Product Description

Spearheaded by two of the world's preeminent experts in liver surgery, the new edition of this landmark masterwork encompasses all of today's best knowledge in the field. It provides detailed discussions of everything from pathophysiology and patient and donor selection...through transplantation anesthesia and full range of operative procedures...to immunosuppression, postoperative care, and ethical issues. The result is an ideal single source for authoritative, up-to-the-minute guidance on every imaginable aspect of liver transplantation.

• Discusses the background and available management options for each hepatic disease entity.
  
• Addresses anesthesia for liver transplantation"oa crucial aspect of successful surgery that is often neglected in other sources.
  
• Provides step-by-step descriptions of today's full range of transplantation techniques.
  
• Details postoperative care, including intensive
• Considers the ethical issues involved in using living donors.
  
• Delivers pearls and pitfalls that provide important advice from world-renowned experts.

• Offers sweeping updates throughout, with contributions from many brand-new authors on the front lines of research and clinical practice.
  
li>Presents the latest information on immunosuppression, focusing on side effects and morbidities associated with the currently available drugs.

• Covers hot topics such as adult living donor transplantation, including relevant imaging techniques · liver allocation in the United States and Europe · Hepatitis C · outcomes · management of the necrotic liver · new immunosup¬pres¬sive drugs · the development of a bioartificial liver · and much more.

With 104 additional contributing experts

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #699757 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1507 pages

Review
"should be . . . readily available to physicians and surgeons inclovled in liver transplantation at all stages in their training." -- New England Journal of Medicine Februatry 23, 2006

Review
"Overall, the book should be an essential requirement in all liver transplantation units and be readily available to physicians and surgeons involved in liver transplantation at all stages in their training." --New England Journal of Medicine

"[A] magnum opus...A standard textbook and a wonderful reference work on all aspects of liver transplantation...Readers around the world who have an interest in liver grafting will need this book. I recommend it enthusiastically."--NEJM (review of previous edition)

"This superb book will be the most comprehensive and most used reference in the transplantation library."--Hepatology (review of previous edition)

"An ambitious and highly successful work...the standard by which subsequent texts on human liver transplantation will be measured."--Gastroenterology (review of previous edition)

About the Author
Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD, Professor and Chief, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Dumont Chair in Transplantation Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA; and Goran B. Klintmalm, MD, PhD, Chief and Chairman, Baylor Institute of Transplantation; Director, Transplantation Services, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Director, Dallas Liver Transplant Program, Dallas, TX

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Customer Reviews

Transplantation of the Liver: User Assessment
This text is without question the most comprehensive in the field today. The editors have done a remarkable job by offering the nuts and bolts of the transplant experience from a variety of viewpoints. The majority of competive texts on the market are slanted toward the surgical or medical management perspective rather than sharing a global view from a team based approach. Well written and supported by voluminous reference materials. The illustrations are quite easy to discern and are peppered throughout, leaving the reader with a broad fund of knowledge. The book is further valued for it's ability to provide point by point guidelines on management of the transplant patient for nearly every diagnosis. Further, complications are dealt with in a straightforward, useful format.

The new edition was a long time coming but a welcome addition
As a transplant surgeon, I must say that there are not a lot of books published on this topic and, until recently, the previous edition was the authoritative textbook on this topic. In fact, I believe it was probably the only book guaranteed to grace the bookshelf of every liver transplant surgeon. The new text has been updated, which was a long time coming. Although I am not particularly fond of the new cover, having preferred the classier first edition, I congratulate the authors on a huge undertaking. The book is up to date and as complete as possible. Very recent surgical techniques, including a sections on split liver transplantation and living donor transplantation, new immunosuppressive protocols and new preservation techniques are current and well described. I highly recommend this new edition.

The masterpiece in liver transplant.
As my opinion it's the "bible" of the liver transplantologist.
Wide spectrum of the problems concerning the medical and surgical practice of liver transplant.