89 Liver transplantation

Auxiliary liver transplantation Auxiliary LT involves implanting a healthy liver graft placed eit...

Biliary complications The biliary complications usually present as bile leak, biliary anastomotic...

CAUSES OF ALLOGRAFT DYSFUNCTION Liver graft dysfunction can happen any time after transplanta tio...

CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVER

Domino liver transplantation Domino LT involves transplanting a liver from a patient with metabol...

FURTHER READING Busuttil R, Klinymalm G (eds). Transplantation of the liver , 3rd edn. Philadelp...

Haemorrhage Portal hypertension and coagulopathy of CLD are important causes of bleeding that a...

IMMEDIATE POST-TRANSPLANT CARE Following LT , patients are monitored in an intensive care unit (I...

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION FOLLOWING LIVER TRANSPLANTATION Liver is considered to be an ‘immunoregulatory’...

INDICATIONS AND PATIENT SELECTION The indications for liver transplantation (LT) fall into four g...

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LIVER TRANSPLANTATION FOR HEPATIC MALIGNANCY As a general rule, malignancy in a solid organ is no...

LIVER TRANSPLANTATION Disease recurrence after LT has increased over the past decade, as many mor...

Learning objectives To know: The surgical principles of liver transplantation • Potential futur...

Liver support devices ALF has a high mortality in the range of 50–80%. Extra corporeal liver sup...

Living donor liver transplantation In 1988, Silvano Raia in Sao Paolo, Brazil, was the first to i...

Machine perfusion With the advances and improvements in outcomes in LT over the last four decades...

PAEDIATRIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION Paediatric LT has now been carried out for more than three decad...

POST-LIVER TRANSPLANT COMPLICATIONS Primary non-function Primary non-function (PNF) is one of th...

Paired-exchange programmes Liver paired exchange (LPE) allows liver donors and their intended inc...

Split and reduced-size liver transplantation Split LT is a valuable option for making the best us...

TECHNIQUE OF LIVER TRANSPLANTATION Deceased donor liver transplantation A reverse-L or a Mercedes...

TRANSPLANTATION The allocation of liver grafts to patients with end-stage liver disease is domin...

USEFUL WEBSITES IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION /uni25CF www .bts.org.uk /uni25CF www .odt.nhs.uk /uni25...

Vascular complications Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) is one of the most dreaded complications ...