Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient.

Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient.

This book builds on the success of previous editions, once again providing hepatologists the most current clinical guide on how to best treat the liver transplant recipient. With an international mix of experienced contributors, this new edition highlights initial indication and selection of the pot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clavien, Pierre-Alain
Other Authors: Trotter, James F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Liver > Transplantation.
Preoperative care.
Postoperative care.
Liver > Transplantation
Postoperative care
Preoperative care
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Table of Contents:
  • Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient, 4th edition; Contents; Contributors; Preface; PART ONE: Management of the Potential Transplant Recipient; 1: Selection and evaluation of the recipient (including retransplantation); 2: Monitoring the patient awaiting liver transplantation; 3: Management of portal hypertension; 4: Management of renal disease in the liver transplant candidate; 5: Management of hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension; 6: Psychiatric and substance abuse evaluation of the potential liver transplant recipient.
  • 7: Organ allocation in liver transplantation: ethics, organ supply, and evidence-based practice8: Viral hepatitis and transplantation; 9: Metabolic liver diseases; 10: Cholestatic and autoimmune liver disease; 11: Hepatocellular carcinoma; 12: Cholangiocarcinoma; 13: Rare indications for liver transplantation; 14 Liver Transplantation in HIV patients; 15: Living-donor liver transplantation; 16: Fulminant hepatic failure; PART TWO: Donor Issues and Management in the Perioperative Period; 17: Extended-criteria donor; 18: Liver transplantation using donors after cardiac death.
  • 19: Transmission of malignancies and infection through donor organs20: The transplant operation; 21: Difficult surgical patients; 22: Domino and split-liver transplantation; 23: Surgical aspects of living-donor transplantation; 24: Anesthesia; 25: Coagulation and blood transfusion management; 26: Critical care of the liver transplant recipient; 27: Rejection and immunosuppression trends in liver transplantation; 28: Vascular complications after liver transplantation; 29: Biliary complications following liver transplantation; 30: Role of histopathology.
  • PART THREE: Chronic Problems in the Transplant Recipient31: Medical problems after liver transplantation; 32: Prevention and treatment of recurrent HBV and HCV infection; 33: Recurrence of the original disease; 34: Infections in the liver transplant recipient; 35: Cutaneous diseases in liver transplant recipients; 36: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder and other malignancies after liver transplantation; 37: Sexual function and fertility after liver transplantation; PART FOUR: Pediatric Liver Transplantation; 38: Special considerations in pediatric liver transplantation.
  • Multiple choice questionsAnswers; Index.

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