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What is Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics (Clinical Gastroenterology) about?

Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics grew out of a need I perceived within the fields of transplant hepatology and liver transplantation. Liver transplantation has rightly gained recognition as an established therapy for end-stage liver disease. Few would argue that liver transplantation is one of the few truly lifesaving and life-altering treatments within medicine and surgery. Not many realize that 20 years passed from the time of the first human liver transplantation in 1963 to its acceptance as therapy by the 1983 NIH Consensus Conference on Liver Transplantation. In 2008, 25 years will have passed since the 1983 NIH conference—a mere 25 years for a field that has provided patients hope, doctors options, and to some the “gift of life. ” Many issues in liver transplantation involve indications, patient selection, and outcomes after transplantation—these are standard topics, covered by textbooks of hepatology and transplantation. In contrast, the field of liver tra- plantation is young, evolving, dynamic, and issues and decisions are often controversial. Thus, Dr. Trotter and I, as well as our colleagues at the University of Colorado, felt that a text with

Who reads Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics (Clinical Gastroenterology)?

Author

David A. Bruno, Allan D. Kirk (auth.), James F. Trotter, Gregory T. Everson (eds.)

Publisher

Humana Press : Imprint: Humana

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617377822

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine