Transplantation of the Liver

07This single volume, easy to read text features world experts who provide detailed descriptions of the disease states and complications arising from liver failure as well as the complications that follow liver transplantation. Now completely updated from the first edition, this new edition features . An attractive and necessary read for anyone involved in the care of liver transplant patients, including surgeons, nephrologists, anesthesthiologists, and organ bank personnel.16Spearheaded by two of the world's preeminent experts in liver surgery, the new edition of this landmark masterwork encompasses all of today's best knowledge in the field. It provides detailed discussions of everything from pathophysiology and patient and donor selection through transplantation anesthesia and full range of operative procedures to immunosuppression, postoperative care, and ethical issues. The result is an ideal single source for authoritative, up-to-the-minute guidance on every imaginable aspect of liver transplantation.Discusses the background and available management options for each hepatic disease entity.Addresses anesthesia for liver transplantation oa crucial aspect of successful surgery that is often neglected in other sources.Provides step-by-step descriptions of today's full range of transplantation techniques.Details postoperative care, including intensiveConsiders the ethical issues involved in using living donors.Delivers pearls and pitfalls that provid16e important advice from world-renowned experts.This edition offers sweeping updates throughout, with contributions from many brand-new authors on the front lines of research and clinical practice. It presents the latest information on immunosuppression, focusingon side effects and morbidities associated with the currently available drugs and covers hot topics such as adult living donor transplantation, including relevant imaging techniques, liver allocation in the United States and Europe, Hepatitis C, outcomes, management of the necrotic liver, new immunosup pres sive drugs, the development of a bioartificial liver, and much more.04I. General Considerations1. History of Liver and Other Splanchnic Organ Transplantation2. Liver Organ Allocation: The U.S. Model3. Liver Organ Allocation: The Great Britain and European Models4. Hepatic Anatomy5. Hepatic Physiology and Assessmentof Hepatic Function6. Molecular Biology of the Liver7. Influence of Liver Transplantation on Liver SurgeryII. Patient Evaluation: Adult8. Current Indications, Contraindications and Timing for Liver Transplantation9. Transplantation for Viral Hepatitis A&B10. Transplantation for Hepatitis C11. Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure12. Transplantation for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis13. Transplantation for Sclerosing Cholangitis14. Liver Transplantation for Autoimmune Chronic Active Hepatitis15. Transplantation for Primary Hepatic Malignancy16. Liver Transplantation for Metastatic Hepatic Malignancy17. Liver Transplantation for Hematological Disorders: Hereditary Hemochromatosis, Protophyria, and Coagulation Defects1804. Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome19. Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Cirrhosis20. Unusual Indications for Liver TransplantationIII. Patient Evaluation: Pediatric21. General Criteria for Pediatric Transplantation22. Transplantation for Cholestatic Liver Disease23. Transplantation for Biliary Atresia24. Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease25. Transplantation for Hepatic Malignancy in Children26. Nutritional Aspects of Pediatric Liver TransplantationIV. Special Considerations in Patient Evaluation