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Transplantation of the Liver

Author(s): Busuttil & Klintmalm
Edition: 2nd
ISBN10: 0721601189
ISBN13: 9780721601182
Cover: Hardcover
 
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Spearheaded 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 intensive
  • Considers the ethical issues involved in using living donors.
  • Delivers pearls and pitfalls that provide important advice from world-renowned experts.


  • Offers sweeping updates throughout, with contributions from many brand-new authors on the front lines of research and clinical practice.
  • li>Presents the latest information on immunosuppression, focusing on side effects and morbidities associated with the currently available drugs.
  • Covers hot topics such as adult living donor transplantation, including relevant imaging techniques A· liver allocation in the United States and Europe A· Hepatitis C A· outcomes A· management of the necrotic liver A· new immunosupA¬presA¬sive drugs A· the development of a bioartificial liver A· and much more.


With 104 additional contributing experts
I General Considerations
1(92)
History of Liver and Multivisceral Transplantation
3(20)
Thomas E. Starzl
Noriko Murase
Amadeo Marcos
John J. Fung
Surgical Anatomy of the Liver
23(20)
John F. Renz
Paulo R. Reichert
Sherylin A. Gordon
Jean C. Emond
Molecular and Cellular Basis of Hepatic Failure
43(14)
Hal F. Yee, Jr.
Timothy J. Davern II
Influence of Liver Transplantation on Liver Surgery
57(6)
Garrett M. Hisatake
Jonathan R. Hiatt
Liver Allocation: The U.S. Model
63(16)
Richard B. Freeman, Jr.
Liver Organ Allocation: The European Models
79(14)
Lars Backman
John L. R. Forsythe
Bianca Miranda
Natividad Cuende
Jose Canon
Carlos Margarit
Till Gerling
Guido G. Persijn
II Patient Evaluation: Adult
93(192)
Current Indications, Contraindications, Delisting Criteria, and Timing for Liver Transplantaion
95(20)
Scott A. Fink
Robert S. Brown, Jr.
Transplantation for Viral Hepatitis A and B
115(14)
Bruno Roche
Didier Samuel
Natural History of Hepatitis C
129(14)
Dawn Sears
Gary L. Davis
Hepatitis C and Liver Transplantation
143(18)
Marina Berenguer
John Lake
Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure
161(16)
Stephen M. Riordan
Roger Williams
Liver Transplantation for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
177(10)
Jayant A. Talwalkar
W. Ray Kim
E. Roland Dickson
Transplantation for Sclerosing Cholangitis
187(8)
Jeffrey S. Crippin
Liver Transplantation for Autoimmune Hepatitis
195(16)
Jose M. Nieto
Sammy Saab
Transplantation for Primary Hepatic Malignancy
211(22)
Marvin J. Stone
J. Mark Fulmer
Goran B. Klintmalm
Liver Transplantation for Metastases of the Liver
233(6)
Ferdinand Muhlbacher
Susanne Rasoul Rockenschaub
Liver Transplantation for Hematological Disorders
239(10)
William D. Tap
Victor J. Marder
Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome
249(16)
Marvin J. Stone
J. Mark Fulmer
Goran B. Klintmalm
Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease
265(10)
Robert M. Weinrieb
Michael R. Lucey
Unusual Indications for Liver Transplantation
275(10)
David H. Van Thiel
Ayse L. Mindikoglu
Anantharaju Abhinandana
Mehdi Baluch
Sonu Dhillon
Magdalene M. George
John Brems
S. David LI
Raza Hamdani
III Patient Evaluation: Pediatric
285(94)
General Criteria for Pediatric Transplantation
287(16)
Estella M. Alonso
Andres Besedovsky
Karan Emerick
Peter F. Whitington
Transplantation for Cholestatic Liver Disease in the Pediatric Patient
303(20)
Byung-Ho Choe
Jorge A. Bezerra
William F. Balistreri
Transplantation for Biliary Atresia
323(14)
Randolph Schaffer III
Lynda Brady
J. Michael Millis
Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease
337(30)
Suzanne V. McDiarmid
Transplantation for Hepatic Malignancy in Children
367(12)
Frederick C. Ryckman
Maria H. Alonso
Gregory M. Tiao
Kevin E. Bove
IV Special Considerations in Patient Evaluation
379(134)
Ethical Decisions in Liver Transplantation
381(14)
L. S. Rothenberg
Psychosocial Assessment of Adult Liver Transplant Recipients
395(10)
Sheila Jowsey
Terry Schneekloth
Pretransplantation Evaluation: Pulmonary, Cardiac, and Renal
405(24)
Martin L. Mai
Daniel S. Yip
Cesar A. Keller
Thomas A. Gonwa
Pretransplantation Infectious Disease Screening for Liver Transplantation: Candidates and Donors
429(10)
Marian G. Michaels
Michael D. Green
Clinical Nurse Coordinator: Nursing Focus on Care of Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease
439(8)
Kelly Wicker
Radiologic Evaluation in the Liver Transplant Patient
447(26)
Antoinette S. Gomes
Monitoring and Care of the Patient Before Liver Transplantation
473(18)
Pratima Sharma
Hugo E. Vargas
Jorge Rakela
Nutritional Aspects of Adult Liver Transplantation
491(16)
Jeanette Hasse
Management of Portal Hypertensive Hemorrhage in the Era of Liver Transplantation
507(6)
Sunil K. Geevarghese
Jonathan R. Hiatt
Ronald W. Busuttil
V Operation
513(94)
Donor Selection and Management
515(14)
Constantino Fondevila
Rafik M. Ghobrial
Non-Heart-Beating Donor Liver Transplantation
529(16)
David J. Reich
Cosme Y. Manzarbeitia
The Donor Operation
545(16)
John F. Renz
Hasan Yersiz
Principles of Liver Preservation
561(14)
Steven M. Strasberg
Nazia Selzner
Pierre-Alain Clavien
The Recipient Hepatectomy and Grafting
575(14)
Goran B. Klintmalm
Ronald W. Busuttil
Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation
589(18)
Michael A. E. Ramsay
VI Split and Living Donor Transplantation
607(134)
Split-Liver Transplantation for the Pediatric and Adult Recipient
609(20)
Jean De Ville De Goyet
Xavier Rogiers
Jean-Bernard Otte
Living Related Liver Transplantation in Pediatric Recipients
629(18)
Koichi Tanaka
Yukihiro Inomata
Split-Liver Transplantation for Two Adults
647(8)
Daniel Azoulay
Massimo Del Gaudio
Paula Andreani
Henri Bismuth
Donor and Recipient Evaluation and Selection for Adult-to-Adult Right Hepatic Lobe Liver Transplantation
655(20)
James F. Trotter
Paul H. Hayashi
Igal Kam
Adult Living Donor Hepatectomy and Recipient Operation
675(28)
Sander S. Florman
Charles M. Miller
Imaging Techniques for Living Donor Transplantation
703(10)
Piyaporn Limanond
Steven S. Raman
David S. K. Lu
Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation
713(12)
John F. Renz
Cindy J. Kin
Bob H. Saggi
Jean C. Emond
Ethics of Living Donor Liver Transplantation
725(16)
David C. Cronin II
Mark Siegler
VII Unusual Operative Problems
741(90)
Portal Vein Thrombosis and Other Venous Anomalies in Liver Transplantation
743(12)
Niraj M. Desai
Kim M. Olthoff
Liver Transplantation and Situs Inversus
755(12)
Douglas G. Farmer
Ronald W. Busuttil
Retransplantation
767(10)
Susan M. Lerner
James Markmann
Oded Jurim
Ronald W. Busuttil
Clinical Management of the Necrotic Liver During Transplantation
777(10)
Ernesto P. Molmenti
Paul J. Scheel, Jr.
Transplantation of the Liver with Digestive Organs
787(16)
Tomoaki Kato
Andreas G. Tzakis
Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation
803(12)
Edmund Q. Sanchez
Goran B. Klintmalm
Auxiliary Liver Transplantation
815(16)
Carlos Margarit
VIII Postoperative Care
831(224)
Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Management: Adult Liver Transplant Recipients
833(20)
Henry B. Randall
Goran B. Klintmalm
Postoperative Intensive Care Management in Children
853(12)
Rick Harrison
