Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient looks at monitoring and maintaining the health of organ recipients and donors, pre, during and post-operatively. There are twenty-nine chapters containing practical advice on total patient management. They are arranged into 8 sections and follow the stages of transplantation from first indication and selection of potential recipient, through to acute recovery, long-term follow-up and continued health. In this edition there are new chapters on special considerations in liver transplant patients such as viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease and live donor liver transplantation. It also contains the very latest information concerning complications and recurring problems after transplantation. Another new chapter considers fresh approaches and developments in the future. This is a vital reference to all members of the medical team involved at different stages in the care of liver transplantation patients including hepatologists, gastroenterologists, transplant surgeons, specialist nurses, and nutritionists.

This book builds on the success of previous editions, once again providing hepatologists the most current clinical guide on how to best treat the liver transplant recipient. With an international mix of experienced contributors, this new edition highlights initial indication and selection of the potential recipient, management of the donor organ, post-operative complications in the patient through to acute recovery, long-term follow-up, and continued health. This provides the user a complete guide to the correct clinical management of both the recipient and the donor organ through all stages of transplantation.

This practical text focuses on the diagnosis and management of the subsequent neurologic problems encountered by organ transplant recipients. Due to advances in immunosuppressive drugs, transplant patients are surviving longer, resulting in the occurrence of a number of neurologic problems. Neurologists may feel overwhelmed when called upon to evaluate a postoperative neurologic complication, due in part to the vastness of medical and surgical history. In addition, the neurologic exam is confounded by varying drugs and the large number of catheters that limit access to the patient. This book aims to make neurologists feel more confident in the treatment of transplant patients by systematically reviewing the major neurologic and psychiatric complications that can occur. With the number of transplant surgeries increasing each year, Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplant Recipients is an essential text for all neurologists who are involved or going to be involved in the care of transplant recipients. * Provides clinicians with the knowledge they need to successfully treat the neurologic complications that occur in transplant recipients * Relevant perioperative facts are presented by renowned transplant surgeons specifically focusing on areas of interest to the neurologist * Includes discussion of the psychiatric problems encountered by patients

This volume gathers together important articles written during 1996, taken from over 950 journals. Each article is condensed into a structured summary, and there is also a commentary noting the practical and clinical applications of the material.

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Presents nursing care and related clinical information for patients undergoing transplantation of organs or tissues. Covers all phases from donor selection and preoperative care to post-op critical and acute care to discharge and follow-up care. Discusses the history of transplantation, patient education, psychosocial responses, and legal and ethical considerations. Also addressses immunology of transplantation rejection, immunosuppression, infectious disease, autotransplantation of the adrenal medulla, and renal, liver, cardiac, heart/lung, pancreas, corneal, bone marrow and bone transplantation. Over 30 experienced specialists contribute.