Mathematical Approaches to Liver Transplantation

Eduardo Massad is Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Chartered Mathematician (IMA-UK), Chartered Scientist (SciCoun-UK), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has almost 40 years of experience in applying mathematical methods to medical problems and is co-editor of the Elsevier’s book Global Health Informatics: How Information Technology Can Change Our Lives in a Globalized World. Eleazar Chaib is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgery, UK. Former Honorary Registrar (1991-1993), Department of Surgery Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge Clinical School of Medicine, United Kingdom. He has 35 years of experience in liver transplantation

1. Introduction2. History of liver transplantation3. Patient selection for liver transplantation4. Transplantation procedure5. The dynamics of waiting list6. Improving grafts allocation7. Donors after circulatory death8. Live donors liver transplantation9. The MELD scale