Medical care of the liver transplant patient
Subtitle: total pre-, intra- and post-operative management
By: edited by Paul G. Killenberg, Pierre-Alain Clavien, associate editors Alastair Smith, Beat Müllhaupt.
Contributors: Killenberg, Paul G.; Clavien, Pierre-Alain.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9781405130325
Subjects: Liver Transplantation; Patient Selection; Postoperative Care; Preoperative Care; Liver -- Transplantation; Postoperative care; Preoperative care
Other titles: Medical care of the liver transplant patient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Management of the potential transplant recipient. Selection and evaluation of the recipient (including retransplantation) / Don C. Rockey. Monitoring the patient awaiting transplantation / Beat Müllhaupt. Management of portal hypertension and biliary problems prior to transplantation / Nazia Selzner, Janet E. Tuttle-Newhall, and Beat Müllhaupt. Psychosocial evaluation of the potential recipient / Robyn Lewis Claar. Financial considerations / Paul C. Kuo and Rebecca A. Schroeder. Donor organ distribution / Richard B. Freeman, Jr. and Jeffrey Cooper. Viral hepatitis / Paul G. Killenberg. Hepatoma / Maria Varela, Margarita Sala, and M. Jordi Bruix. Alcoholism and alcoholic liver disease / Mark Hudson and Kaushik Agarwal. Primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis (including cholangiocarcinoma), and autoimmune hepatitis / Beat Müllhaupt and Alastair D. Smith. Metabolic diseases / David A. Tendler. Living donor liver transplantation / James F. Trotter and Wesley Kasen. Fulminant hepatic failure / Michael A. Heneghan; title: Management in the perioperative period. The transplant operation / Lucas McCormack, Markus Selzner, and Pierre-Alain Clavien. The difficult surgical patient / Robert J. Porte, Lucas McCormack, and Pierre-Alain Clavien. Surgical aspects of living donor transplantation / Zakiyah Kadry and Pierre-Alain Clavien. Anesthesia / Kerri M. Robertson and Marco Piero Zalunardo. Recovery in the immediate postoperative period / Julie S. Hudson and Judith W. Gentile. Rejection / Bradley H. Collins and Dev M. Desai. Vascular complications / Paul Suhocki, S. Ravi Chari, and Richard L. McCann. Biliary complications following liver transplantation / Lucas McCormack and Peter Bauerfeind. The role of histopathology / Mary K. Washington and M. David N. Howell; title: Chronic medical problems in the transplant recipient. Medical problems after liver transplantation / Eberhard L. Renner and Jean-Franc̦ois Dufour. Recurrence of the original liver disease / Alastair D. Smith. Infections in the transplant recipient / Barbara D. Alexander and Kimberly Hanson. Renal function posttransplant / Stephen R. Smith. Cutaneous diseases in the transplant recipient / Sarah A. Myers and Juan-Carlos Martinez. Productivity and social rehabilitation of the transplant recipient / Karli S. Pontillo; title: Medications. Immunosuppressive medications / Andrew J. Muir. Drug interactions with commonly used immunosuppressive agents / Paul G. Killenberg; title: Pediatric liver transplantation. Special considerations for liver transplantation in children / Martin Burdelski and Xavier Rogiers; title: Liver transplantation in the future. New approaches / Markus Selzner and Leo Bühler.