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The Liver Graft Before Transplantation
Defining Outcome After Liver Transplantation
- 350 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The Liver Graft Before Transplantation: Defining Outcome After Liver Transplantation provides a comprehensive overview of pre-transplant assessment and conditioning of liver grafts to guide the best strategy for successful transplantation for better outcomes for patients. Sections provide an overview of the history and indications for liver transplantations as well as coverage of current practices used in transplantation. Next donor and liver graft assessment are discussed with specific coverage of diseases that carry a risk of recurrence after liver transplantation, including hepatocellular carcinoma, NASH, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and viral hepatitis.Finally, the impact of the use of suboptimal liver grafts and clues to make the right trade-of between benefit and risk are discussed. This is the perfect reference for clinicians who need a comprehensive, clinically relevant overview of pre-transplant assessment and conditioning of liver grafts and want to know what to expect in future years.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of pretransplant assessment and conditioning of liver grafts in one reference
- Provides the latest information in the rapidly evolving field of machine perfusion
- Includes expert opinions that help readers understand and anticipate issues to be addressed regarding the donor and the allograft before transplantation
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Yes, you can access The Liver Graft Before Transplantation by Xavier Verhelst in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Biology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 : Introduction, history
- Chapter 2 : Current practice in liver transplantation
- Chapter 3 : Outcome after liver transplantation
- Chapter 4 : Living donation in liver transplantation: Overview of history, indications, and specific aspects of living donation in liver transplantation
- Chapter 5 : Assessment of a donor for liver transplantation
- Chapter 6 : Assessment of a liver graft
- Chapter 7 : Nonmechanical preservation and allocation of liver grafts
- Chapter 8 : Liver procurement: DBD, DCD, and living donation
- Chapter 9 : The use of machine perfusion in liver transplantation
- Chapter 10 : Emerging treatments in graft reconditioning beyond machine perfusion
- Index
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