BookLanjuan Li, editor.
Summary: This book introduces the clinical application of artificial liver system (ALS) in hepatic failure. It has been widely used in clinics aiming to provide temporary support of liver function while maintaining extra-hepatic function in patients with liver failure. This work comprehensively summarizes the progress of livers and artificial liver, for example, the principle and implementation of Li-ALS, cell transplantation and the combined application of artificial liver and liver transplantation. It will be helpful for clinicians to implement artificial liver treatment to save the lives of patients with hepatic failure.
Contents:
Introduction of artificial liver
Liver Structure
Liver Function
Liver regeneration and tissue engineering
Causes of liver injury
Pathogenesis of liver injury and hepatic failure
Liver pathology
Laboratory evaluation of hepatic failure
Imaging examination of hepatic failure
Diagnosis of hepatic failure
Internal medical treatment of hepatic failure
Function mechanism of artificial liver
Non-biological artificial liver
Practice standards and management of artificial liver treatment
Indications and contraindications of artificial liver treatment
Complications and their prevention of artificial liver treatment
Efficacy and its evaluation of non-biological artificial liver
Biological artificial liver
Hybrid artificial liver
Cell transplantation therapy of hepatic failure
Artificial liver and liver transplantation
Future development of artificial liver.