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Second Edition
By
Ronald Busuttil, MD, PhD, Professor and Chief, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Dumont Chair in Transplantation Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Goran Klintmalm, MD, PhD, Chief and Chairman, Baylor Institute of Transplantation; Director, Transplantation Services, Baylor University Medical Center,
Dallas, TX; Director, Dallas Liver Transplant Program, Dallas, TX
Description
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.
Audience
Liver Transplantation Specialists and Fellows, General Surgeons, Liver Specialists, Gastroenterologists, and Health Science Libraries.
Contents
I. General Considerations
1. History of Liver and Other Splanchnic Organ Transplantation
2. Liver Organ Allocation:
The U.S. Model
3. Liver Organ Allocation: The Great Britain and European Models
4. Hepatic Anatomy
5. Hepatic Physiology and
Assessment of Hepatic Function
6. Molecular Biology of the Liver
7. Influence of Liver Transplantation on Liver Surgery
II.
Patient Evaluation: Adult
8. Current Indications, Contraindications and Timing for Liver Transplantation
9. Transplantation
for Viral Hepatitis A & B
10. Transplantation for Hepatitis C
11. Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure
12. Transplantation
for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
13. Transplantation for Sclerosing Cholangitis
14. Liver Transplantation for Autoimmune Chronic Active
Hepatitis
15. Transplantation for Primary Hepatic Malignancy
16. Liver Transplantation for Metastatic Hepatic Malignancy
17.
Liver Transplantation for Hematological Disorders: Hereditary Hemochromatosis, Protophyria, and Coagulation Defects
18. Transplantation
for Budd-Chiari Syndrome
19. Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Cirrhosis
20. Unusual Indications for Liver Transplantation
III.
Patient Evaluation: Pediatric
21. General Criteria for Pediatric Transplantation
22. Transplantation for Cholestatic
Liver Disease
23. Transplantation for Biliary Atresia
24. Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease
25. Transplantation for
Hepatic Malignancy in Children
26. Nutritional Aspects of Pediatric Liver Transplantation
IV. Special Considerations
in Patient Evaluation
27. Ethical Decisions in Liver Transplantation
28. Psychosocial Assessment of Adult Liver Transplant
Recipients
29. Pretransplantation Evaluation: Pulmonary, Cardiac, and Renal
30. Pretransplantation Infectious Disease Screening
for Transplantation Candidates
31. Role of the Clinical Nurse Coordinator: Preoperative Care
32. Radiologic Evaluation in the Liver
Trnaplant Patient
33. Monitoring and Care of the Patient Prior to Transplantation
34. Nutritional Aspects of Adult Liver Transplantation
35.
Surgery for Portal Hypertension in the Era of Liver Transplantation
V. The Operation
36. Donor Selection
and Management
37. The Donor Operation
38. Principles of Organ Preservation
39. The Recipient Hepatectomy and Grafting
40.
Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation
VI. Split and Living Donor Transplantation
41. Split Liver Transplantation
for the Pediatric and Adult Recipient
42. Living Related Liver Transplantation in Pediatric Recipients
43. Split Liver Transplantation
for Two Adults
44. Adult Living Donor and Recipient Evaluation and Selection
45. Adult Living Donor Hepatectomy and Recipient Operation
46.
Imaging Techniques in Living Donor Transplantation
47. Outcomes in Living Donor Transplantation
VII. Unusual Operative
Problems
48. Venous Anomalies Including Protal Vein Thrombosis and Prior Portosystemic Shunts
49. Liver Transplantation
and Situs Inversus
50. Retransplantation
51. Clinical Management of Necrotic Liver During Transplantation Surgery
52. Transplantation
of the Liver With Digestive Organs
53. Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation
54. Auxiliary Transplants
VIII. Postoperative
Care
55. Postoperative Intensive Care Management
56. Postoperative Intensive Care Management: Children
57. Postoperative
Care Management: Adults
58. Postoperative Care Management: Children
59. Renal Failure in the Adult Transplant Recipient
60.
Graft Failure: Cause, Etiology, Recognition and Treatment
61. Technical Problems: Biliary
62. Technical Problems: Vascular
63.
Infections After Liver Transplantation
64. Late Onset Complications and Recurrent Non-Malignant Disease
65. Neuropsychiatric Outcomes
in Liver Transplantation
66. Transplantation of the Liver: Postoperative Neurological Disorders and Prognosis
67. Role of the Posttransplantation
Coordinator
IX. Liver Transplant Pathology
68. Histological Patterns of Rejection and Other Causes of
Liver Dysfunction
69. Pathology of Recurrence of Non-Neoplastic Disease After Liver Transplantation
70. Posttransplantation De
Novo Malignancies
X. Immunology of Liver Transplantation
71. Rejection After Transplantation
72. Cell
Migration, Chimerism, and Graft Acceptance, With Particular Reference To the Liver
73. ABO, Tissue Typing, and Crossmatching Incompatibility
in Liver Transplantation
XI. Immunosuppression
74. Induction and Maintenance of Immunosuppression
75.
Special Considerations for Pediatric Immunosuppression After Liver Transplantation
76. Treatment of Acute and Chronic Rejection
77.
New Immunosuppressive Drugs
XII. Survival and Results
78. Preoperative Predictors of Outcome in Liver
Transplantation: Models for Defining High-Risk Recipients
79. Overall National Results of Liver Transplantation Between 1987 and 2000
80.
Long-Term Functional Recovery and Quality of Life
81. Results: Survival and Quality of Life After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
in Children
XIII. Future Developments in Liver Transplantation
82. Gene Therapy in Transplantation
83.
Xenotransplantation
84. Hepatocyte Transplantation
85. New Approaches in Immunosuppression
86. Ischemia Reperfusion Injury of
the Liver
87. Extracorporeal Xenogeneic Liver Support
88. Development of Bio Artificial Liver
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 1520 pages, publication date: JUL-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-0118-2
ISBN-10: 0-7216-0118-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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