Liver Transplantation. Challenging Controversies and Topics

About this book

The field of liver transplantation is young, evolving, dynamic, and issues and decisions are often controversial, thus a text with a different focus is required, one that highlights controversy and challenges dogma. In Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics a useful set of chapters have been created that will take the reader step-by-step through key areas of controversy in the field of liver transplantation. The authors have tried to anticipate questions, define key issues, and provide options for resolving or approaching areas of uncertainty. The topics covered in this book impact our understanding and management of immunosuppressant, viral hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, organ allocation, regional differences in rates of transplantation, and hepatocellular cancer. All authors are actively practicing physicians and surgeons who deal with all the issues presented on an ongoing and daily basis. Throughout the book, emphasis is put on the need for thoughtful well-controlled clinical and basic research of transplant hepatology and liver transplantation. There is also speculation on potential breakthroughs in immunology, virology, cell biology, surgery and medicine that might influence or impact the future directions of these fields of medicine. Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics is an important new book meant to stimulate interest, identify topics requiring additional study, and to promote discourse among transplant professionals.

Written for: Gastroenterologists, hepatologists, transplant surgeons

Keywords:

• Donor Organs
• Immunosuppression
• Transplant Hepatology

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Tolerance in Liver Transplantation: Just a Promise or Revolving Reality
David B. Bruno, MD and Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD

Chapter 2. Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Liver Transplantation
Christian Toso, Andrew L. Mason, and Norman M. Kneteman

Chapter 3. Pre and Post Transplant Management of Hepatitis C
Norah A. Terrault, MD, MPH and Mario G. Pessoa

Chapter 4. The Dilemma of Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
John F. Renz, MD, PhD and Robert S. Brown Jr., MD, MPH

Chapter 5. The Share 15 Rule
Richard B. Freeman, MD

Chapter 6. Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Michael A. Zimmerman, MD, Andrew M. Cameron, MD, and R. Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD

Chapter 7. Liver Transplantation and the Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
David T. Palma, MD and Michael B. Fallon, MD

Chapter 8. Long-term Metabolic Complications Post-transplantation: Controversies in Management
Lisa M. Forman, MD

Chapter 9. Hepatitis B and Liver Transplantation: Current Trends
Geoffrey McCaughan, MBBS, MD, FRACP, PhD, Jade D. Jamias, MD, FPCP, DPSG, DPSDE, Qingchun Fu, MD, Nicholas Shackel, MBBS MD FRACP PhD, Simone Strasser, MBBS MD, FRACP

Chapter 10. Liver Transplantation for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Michael Charlton, MD