Transplantation of the liver

The history of liver transplantation -- Surgical anatomy of the liver -- Molecular and cellular basis of liver failure -- Influence of transplantation on liver surgery -- Organ allocation : the U.S. model -- Organ allocation : the European models -- Donation after cardiac or brain death : regulatory and ethical principles -- Current indications, contraindications, delisting criteria, and timing for transplantation -- Transplantation for hepatitis A and B -- Natural history of hepatitis C -- Transplantation for hepatitis C -- Transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure -- Transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis -- Transplantation for sclerosing cholangitis -- Transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis -- Transplantation for primary hepatic malignancy -- Transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma -- Transplantation for metastases -- Transplantation for hematological disorders -- Transplantation for Budd-Chiari syndrome -- Transplantation for alcoholic liver disease -- Transplantation for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis -- Unusual indications for transplantation -- General criteria for transplantation in children -- Transplantation for cholestatic liver disease in children -- Transplantation for biliary atresia in children -- Transplantation for metabolic disease in children -- Transplantation for hepatic malignancy in children -- Ethical decisions in transplantation -- Psychiatric assessment of liver transplant candidates -- Pretransplantation evaluation : cardiac -- Pretransplantation evaluation : renal -- Pretransplantation evaluation : infectious disease -- Role of the clinical nurse coordinator -- Radiological evaluation in transplantation -- Monitoring and care -- Nutritional aspects of transplantation in adults -- Management of portal hypertensive hemorrhage -- Portopulmonary hypertension and hepatopulmonary syndrome -- Donor selection and management -- Extended criteria donors -- Donation after cardiac death -- The donor operation -- Principles of liver preservation -- Recipient hepatectomy and grafting -- Anesthesia for liver transplantation -- Imaging techniques for partial grafting -- Living donor transplantation in children -- Living donor transplantation : evaluation and selection in adults -- Adult living donor right hepatectomy and recipient operation -- Adult living donor left hepatectomy and recipient operation -- Split liver transplantation for pediatric and adult recipients -- Split liver transplantation for two adult recipients -- Biliary and vascular reconstruction in living donor transplantation -- Small-for-size syndrome -- Minimally invasive living donor hepatectomy -- Dual grafts for transplantation -- Outcomes of living donor transplantation : the Western perspective -- Outcomes of living donor transplantation : the Eastern perspective -- Ethics in living donor transplantation -- Arterial reconstruction : pitfalls -- Portal vein thrombosis and other venous anomalies -- Combined liver-kidney transplantation.;Retransplantation -- Clinical management of necrotic liver before and after transplantation -- Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation -- Transplantation : situs inversus and polysplenia syndrome -- Auxiliary transplantation -- Postoperative intensive care management in adults -- Postoperative intensive care management in children -- Postoperative management beyond the intensive care unit : adults -- Postoperative care of pediatric transplant recipients -- Transition of pediatric patients to adulthood -- Renal failure in adults -- Graft failure -- Technical problems : biliary -- Arterial complications after transplantation -- Infections after transplantation -- Recurrent hepatitis C after transplantation -- Late complications and recurrence of disease after transplantation -- Neuropsychiatric complications -- Neurological complications -- Role of the posttransplant clinical nurse coordinator -- Histopathology of liver transplantation -- Pathology of nonneoplastic disease after transplantation -- Transplant-related malignancies -- Rejection after transplantation -- Leukocyte chimerism: meaning and consequences -- ABO, tissue typing, and crossmatch incompatibility -- Graft-versus-host disease -- Induction and maintenance of immunosuppression -- Special considerations for immunosuppression in children -- Treatment of acute and chronic rejection -- Novel immunosuppression in patients with hepatic malignancies -- Novel immunosuppressive drugs -- Immunosuppressive biologic agents -- Long-term toxicity of immunosuppressive therapy -- Outcome predictors in transplantation -- U.S. trends in transplantation -- Long-term functional recovery and quality of life -- Survival and quality of life in children -- Genetic and genomic potential in liver transplantation -- Liver and hepatocyte xenotransplantation -- Stem cells and liver regeneration -- Ischemia-reperfusion injury in liver transplantation -- Extracorporeal perfusion for resuscitation of marginal grafts -- Current clinical status of extracorporeal devices.

Drs. Busuttil and Klintmalm present Transplantation of the Liver, 3rd Edition, which has been thoroughly revised to offer you the latest protocols, surgical approaches, and techniques used in this challenging procedure. Encompassing today's expert knowledge in the field, this medical reference book is an ideal single source for authoritative, up-to-date guidance on every imaginable aspect of liver transplantation. Understand today's full range of transplantation techniques with complete step-by-step descriptions of each, and access the background information and management options for each hepatic disease entity. Take advantage of detailed discussions of everything from pathophysiology and patient and donor selection, to transplantation anesthesia and operative procedures; immunosuppression; postoperative care; and ethical issues.