Liver Transplantation: A Decade of Progress, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease
- 1st Edition, Volume 29-2 - April 29, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Kalyan Ram Bhamidimarri, Paul Martin
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 6 7 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 6 7 5 - 8
In this issue of Clinics in Liver Disease, guest editors Drs. Paul Martin and Kalyan Ram Bhamidimarri bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Liver Transplan… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Clinics in Liver Disease, guest editors Drs. Paul Martin and Kalyan Ram Bhamidimarri bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Liver Transplantation: A Decade of Progress. Top experts in hepatology provide important clinical updates on liver transplantation and discuss challenges surrounding liver donation and the donor pool, renal dysfunction, and immunosuppression—all with eye to future improvements and optimal patient outcomes.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including changing indications and changing candidates in liver transplantation; pediatric liver transplant patients; substance use disorders and interprofessional management in pre- and post-transplant; the liver ICU; the role of liver transplant in primary and secondary hepatic malignancies; and more
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on a decade of progress in liver transplantation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews
Hepatologists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Liver Transplantation: Changing Indications and Changing Candidates
- Key points
- Lessons from the rise and fall of hepatitis C virus
- Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Trends in donors and recipient risk over time—the rise of machine perfusion
- Evolving criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma and nonhepatocellular carcinoma tumors
- Clinics care points
- Liver Transplantation in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Standard liver transplantation for alcohol-associated liver disease
- Early liver transplantation for alcohol-associated liver disease
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Authors’ contributions
- Disclosures
- Substance Use Disorders and Interprofessional Management in the Pre and Post Liver Transplant Settings
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- The Liver Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Importance of specialized care units for critically ill patients with liver disease
- Role of hepatologists in the intensive care unit
- Managing critically ill patients with cirrhosis
- Innovations and future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Role of Liver Transplant in Primary and Secondary Liver Malignancies
- Key points
- Introduction and history
- Liver transplantation for primary hepatic tumors
- Liver transplantation for secondary hepatic tumors
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Expanding the Liver Donor Pool: Promise and Peril
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Endohepatology: Applications in Liver Transplant
- Key points
- Introduction
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Renal Dysfunction and Liver Transplantation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Immunosuppression Post-Liver Transplant: End of the Calcineurin Era?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Historical perspective
- Alternatives to calcineurin inhibitor: mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors
- Biological agents
- Current immunosuppression practice
- Moving forward
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Long-Term Care of the Liver Transplant Recipient
- Key points
- Introduction
- Metabolic syndrome
- Metabolic bone disease
- Reproductive health
- Malignancy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Recurrent and De Novo Liver Disease After Liver Transplantation
- Key points
- Recurrent and de novo liver disease after liver transplantation
- Alcohol-associated liver disease
- Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Innovations to Expand the Liver Donor Pool: Machine Perfusion and Xenotransplantation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Liver xenotransplantation
- Normothermic machine perfusion
- Hypothermic (oxygenated) machine perfusion
- Discussion and summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 29-2
- Published: April 29, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443296741
- eBook ISBN: 9780443296758
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Kalyan Ram Bhamidimarri
Affiliations and expertise
University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL, USAPM
Paul Martin
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Hepatology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA