Overview
- Editors:
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James F. Trotter
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Gregory T. Everson
- Presents key areas of controversy
- Promotes discourse among transplant professionals
- Written by physicians, surgeons and health care providers who confront these issues on a daily basis
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- David A. Bruno, Allan D. Kirk
Pages 1-18
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- Christian Toso, Andrew L. Mason, Norman M. Kneteman
Pages 19-44
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- Norah A. Terrault, Mario G. Pessoa
Pages 45-63
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- John F. Renz, Robert S. Brown Jr
Pages 65-89
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- Michael A. Zimmerman, Andrew M. Cameron, R. Mark Ghobrial
Pages 103-122
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- David T. Palma, Michael B. Fallon
Pages 123-133
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- Geoffrey McCaughan, Jade D. Jamias, Qingchun Fu, Nicholas Shackel, Simone Strasser
Pages 145-167
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Back Matter
Pages 191-196
About this book
Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics grew out of a need I perceived within the fields of transplant hepatology and liver transplantation. Liver transplantation has rightly gained recognition as an established therapy for end-stage liver disease. Few would argue that liver transplantation is one of the few truly lifesaving and life-altering treatments within medicine and surgery. Not many realize that 20 years passed from the time of the first human liver transplantation in 1963 to its acceptance as therapy by the 1983 NIH Consensus Conference on Liver Transplantation. In 2008, 25 years will have passed since the 1983 NIH conference—a mere 25 years for a field that has provided patients hope, doctors options, and to some the “gift of life. ” Many issues in liver transplantation involve indications, patient selection, and outcomes after transplantation—these are standard topics, covered by textbooks of hepatology and transplantation. In contrast, the field of liver tra- plantation is young, evolving, dynamic, and issues and decisions are often controversial. Thus, Dr. Trotter and I, as well as our colleagues at the University of Colorado, felt that a text with a different focus was required, one that highlighted controversy and challenged dogma. Out of this perceived need emerged Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics. To meet the transplant community’s need for emerging information about liver transplantation, Dr. Larry Chan, Dr. Igal Kam, and I initiated the Controversies in Transplantation Conference.
