BookCataldo Doria, editor.
Summary: Contemporary Liver Transplantation provides a comprehensive review of the most crucial and provocative aspects of liver transplantation. It represents a unique source of information and guidance for the current generation of transplant surgeons that evolved from being pure clinicians into savvy administrators knowledgeable in every regulatory aspect governing transplantation. The book contains 35 chapters covering every single aspect of the surgical operation in the donors as well as the recipients of liver transplants. The pre-operative work-up, as well as the post-operative immunosuppression management, and the treatment of recurrent diseases are addressed in detail. Single chapters are dedicated to controversial issues like transplantation in patients diagnosed with NASH, transplantation for patients diagnosed with HCC beyond Milan criteria, and usage of HIV positive donors. Dedicated chapters on HCV, HCC, FHF, and NASH will make this book a unique resource for any health care provider part of the multidisciplinary liver transplant team. The book goes beyond the analysis of the formal medical and surgical aspects of liver transplantation and introduces deep knowledge on key aspects of contemporary transplant programs, such as: physical rehabilitation, palliative care, pregnancy, the multiple requirements of regulatory agencies ruling transplantation, quality measurements for transplant programs, finance and liability. The book is organized in 9 sections focusing on each key aspect of liver transplantation. Contemporary Liver Transplantation addresses the need and the questions of of the multidisciplinary group involved including surgeons, Hepatologists, anesthesiologists, infectious disease specialists, radiologists, transplant coordinators, financial specialists, epidemiologists and administrators.
Contents:
Part I. Historical Perspective
1. History of Liver and Other Splanchnic Organ Transplantation / Thomas E. Starzl
Part II. The Operation
2. Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: Indications and Contraindications / Quirino Lai, Samuele Iesari, and Jan Lerut
3. Donor Operation / Javier Bueno, Matias Ramirez, and José Andrés Molino
4. Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: Surgical Techniques / Cataldo Doria, Samuel Goldstein, and Ignazio R. Marino
5. Split Liver Transplantation / Koji Hashimoto and Bijan Eghtesad
6. Live Donor Liver Transplant / Sung-Gyu Lee and Deok-Bog Moon
7. Minimally Invasive Live Donor Liver Hepatectomy / Hoonbae Jeon, Tai Ho Shin, Ivo G. Tzvetanov, and Enrico Benedetti
8. Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: Complications / Carlo Gerardo B. Ramirez
Part III. Anesthesia Management
9. Anesthesia Management of Liver Transplantation / Yoogoo Kang and Elia Elia
10. Hepatopulmonary Syndrome and Portopulmonary Hypertension / Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Vivek N. Iyer, and Michael J. Krowka
Part IV Transplant Hepatology
11 NASH: The Ethical Dilemma / Laura Connor and Scott Andrew Fink
12. Fulminant Hepatic Failure: Diagnosis and Management / Dina L. Halegoua-De Marzio and David A. Sass
13. Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A New Era / Santiago J. Munoz, Kenneth D. Rothstein, and Alexandra L. Gibas
14. Infections and Sepsis After Liver Transplantation / Erika D. Lease
15. Liver Transplantation for HCC: The Milan Criteria / Jesse M. Civan
16. HCC: The San Francisco Criteria / Thomas Byrne and Hugo Vargas
17. Downstaging Hepatocellular Carcinoma for Liver Transplantation / Mohammad Khreiss and David A. Geller
18. Systemic Chemotherapy in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation / Jascha Rubin and Ashwin Sama
19. Combined Transplantations / Pooja Singh and Jerry McCauley
Part V. Immunology and Pathology of Liver Transplant
20. Immunology of Liver Transplantation / Richard DePalma, John Knorr, and Victor Navarro
21. Pathology of Liver Transplantation / Wei Jiang and John L. Farber
Part VI. Radiology and Liver Transplantation
22 Radiology in Liver Transplantation / Christopher G. Roth, Flavius G. Guglielmo, Sandeep P. Deshmukh, and Donald G. Mitchell
23. Interventional Radiology for the Pre-transplant Patient / Susan Shamimi-Noori
Part VII. Basic Science in Liver Transplantation
24. Xenotransplantation / Zhengyu Wei
25. Cell Therapy for Liver Failure: A New Horizon / Neil H. Riordan
Part VIII. Special Topics
26. Pregnancy After Liver Transplantation / Lisa A. Coscia, John M. Davison, Michael J. Moritz, and Vincent T. Armenti
27. Palliative Care in Liver Transplantation: When to Consult a Specialist / Alana Sagin and Nina O’Connor
28. Artificial Liver Treatment: When and Which One? / Steffen Mitzner, Niels Grabow, and Sebastian Klammt
29. Liver Autotransplantation from the Labs to the Ante-situm Procedure: A Long Journey / Salvatore Gruttadaria, Duilio Pagano, and J. Wallis Marsh 30 Role of Integrative Medicine in Liver Transplantation / Anthony J. Bazzan, Andrew B. Newberg, and Daniel A. Monti
31. Liver Transplantation: Medical Home / George Valko
Part IX. The Contemporary Successful Liver Transplant Program
32. Regulatory Agencies in Transplantation / Belinda Paganafanador
33. Quality Measure of a Contemporary Liver Transplant Program / Maria McCall and Natalie Doria
34. Role of the Transplant Coordinator / Jerita Payne
35. Finance of Liver Transplantation / Edward Zavala and Meredith M. Stanley
36. Liver Transplantation in the Third Millennium in North America: The Strategy for Success / Richard B. Freeman
37. Transplant Program Liability and Risk Factors for Litigation / Daniel F. Ryan III, Paul E. Peel, and Conor A. Mintzer
Index.