With collaboration from Consulting Editor, Dr. Norman Gitlin Dr.
Goldberg has assembled a state-of-the-art issue devoted to
management of liver transplant patients. Expert authors have
contributed current clinical reviews that covers the breadth of the
pre- and post-surgical journey. Articles are specifically devoted
to the following topics: Obesity management of liver transplant
waitlist candidates and recipients; Expanding the limits of liver
transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Is there a limit;
Frailty and sarcopenia in patients pre- and post-liver transplant;
Achieving tolerance in liver transplantation: Where are we now and
what does the future hold; Expanding role of donation after cardiac
death donors; Optimizing selection of patients for simultaneous
liver-kidney transplant; Keeping the patient with end-stage liver
disease alive while awaiting transplant: Management of
complications of portal hypertension; Expanding donor selection and
recipient indications for living donor liver transplantation; The
changing liver transplant recipient: From hepatitis C to NASH and
alcohol; Cardiovascular risk stratification in liver transplant
candidates; The role of machine perfusion in liver transplantation:
Warm, Cold, or does it not matter; Paradigm shift in utilization of
livers from hepatitis C-viremic donors into HCV-negative patients;
Transplantation of elderly patients: Is there an upper age cutoff;
Transplantation for acute alcoholic hepatitis: Controversies and
early successes. Hepatologists will come away with the information
they need to improve outcomes in liver transplant patients.
General
Imprint: |
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Clinics: Internal Medicine |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
First published: |
2021 |
Editors: |
David Goldberg
|
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-323-79192-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Clinical & internal medicine >
Hepatology
|
LSN: |
0-323-79192-1 |
Barcode: |
9780323791922 |
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