Artificial Liver

Editor Lanjuan Li is a professor at The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, and the director of State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. She is also an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Introduction of artificial liver.- Liver Structure .- Liver Function .- Liver regeneration and tissue engineering.- Causes of liver injury.- Pathogenesis of liver injury and hepatic failure.- Liver pathology.- Laboratory evaluation of hepatic failure.- Imaging examination of hepatic failure.- Diagnosis of hepatic failure.- Internal medical treatment of hepatic failure.- Function mechanism of artificial liver.- Non-biological artificial liver.- Practice standards and management of artificial liver treatment.- Indications and contraindications of artificial liver treatment.- Complications and their prevention of artificial liver treatment.- Efficacy and its evaluation of non-biological artificial liver.- Biological artificial liver.- Hybrid artificial liver.- Cell transplantation therapy of hepatic failure.- Artificial liver and liver transplantation.- Future development of artificial liver.