- 3.Acute viral hepatitis -- 4.Chronic viral hepatitis -- 5.Autoimmune hepatitis -- 6.Alcoholic liver disease -- 7.Fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis -- 8.Drug-induced and toxic liver disease -- 9.Cirrhosis and portal hypertension: an overview -- 10.Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal bleeding -- 11.Ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis -- 12.Hepatorenal syndrome -- 13.Hepatic encephalopathy -- 14.Primary biliary cirrhosis -- 15.Primary sclerosing cholangitis -- 16.Hemochromatosis -- 17.Wilson's disease and related disorders -- 18.Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and other metabolic liver diseases -- 19.Budd-Chiari syndrome and other vascular disorders -- 20.The liver in heart failure -- 21.The liver in pregnancy -- 22.The liver in systemic disease -- 23.Pediatric liver disease -- 24.Liver disease in the elderly -- 25.HIV and the liver -- 26.Granulomatous liver disease -- 27.Hepatic tumours -- 28.Hepatic abscesses and cysts -- 29.Other infections involving the liver -- 30.Surgery in the patient with liver disease and postoperative jaundice -- 31.Liver transplantation -- 32.Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis -- 33.Diseases of the bile ducts -- 34.Tumors of the biliary tract.