Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient

Provides hepatologists with the most up to date clinical assessment book on how to best to monitor and treat the liver transplant recipient, both pre-, during and post-operatively. Each chapter starts with clearly-stated objectives, featuring 5-10 questions aimed at trainees at the end of each chapter. Provides a well-balanced view of medical care & surgical treatments. Includes the very latest information concerning complications of transplantation. Well-balanced authorship of international hepatologists and surgeons, and a well known editor team in both the US and Europe DETAILED CONTENTS Table of Contents List of Contributors. Part 1: Management of the Potential Transplant Recipient. 1 Selection and Evaluation of the Recipient (including retransplantation) (Audrey Coilly and Didier Samuel). 2 Monitoring the Patient Awaiting Transplantation (Andreas Geier and Beat Müllhaupt). 3 Management of Portal Hypertension (Juan Carlos Garcia–Pagan, Juan G. Abraldes and Jaime Bosch). 4 Management of Renal Disease in the Liver Transplant Candidate (Andrés Cárdenas and Pere Ginès). 5 Management of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome and Portopulmonary Hypertension (Victor I. Machicao and Michael B. Fallon). 6 Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Evaluation of the Potential Liver Transplant Recipient (Thomas P. Beresford). 7 Organ Allocation in Liver Transplantation: Ethics, Organ Supply, and Evidence Based Practice (Nicole Siparsky, David Axelrod and Richard B. Freeman). 8 Viral Hepatitis and Transplantation (Geoffrey W. McCaughan). 9 Metabolic Liver Diseases (Maureen M.J. Guichelaar and Michael R. Charlton). 10 Cholestatic and Autoimmune Liver Disease (Ulrich Beuers). 11 Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Maria Reig, Alejandro Forner and Jordi Bruix). 12 Cholangiocarcinoma (Howard C. Masuoka, Gregory J. Gores, Charles B. Rosen). 13 Rare Indications for Liver Transplantation (Stevan A. Gonzalez). 14 HIV Patients (Marion G. Peters and Peter G. Stock). 15 Living Donor Liver Transplantation (Robert S. Brown, Jr.). 16 Fulminant Hepatic Failure (Michael A. Heneghan and William Bernal). Part 2: Donor Issues and Management in the Perioperative Period. 17 Extended Criteria Donor (Ashraf Mohammad El–Badry, Mickael Lesurtel). 18 Liver Transplantation Using Donors after Cardiac Death (Paolo Muiesan, Laura Tariciotti, Chiara Rocha). 19 Transmission of Malignancies and Infection through Donor Organs (Aaron M. Winnick and Lewis Teperman). 20 The Transplant Operation (Christian Oberkofler, Olivier de Rougemont and Philipp Dutkowski). 21 The Difficult Surgical Patients (Philipp Dutkowski, Stefan Breitenstein and Pierre–Alain Clavien). 22 Domino and Split Transplantation (Abhideep Chaudhary and Abhinav Humar). 23 Surgical Aspects of Living Donor Transplantation (Kelvin K.C. Ng and Sheung Tat Fan). 24 Anesthesia (Beatrice Beck–Schimmer). 25 Coagulation and Blood Transfusion Management (Herman G. D. Hendriks, Ton Lisman, Robert J. Porte). 26 Critical Care of the Liver Transplant Recipient (Markus Béchir, Erik Schadde, Philipp Dutkowski). 27 Rejection and Immunosuppression Trends in Liver Transplantation (James F. Trotter). 28 Vascular Complications after Liver Transplantation (Srinath Chinnakotla and Goran Klintmalm). 29 Biliary Complications Following Liver Transplantation (Sanna op den Dries, Robert C. Verdonk, Robert J. Porte). 30 The Role of Histopathology (Achim Weber). Part 3: Chronic Problems in the Transplant Recipient. 31 Medical Problems after Liver Transplantation (Eberhard L. Renner and Marco Puglia). 32 Prevention and Treatment of Recurrent HBV and HCV Infection (Ed Gane). 33 Recurrence of the Original Disease (James Neuberger). 34 Infections in the Organ Transplant Recipient (Nicolas J. Mueller and Jay A. Fishman). 35 Cutaneous Diseases in Liver Transplant Recipients (Sylvie Euvrard and Jean Kanitakis). 36 Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder and Other Malignancies after Liver Transplantation (Natasha Chandok and Kymberly D.S. Watt). 37 Sexual function and fertility after liver transplantation (Andreas Geier and Beat Müllhaupt). Part 4: Pediatric Liver Transplantation. 38 Special Considerations in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (Brandy Ries Lu and Ronald J. Sokol). Index.