Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient Book

List of Contributors.

Part 1: Management of the Potential Transplant Recipient.

1 Selection and Evaluation of the Recipient (including retransplantation) (Audrey Coilly and Didier Samuel).

2 Monitoring the Patient Awaiting Transplantation (Andreas Geier and Beat Müllhaupt).

3 Management of Portal Hypertension (Juan Carlos Garcia-Pagan, Juan G. Abraldes and Jaime Bosch).

4 Management of Renal Disease in the Liver Transplant Candidate (Andrés Cárdenas and Pere Ginès).

5 Management of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome and Portopulmonary Hypertension (Victor I. Machicao and Michael B. Fallon).

6 Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Evaluation of the Potential Liver Transplant Recipient (Thomas P. Beresford).

7 Organ Allocation in Liver Transplantation: Ethics, Organ Supply, and Evidence Based Practice (Nicole Siparsky, David Axelrod and Richard B. Freeman).

8 Viral Hepatitis and Transplantation (Geoffrey W.  McCaughan).

9 Metabolic Liver Diseases (Maureen M.J. Guichelaar and Michael R. Charlton).

10 Cholestatic and Autoimmune Liver Disease (Ulrich Beuers).

11 Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Maria Reig, Alejandro Forner and Jordi Bruix).

12 Cholangiocarcinoma (Howard C. Masuoka, Gregory J. Gores, Charles B. Rosen).

13 Rare Indications for Liver Transplantation (Stevan A. Gonzalez).

14 HIV Patients (Marion G. Peters and Peter G. Stock).

15 Living Donor Liver Transplantation (Robert S. Brown, Jr.).

16 Fulminant Hepatic  Failure (Michael A. Heneghan and William Bernal).

Part 2: Donor Issues and Management in the Perioperative Period.

17 Extended Criteria Donor (Ashraf Mohammad El-Badry, Mickael Lesurtel).

18 Liver Transplantation Using Donors after Cardiac Death (Paolo Muiesan, Laura Tariciotti, Chiara Rocha).

19 Transmission of Malignancies and Infection through Donor Organs (Aaron M. Winnick and Lewis Teperman).

20 The Transplant Operation (Christian Oberkofler, Olivier de Rougemont and Philipp Dutkowski).

21 The Difficult Surgical Patients (Philipp Dutkowski, Stefan Breitenstein  and Pierre-Alain Clavien).

22 Domino and Split Transplantation (Abhideep Chaudhary and  Abhinav Humar).

23 Surgical Aspects of Living Donor Transplantation (Kelvin K.C. Ng and Sheung Tat Fan).

24 Anesthesia (Beatrice Beck-Schimmer).

25 Coagulation and Blood Transfusion Management (Herman G. D. Hendriks, Ton Lisman, Robert J. Porte).

26 Critical Care of the Liver Transplant Recipient (Markus Béchir, Erik Schadde, Philipp Dutkowski).

27 Rejection and Immunosuppression Trends in Liver Transplantation (James F. Trotter).

28 Vascular Complications after Liver Transplantation (Srinath Chinnakotla and Goran Klintmalm).

29 Biliary Complications Following Liver Transplantation (Sanna op den Dries, Robert C. Verdonk, Robert J. Porte).

30 The Role of Histopathology (Achim Weber).

Part 3: Chronic Problems in the Transplant Recipient.

31 Medical Problems after Liver Transplantation (Eberhard L. Renner and Marco Puglia).

32 Prevention and Treatment of Recurrent HBV and HCV Infection (Ed Gane).

33 Recurrence of the Original Disease (James Neuberger).

34 Infections in the Organ Transplant Recipient (Nicolas J. Mueller and Jay A. Fishman).

35 Cutaneous Diseases in Liver Transplant Recipients (Sylvie Euvrard and Jean Kanitakis).

36 Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder and Other Malignancies after Liver Transplantation (Natasha Chandok and Kymberly D.S. Watt).

37 Sexual function and fertility after liver transplantation (Andreas Geier and Beat Müllhaupt).

Part 4: Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

38 Special Considerations in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (Brandy Ries Lu and Ronald J. Sokol).

Index.