Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient looks at monitoring and maintaining the health of organ recipients and donors, pre, during and post-operatively. .

Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient contains the very latest information concerning complications and recurring problems after transplantation and considers fresh approaches and developments in the future.

This is a vital reference to all members of the medical team involved at different stages in the care of liver transplantation patients including hepatologists, gastroenterologists, transplant surgeons, specialist nurses, and nutritionists.

Contents

Management of the Potential Transplant Recipient

1. Selection and Evaluation of the Recipient (includingRetransplantation)
2. Monitoring the Patient Awaiting Transplantation
3. Management of Portal Hypertension and Biliary Problems Prior to Transplantation
4. Psychosocial Evaluation of the Potential Recipient
5. Financial Considerations
6. Donor Organ Distribution
7. Viral Hepatitis.
8. Hepatoma
9. Alcoholism and Alcoholic Liver Disease
10. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (including Cholangiocarcinoma), and Autoimmune Hepatitis
11. Metabolic Diseases
12. Living Donor Liver Transplantation
13. Fulminant Hepatic Failure

Management in the Perioperative Period

14. The Transplant Operation
15. The Difficult Surgical Patient
16. Surgical Aspects of Living Donor Transplantation
17. Anesthesia
18. Recovery in the Immediate Postoperative Period
19. Rejection
20. Vascular Complications
21. Biliary Complications following Liver Transplantation
22. The Role of Histopathology

Chronic Medical Problems in the Transplant Recipient

23. Medical Problems after Liver Transplantation
24. Recurrence of the Original Liver Disease
25. Infections in the Transplant Recipient
26. Renal Function Posttransplant
27. Cutaneous Diseases in the Transplant Recipient
28. Productivity and Social Rehabilitation of the Transplant Recipient

Medications

29. Immunosuppressive Medications
30. Drug Interactions with Commonly Used Immunosuppressive Agents

Pediatric Liver Transplantation

31. Special Considerations for Liver Transplantation in Children

Liver Transplantation in the Future

32. New Approaches

Index

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