Liver Transplantation

This book presents the different challenges and opportunities in liver transplantation today, especially given the multifaceted and multidisciplinary nature of liver transplantation. These include the advent of minimally invasive and robotic surgery, the role of liver transplantation in patients wit...

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description This book presents the different challenges and opportunities in liver transplantation today, especially given the multifaceted and multidisciplinary nature of liver transplantation. These include the advent of minimally invasive and robotic surgery, the role of liver transplantation in patients with different types of primary or metastatic liver cancer with the concept of transplant oncology, applications of today’s technology in liver transplantation, the challenges in organ donation and the different types of donors, the differences around the globe in approaching donation and the practice of liver transplantation, the challenges involved in setting priorities for the limited organ supply, the progress in novel immunosuppression medications and regimens, the use of machine perfusion in liver transplantation, and the critical issue of education, both for the public but also for medical professionals, to name a few. All of these issues and many more serve to stress the facts that liver transplantation (1) is multifaceted as an amalgamation of several different medical, legal, social, and other disciplines and (2), more importantly, is continuously evolving. It is these two key features that make liver transplantation one of the most intriguing fields in modern medicine, as well as many believe it is a mirror of society.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1403712024-07-11T08:10:54Z Liver Transplantation Tsoulfas, Georgios General surgery thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery::MNC General surgery This book presents the different challenges and opportunities in liver transplantation today, especially given the multifaceted and multidisciplinary nature of liver transplantation. These include the advent of minimally invasive and robotic surgery, the role of liver transplantation in patients with different types of primary or metastatic liver cancer with the concept of transplant oncology, applications of today’s technology in liver transplantation, the challenges in organ donation and the different types of donors, the differences around the globe in approaching donation and the practice of liver transplantation, the challenges involved in setting priorities for the limited organ supply, the progress in novel immunosuppression medications and regimens, the use of machine perfusion in liver transplantation, and the critical issue of education, both for the public but also for medical professionals, to name a few. All of these issues and many more serve to stress the facts that liver transplantation (1) is multifaceted as an amalgamation of several different medical, legal, social, and other disciplines and (2), more importantly, is continuously evolving. It is these two key features that make liver transplantation one of the most intriguing fields in modern medicine, as well as many believe it is a mirror of society. 2024-07-11T08:10:52Z 2024-07-11T08:10:52Z 2024 book ONIX_20240711_9780854660346_185 9780854660346 9780854660353 9780854660360 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/140371 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books/1003311 https://intech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/a043Y0000103hSJQAY/0015215_Authors_Book%20%282024-06-20%2011%3A01%3A06%29.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.111341 10.5772/intechopen.111341 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9780854660346 9780854660353 9780854660360 IntechOpen 150 open access
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Liver Transplantation
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