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With remarkable progress being reported in living donor liver transplants and small bowel transplantation, the 9th Keio International Symposium for Life Sciences and Medicine was auspiciously timed. Titled "Current Issues in Liver/Small Bowel Transplantation," the Tokyo symposium brought together researchers from Japan and other parts of the world. This volume is a compilation of papers from the symposium, organized into five key areas of interest to medical professionals: Technical aspects and physiological problems in split/living donor liver transplantation; Viral hepatitis and liver transplantation; Current status and future prospects in small bowel transplantation; Liver transplantation for malignant hepatic tumors; and Novel strategies in immunosuppression. Containing the most up-to-date information on these vital issues, the book is an essential resource for all researchers and practitioners concerned with liver and small bowel transplantation.
The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with
grat itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience
of Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino. It is his perseverance that has made
this volume a reality. It was his faith in ideas that brought
together a cluster of scholars in Tokyo on September 2-4, 1994, at
Sophia University for a U. S. -J apan Bioethics Congress. With the
support of the Foundation for Advance ment of International
Science, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the
Foundation of Thanatology, the Japanese Center for Quality of Life
Studies, and Sophia University, scholars from Canada, Germany,
Japan, and the United States were able to explore the differ ences
and similarities in their approaches to bioethics and health care
policy. That conference first produced a volume through Shibunkaku
Publishers of Kyoto that appeared in 1995 in J apanese: The Dignity
of Death, edited by Kazumasa Hoshino. Selections from those
materials have been reworked for an English audience and now
appear, along with new essays, in this volume. The field of
comparative bioethics is only in its infancy. We are deeply
grateful to Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino, one of the fathers of J apanese
bioethics, for having made this volume possible. H. Tristram
Engelhardt, Jr. Stuart F. Spicker Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This
volume's editors and Kluwer Academic Publishers wish to thank
Shibunkaku Press, Kyoto, Japan, for permission to publish, without
charge, essays derived from the U. S."
In Japan, cadaveric donor liver transplantation is not common even
though cadaveric organ transplantation was legally established in
1998. In contrast, the number of living donor liver
transplantations is increasing, with more than 1700 cases at 43
Japanese institutes by November 2001. Indications for and have
become living donor liver transplantation are widening in Japan
similar to those for cadaveric donor liver transplantation in the
United States and Europe. At the same time, split liver
transplantation from cadaveric donors shares some technical aspects
with living donor liver transplantation. Remarkable progress has
been reported recently, and thus it was an auspicious time to hold
a symposium on "Current issues in liver/small bowel
transplantation" in Japan. We were honored to hold a very fruitful
symposium sponsored by the Keio University Medical Science Fund and
to bring together top-rank transplant surgeons from Japan and other
countries. It was a productive and rewarding time for all
participants. We were able to share our experience through
excellent presentations followed by active discussions and
insightful com ments. At the symposium, we focused on current
issues in liver transplanta tion such as widening indications for
viral hepatitis and malignant tumors. We also discussed technical
aspects and physiological problems in split/iiving donor liver
transplant, novel strategies in immunosuppression, and the current
status and future prospects in small bowel transplantation. This
book contains the papers from all the distinguished guest speakers,
focusing on the topics discussed at the symposium."
The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with
grat itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience
of Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino. It is his perseverance that has made
this volume a reality. It was his faith in ideas that brought
together a cluster of scholars in Tokyo on September 2-4, 1994, at
Sophia University for a U. S. -J apan Bioethics Congress. With the
support of the Foundation for Advance ment of International
Science, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the
Foundation of Thanatology, the Japanese Center for Quality of Life
Studies, and Sophia University, scholars from Canada, Germany,
Japan, and the United States were able to explore the differ ences
and similarities in their approaches to bioethics and health care
policy. That conference first produced a volume through Shibunkaku
Publishers of Kyoto that appeared in 1995 in J apanese: The Dignity
of Death, edited by Kazumasa Hoshino. Selections from those
materials have been reworked for an English audience and now
appear, along with new essays, in this volume. The field of
comparative bioethics is only in its infancy. We are deeply
grateful to Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino, one of the fathers of J apanese
bioethics, for having made this volume possible. H. Tristram
Engelhardt, Jr. Stuart F. Spicker Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This
volume's editors and Kluwer Academic Publishers wish to thank
Shibunkaku Press, Kyoto, Japan, for permission to publish, without
charge, essays derived from the U. S."
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