The rapid and exciting developments in hepatology in recent years make an innovative and comprehensive textbook of clinical hepatology very welcome. The editors, who are themselves international authorities in the field, have assembled an impressive array of multinational hepatological talent to compile their comprehensive textbook of clinical hepatology. It is a pleasure to read a textbook where each of the chapters is written by an authority in the field. One problem of such multiauthor books can be the often jarring changes in style between different contributors, but the editors of this book are to be …