Liver Transplantation Challenging Controversies and Topics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Trotter, James F. (Editor), Everson, Gregory T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Clinical medicine.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Hepatology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-028-1

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 chapt...

Table of Contents:

• Tolerance in Liver Transplantation: Just a Promise or Revolving Reality
• Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Liver Transplantation
• Pre and Post Transplant Management of Hepatitis C
• The Dilemma of Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
• The Share 15 Rule
• Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Liver Transplantation and the Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
• Long-term Metabolic Complications Post-transplantation: Controversies in Management
• Hepatitis B and Liver Transplantation: Current Trends
• Liver Transplantation for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.