Table of Contents
Contributors, ix
Preface, xv
Part 1 Management of the potential transplant recipient
1 Selection and evaluation of the recipient (including retransplantation), 3 Audrey Coilly and Didier Samuel
2 Monitoring the patient awaiting liver transplantation, 13 Andreas Geier and Beat Müllhaupt
3 Management of portal hypertension, 26 Juan Carlos Garcia-Pagan, Juan G. Abraldes and Jaime Bosch
4 Management of renal disease in the liver transplant candidate, 39 Andrés Cárdenas and Pere Ginès
5 Management of hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension, 51 Victor I. Machicao and Michael B. Fallon
6 Psychiatric and substance abuse evaluation of the potential liver transplant recipient, 62 Thomas P. Beresford
7 Organ allocation in liver transplantation: ethics, organ supply, and evidencebased practice, 75 Nicole Siparsky, David Axelrod and Richard B. Freeman
8 Viral hepatitis and transplantation, 88 Geoffrey W. McCaughan
9 Metabolic liver diseases, 97 Maureen M.J. Guichelaar and Michael R. Charlton
10 Cholestatic and autoimmune liver disease, 110 Ulrich Beuers
11 Hepatocellular carcinoma, 121 Maria Reig, Alejandro Forner and Jordi Bruix
12 Cholangiocarcinoma, 133 Howard C. Masuoka, Gregory J. Gores and Charles B. Rosen
13 Rare indications for liver transplantation, 145 Stevan A. Gonzalez
14 Liver transplantation in HIV patients, 155 Marion G. Peters and Peter G. Stock
15 Living-donor liver transplantation, 162 Robert S. Brown Jr
16 Fulminant hepatic failure, 176 Michael A. Heneghan and William Bernal
Part 2 Donor issues and management in the perioperative period
17 Extended-criteria donor, 191 Ashraf Mohammad El-Badry and Mickael Lesurtel
18 Liver transplantation using donors after cardiac death, 201 Paolo Muiesan, Laura Tariciotti and Chiara Rocha
19 Transmission of malignancies and infection through donor organs, 216 Aaron M. Winnick and Lewis Teperman
20 The transplant operation, 229 Philipp Dutkowski, Olivier de Rougemont and Pierre-Alain Clavien
21 Difficult surgical patients, 238 Philipp Dutkowski, Stefan Breitenstein and Pierre-Alain Clavien
22 Domino and split-liver transplantation, 246 Abhideep Chaudhary and Abhinav Humar
23 Surgical aspects of living-donor transplantation, 255 Kelvin K.C. Ng and Sheung Tat Fan
24 Anesthesia, 266 Beatrice Beck-Schimmer
25 Coagulation and blood transfusion management, 276 Herman G.D. Hendriks, Ton Lisman and Robert J. Porte
26 Critical care of the liver transplant recipient, 286 Markus Béchir, Erik Schadde and Philipp Dutkowski
27 Rejection and immunosuppression trends in liver transplantation, 297 James F. Trotter
28 Vascular complications after liver transplantation, 311 Goran Klintmalm and Srinath Chinnakotla
29 Biliary complications following liver transplantation, 319 Sanna op den Dries, Robert C. Verdonk and Robert J. Porte
30 Role of histopathology, 332 Achim Weber
Part 3 Chronic problems in the transplant recipient
31 Medical problems after liver transplantation, 347 Eberhard L. Renner and Marco Puglia
32 Prevention and treatment of recurrent HBV and HCV infection, 361 Ed Gane
33 Recurrence of the original disease, 372 James Neuberger
34 Infections in the liver transplant recipient, 380 Nicolas J. Mueller and Jay A. Fishman
35 Cutaneous diseases in liver transplant recipients, 389 Sylvie Euvrard and Jean Kanitakis
36 Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder and other malignancies after liver transplantation, 398 Natasha Chandok and Kymberly D.S. Watt
37 Sexual function and fertility after liver transplantation, 406 Andreas Geier and Beat Müllhaupt
Part 4 Pediatric liver transplantation
38 Special considerations in pediatric liver transplantation, 419 Brandy Ries Lu and Ronald J. Sokol
Multiple choice questions, 431
Answers, 446
Index, 451