Gastrointestinal Transplantation, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 47-2 - May 10, 2018
- Latest edition
- Authors: Enrico Benedetti, Ivo G. Tzvetanov
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 5 8 4 0 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 5 8 4 0 2 - 9
The Guest Editors have put together a concise monograph on the latest advances in transplantation of the liver, intestine, and pancreas. Expert authors have written comprehensive… Read more
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The Guest Editors have put together a concise monograph on the latest advances in transplantation of the liver, intestine, and pancreas. Expert authors have written comprehensive reviews on the following topics: Living donor liver transplantation: Technical innovations; Liver transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma; Immunological monitoring to personalize immunosuppression after liver transplantation; Status of adult LDLT in US based on A2ALL; Pediatric liver transplantation; Modern treatment of fulminant liver failure; Intestinal failure and rehabilitation; Adult intestinal transplantation; Pediatric intestinal transplantation; Living donor intestinal transplantation; Endoscopic follow-up of intestinal transplant recipients; Multivisceral transplantation; Pancreas transplantation for DM1 and DM2; and Robotic pancreas transplantation. Readers will come away with the clinical information they need to stay current on issues surrounding gastrointestinal transplantations.
Foreword: Transplantation of Abdominal Organs
Foreword: Transplantation of Abdominal Organs
Preface: Gastrointestinal Transplantation
Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Technical Innovations
Liver Transplant for Cholangiocarcinoma
Immunologic Monitoring to Personalize Immunosuppression After Liver Transplant
Status of Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States: Results from the Adult-To-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study
Modern Management of Acute Liver Failure
Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation
Adult Intestinal Transplantation
Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation
Living Donor Intestinal Transplantation
Endoscopic Follow-up of Intestinal Transplant Recipients
Composite and Multivisceral Transplantation: Nomenclature, Surgical Techniques,
Current Practice, and Long-term Outcome
Pancreas Transplantation for Patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the United States: A Registry Report
Robotic Pancreas Transplantation
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 47-2
- Published: May 10, 2018
- Language: English
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Enrico Benedetti
Enrico Benedetti, MD, FACS, Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery, Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery and Medical Director, Abdominal Organ Transplant Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Enrico Benedetti was born in Perugia, Italy, on Oct. 3, 1960. Dr. Benedetti graduated cum laude from the medical school in the University of Florence in 1985 and completed a surgical residency at the same university by 1989.
In 1989, he moved to Chicago to start a United States surgery residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which he completed in 1993. Dr. Benedetti earned a fellowship in transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota. Since 1994, Dr. Benedetti has been a transplant surgeon at the University of Illinois. He started as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and rose through the ranks first to Associate Professor in 1999 and then to Professor in 2005. Dr. Benedetti is currently the Head of Department of Surgery and the Director of the Abdominal Organ Transplant Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Benedetti is also the recipient of the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Humanitarian of the Year Award. Dr. Benedetti has published more than 300 articles and more than 30 book chapters and is the editor of the seminal book, “Living Donor Organ Transplantation.”
Included among his many surgical accomplishments are:
• The first successful combined coronary artery bypass and liver transplant worldwide
• The first robotic donor nephrectomy for living donor kidney transplant worldwide in 2000
• The first combined living donor liver/bowel transplant from adult to an infant worldwide in 2003
• The first robotic combined kidney/pancreas procurement for living donor kidney/pancreas transplant worldwide in 2005
• The largest series worldwide of living donor intestinal transplantation (32 of a total of 47 cases done in the world)
• First robotic kidney transplant in obese recipient in 2009
Affiliations and expertise
Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery, Professor & Head, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAIT
Ivo G. Tzvetanov
Affiliations and expertise
Chief of the Division of Transplantation at UI Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA