Liver Transplantation: State of the Art (Gastroenterology)

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The field of liver transplantation has undergone tremendous change and continues to evolve at a fast pace. This book covers topics beyond standard care and discusses issues that are new and rapidly evolving in the field. These include innovative surgical methods to maximize the donor pool, non-surgical methods to expand the existing pool of additional donors, the changing face of liver rejection, and management of infections in the presence of new antivirals.

This book is an interesting read for surgeons, hepatologists, and healthcare workers looking after patients who need or have had a liver transplant.

Contents:

• Preface
• Liver Transplantation for HCC: Moving Beyond Milan (Amit D Tevar)
• Liver Transplantation for Non-HCC Malignancies: Cholangiocarcinoma, Neuroendocrine Tumors, HEHE, and Colorectal Metastases (Daniel Zamora-Valdes and Julie K Heimbach)
• Developments in Donation After Cardiac Death in Liver Transplantation (David P Foley and David J Reich)
• Machine Preservation of Livers for Transplantation (Paulo Fontes, Arjan van der Plaats, Roberto Lopez, Kyle Soltys, Wallis Marsh, Ruy Cruz, Banan Babak, William R Light, and Christopher Hughes)
• Living Donor Hepatectomy: Laparaoscopic and Robotic Techniques (Salvatore Gruttadauria, Giovanni B Vizzini, Duilio Pagano, Bruno G Gridelli, and Angelo Luca)
• Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant: Right Lobe (Young-In Yoon and Dong-Sik Kim)
• Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant: Left Lobe (Hillary J Braun, Garrett R Roll, and John Paul Roberts)
• Pediatric Liver Transplantation with Technical Variant Allografts (Kyle Soltys, Geoff Bond, Rakesh Sindhi, and George Mazariegos)
• ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplant (Abhideep Chaudhary, Prashant Pandey, and Sunil Taneja)
• New Trends in Immunosuppression for Liver Transplantation: Minimization, Avoidance and Withdrawal (Shoko Kimura, Fermin Fontan, and James F Markmann)
• Antibody-Mediation Rejection in Liver Transplantation (James F Trotter)
• Hepatitis C and Liver Transplantation in the Era of New Antiviral Treatments (Elizabeth C Verna and Robert S Brown Jr)
• Obesity in Liver Transplantation (Michele Molinari and Subhashini Ayloo)
• Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease (Patrick McKiernan and Kyle Soltys)
• Fulminant Hepatic Failure: Integrating Devices with Liver Transplantation (Nigel Heaton and Shirin Elizabeth Khorsandi)
• Future Directions in Liver Replacement Therapy: Liver Xenotransplantation (Burcin Ekser and David K C Cooper)

Readership: Hepatologists, and surgeons and nurses in hepatology.

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