Practical Manual of Abdominal Organ Transplantation

Cosme Manzarbeitia, MD is the Chairman of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Director of the Liver Transplant Program at the Albert Einstein Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University.

Pretransplant Evaluation and Management.- Indications for Liver Transplantation.- Evaluation of Candidates for Liver Transplantation.- Management of the Patient Awaiting Liver Transplantation.- Pretransplant Evaluation: Kidney and Pancreas.- Psychiatric and Social Workup of the Abdominal Organ Recipient.- The Role of the Transplant Coordinator.- Organ Procurement and Preservation.- Organ Donation and the Allocation System.- Surgical Techniques for Liver Procurement.- Surgical Techniques for Kidney and Pancreas Procurement.- Recipient Operative Techniques and Strategies.- The Liver Transplant Procedure.- The Kidney Transplant Procedure.- The Pancreas Transplant Procedure.- Anesthesia in Abdominal Organ Transplantation.- Immediate Postoperative Care and Complications.- Postoperative Care in Liver Transplantation.- Postoperative Care in Kidney Transplantation.- Postoperative Care in Pancreas Transplantation.- Immunosuppression, Rejection Prophylaxis, and Other Pharmacotherapy of the Transplant Recipient.- Last Postoperative Complications and Outcomes.- General Late Complications in Transplantation.- Organ-specific Late Complications in Transplantation.- Results of Abdominal Organ Transplantation.- Diagnostic Tools in Abdominal Transplantation.- Pathology of Transplantation.- Radiology in Transplantation.- Endoscopy in Liver Transplantation.