Current Issues in Liver and Small Bowel Transplantation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Technical Aspects and Physiological Problems in Split/Living Donor Liver Transplantation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: Experience at Shinshu University

      • Seiji Kawasaki

      Pages 3-10

   3. Liver Splitting for Two Adult Patients and Domino Liver Transplantation: The Paul Brousse Experience

      • R. Adam, D. Azoulay, D. Castaing, Y. M. Bao, E. Savier, D. Samuel et al.

      Pages 11-12

   4. Living-Donor Liver Transplantation in Taiwan

      • Yaw-Sen Chen, Chao-Long Chen, Vanessa H. de Villa, Chih-Chi Wang, Shih-Ho Wang, Po-Ping Liu et al.

      Pages 13-21

   5. Impact of Small-for-Size Graft on Graft Surgical and Postoperative Complications in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation

      • Koichi Tanaka

      Pages 22-22

   6. Living-Donor Liver Transplantation Using Left-Liver Graft and Hepatic Vein Reconstruction

      • Masatoshi Makuuchi, Yasuhiko Sugawara

      Pages 23-27

   7. Results of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation in Hong Kong

      • Sheung-Tat Fan, Chung-Mau Lo, Chi-Leung Liu, William Ignace Wei

      Pages 28-42

   8. Middle Hepatic Vein Reconstruction in Living-Donor Liver Transplantation Using the Right Lobe

      • Sung Gyu Lee

      Pages 43-44

3. Viral Hepatitis and Liver Transplantation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Liver Transplantation for Hepatitis B and C

      • John J. Fung

      Pages 47-47

   3. Strategies for the Treatment of Hepatitis B and C After Liver Transplantation

      • Ulf P. Neumann, Daniel Seehofer, Jan M. Langrehr, Peter Neuhaus

      Pages 48-61

   4. Prophylaxis and Posttransplant Treatment of Viral Hepatitis in Living-Donor Liver Transplantation

      • Takafumi Ichida, Yoshinobu Satoh

      Pages 62-71

4. Current Status and Future Prospects in Small Bowel Transplantation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Intestinal Transplantation

      • Alan N. Langnas

      Pages 75-86

   3. Clinical Experience of Small Bowel/Multivisceral Transplantation at the University of Miami

      • Seigo Nishida, Tomoaki Kato, David Levi, Jose R. Nery, Naveen Mittal, Juan Madariaga et al.

      Pages 87-98

   4. Intestinal Transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh

      • J. J. Fung, J. Reyes, N. Murase, G. Bond, K. Abu-Elmagd

      Pages 99-104

   5. Intestinal Transplantation in Children: Experience of a Single Center in Paris

      • Olivier Goulet, Dominique Jan, Florence Lacaille, Danièle Canioni, Jean-Pierre Cézard, Claude Ricour et al.

      Pages 105-111

   6. Living-Donor Small Bowel Transplantation: Experience of Three Cases

      • S. Uemoto, S. Kaihara, A. Yokoi, H. Oike, M. Kasahara, K. Tanaka

      Pages 112-114

   7. Small Bowel Transplantation as a Final Treatment for Intestinal Failure

      • Akira Okada, Toshimichi Hasegawa, Masafumi Wasa, Tatsuo Azuma

      Pages 115-121

In Japan, cadaveric donor liver transplantation is not common even though cadaveric organ transplantation was legally established in 1998. In contrast, the number of living donor liver transplantations is increasing, with more than 1700 cases at 43 Japanese institutes by November 2001. Indications for and have become living donor liver transplantation are widening in Japan similar to those for cadaveric donor liver transplantation in the United States and Europe. At the same time, split liver transplantation from cadaveric donors shares some technical aspects with living donor liver transplantation. Remarkable progress has been reported recently, and thus it was an auspicious time to hold a symposium on "Current issues in liver/small bowel transplantation" in Japan. We were honored to hold a very fruitful symposium sponsored by the Keio University Medical Science Fund and to bring together top-rank transplant surgeons from Japan and other countries. It was a productive and rewarding time for all participants. We were able to share our experience through excellent presentations followed by active discussions and insightful com­ ments. At the symposium, we focused on current issues in liver transplanta­ tion such as widening indications for viral hepatitis and malignant tumors. We also discussed technical aspects and physiological problems in split/iiving donor liver transplant, novel strategies in immunosuppression, and the current status and future prospects in small bowel transplantation. This book contains the papers from all the distinguished guest speakers, focusing on the topics discussed at the symposium.

• Hepatic Malignancies
• Small Bowel Transplantation
• hepatitis
• immunosuppression
• liver
• liver transplantation
• transplantation
• viral hepatitis

• Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Masaki Kitajima, Motohide Shimazu, Go Wakabayashi, Ken Hoshino, Minoru Tanabe, Shigeyuki Kawachi

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