Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient, 4th Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, February 2012, Pages: 490
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 potential recipient, management of the donor organ, post-operative complications in the patient through to acute recovery, long-term follow-up, and continued health. This provides the user a complete guide to the correct clinical management of both the recipient and the donor organ through all stages of transplantation.
Contributors, ix
Preface, xv
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 liver 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 evidencebased 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 and Charles B. Rosen
13 Rare indications for liver transplantation,
Stevan A. Gonzalez
14 Liver transplantation in 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 and Mickael Lesurtel
18 Liver transplantation using donors after cardiac death,
Paolo Muiesan, Laura Tariciotti and Chiara Rocha
19 Transmission of malignancies and infection through donor organs,
Aaron M. Winnick and Lewis Teperman
20 The transplant operation,
Philipp Dutkowski, Olivier de Rougemont and Pierre-Alain Clavien
21 Difficult surgical patients,
Philipp Dutkowski, Stefan Breitenstein and Pierre-Alain Clavien
22 Domino and split-liver 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 and Robert J. Porte
26 Critical care of the liver transplant recipient,
Markus Béchir, Erik Schadde and Philipp Dutkowski
27 Rejection and immunosuppression trends in liver transplantation,
James F. Trotter
28 Vascular complications after liver transplantation,
Goran Klintmalm and Srinath Chinnakotla
29 Biliary complications following liver transplantation,
Sanna op den Dries, Robert C. Verdonk and Robert J. Porte
30 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 liver 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
Multiple choice questions,
Answers,
Index,
Pierre-Alain Clavien, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery. Head, Division of Visceral & Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Clavien is a world-wide renowned surgeon-scientist, currently professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery in Zurich, Switzerland. His areas of research include organ preservation, liver ischemia-reperfusion injury and regeneration, and pathogenesis of cancer, as well as outcome research. He received many competitive grants and awards, including one of the most prestigious prices for scientific research, the Otto Naegeli Award.
Dr James Trotter is the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
Dr. Trotter's primary interests include end-stage liver disease and the management of liver transplant candidates and recipients. Dr. Trotter specializes in hepatitis C, ascites, complications of portal hypertension, including esophageal varices and hepatic encephalopathy. He also has vast experience in the management of medical complications after liver transplantation including immunosuppression in liver transplant recipients and the treatment of hepatitis C before and after liver transplantation.
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