Postoperative Management Beyond the Intensive Care Unit: Adults
865(16)
Edmund Q. Sanchez
Goran B. Klintmalm
Postoperative Care of Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
881(10)
Steven J. Lobritto
Jean C. Emond
Renal Failure in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients
891(24)
Phuong-Thu T. Pham
Phuong-Chi T. Pham
Alan H. Wilkinson
Graft Failure: Etiology, Recognition, and Treatment
915(14)
Nicholas N. Nissen
Steven D. Colquhoun
Technical Problems: Biliary
929(24)
Peter Neuhaus
Andreas Pascher
Arterial Complications After Liver Transplantation
953(10)
Sherilyn A. Gordon
Ian C. Carmody
Infections After Liver Transplantation
963(32)
Curtis D. Holt
Drew J. Winston
Late Complications of Liver Transplantation and Recurrence of Disease
995(24)
Michael R. Charlton
K. V. Narayanan Menon
Neuropsychiatric Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients
1019(10)
Thomas B. Strouse
Postoperative Neurological Disorders and Prognosis
1029(8)
Edwin C. Amos III
Role of the Posttransplant Coordinator
1037(18)
Gregg Kunder
IX Liver Transplant Pathology
1055(110)
Histological Patterns of Rejection and Other Causes of Liver Dysfunction
1057(72)
Anthony J. Demetris
Mike Nalesnik
Parmjeet Randhawa
Tong Wu Marida Minervini
Chi Lai
Zhengbin Lu
Pathology of Recurrence of Non-Neoplastic Disease After Liver Transplantation
1129(20)
Charles R. Lassman
Transplant-Related Malignancies
1149(16)
Joseph F. Buell
Thomas M. Beebe
Michael J. Hanaway
Mark J. Thomas
Steven M. Rudich
E. Steve Woodle
X Immunology of Liver Transplantation
1165(46)
Rejection After Transplantation
1167(16)
Gerald S. Lipshutz
Nancy L. Ascher
John P. Roberts
Cell Migration, Chimerism, and Graft Acceptance, with Particular Reference to the Liver
1183(16)
Thomas E. Starzl
Noriko Murase
Anthony J. Demetris
Massimo Trucco
Bijan Eghtesad
Paulo Fontes
Kareem Abu-Elmagd
Amadeo Marcos
John J. Fung
ABO, Tissue Typing, and Cross-match Incompatibility in Liver Transplantation
1199(12)
J. Michael Cecka
Elaine F. Reed
XI Immunosuppression
1211(72)
Induction and Maintenance of Immunosuppression
1213(22)
Srinath Chinnakotla
Goran B. Klintmalm
Special Considerations for Pediatric Immunosuppression After Liver Transplantation
1235(28)
Suzanne V. McDiarmid
Treatment of Acute and Chronic Rejection
1263(12)
Ian C. Carmody
Pauline W. Chen
Novel Immunosuppressive Agents
1275(8)
Ryutaro Hirose
Flavio Vincenti
XII Survival and Results
1283(72)
Outcome Predictors in Liver Transplantation
1285(14)
Rafik M. Ghobrial
Goran B. Klintmalm
U.S. Trends in Liver Transplantation, 1988 to 2001
1299(24)
Idris V. R. Evans
Steven H. Belle
Long-Term Functional Recovery and Quality of Life: Childhood, Adulthood, Employment, Pregnancy, and Family Planning
1323(12)
Marlon F. Levy
Terianne Cowling
Goran B. Klintmalm
Results: Survival and Quality of Life After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Children
1335(20)
Carlos O. Esquivel
XIII Future Developments in Liver Transplantation
1355(82)
Genetic Modulation in Transplantation
1357(8)
Heidi Yeh
Abraham Shaked
Xenotransplantation and the Liver
1365(14)
Jeffrey L. Platt
Ira J. Fox
Hepatocyte Transplantation in Liver Disease
1379(8)
Vivek Dixit
New Approaches in Immunosuppression
1387(16)
Martin Hertl
A. Benedict Cosimi
Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury of the Liver
1403(12)
Constantino Fondevila
Ronald W. Busuttil
Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski
Extracorporeal Xenogeneic Liver Support
1415(10)
Ravi S. Chari
William C. Meyers
Marlon F. Levy
Development of Bioartificial Liver
1425(12)
Wing S. Cheung
Joseph P. Vacanti
Index 1437

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