Books - Liver Surgery

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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 1387 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Written by experts in the field, this encyclopedia covers surgical procedures and related topics, such as anesthetics, medications, and postoperative care. Entries include definition, purpose, demographic information, diagnosis/preparation, aftercare, risks, morbidity, and mortality rates, alternatives, and more.

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University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Clinical reference on the diagnosis and management of liver cancer metastasized from colorectal cancer. Treatment modalities include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and cryotherapy. For surgeons, oncologists, and hepatologists.

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This concise monograph provides a thorough discussion of hepatic transplantation and clinical management of Cyclosporine-treated patients. It emphasizes use of immunosuppressives and follow-up biopsy. The text explores problems related to Cyclosporine use - those unique to liver transplantation, those exaggerated in the liver transplant patient, and those seen with other uses as well. It discusses how specific conditions such as poor graft function, rejection, and infection affect liver function, and illustrates these phenomena with biopsy findings. Data are based on 70 transplants and over 400 liver biopsies.

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A state-of-the-art overview of the increasingly important role of abdominal imaging in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and protocols. The book is divided into four independent sections covering the gallbladder, biliary tree, liver, and pancreas.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma has attracted increasing interest over recent years. While surgery remains the only curative therapy available, there have been rapid developments in investigative techniques leading to earlier diagnosis and enhanced survival. This comprehensive and in-depth text covers all aspects of presentation, investigation, diagnosis and management. The international team of contributors has been selected to ensure different regional perspectives are given appropriate coverage. Although targeted primarily at clinicians, this book will also appeal to basic scientists working in the field.

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Targeted Therapy provides a detailed repository of the latest information regarding HCC epidemiology, diagnosis, imaging, pathology, staging, and treatment options. This volume also provides an up-to-date guide for treatment that explores not only traditional treatments, but newer investigational treatment options including, surgical resection, liver transplantation, ablation (radiofrequency, microwave), percutaneous ethanol or acetic acid injection, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), intra-arterial radiation therapy, and systemic chemotherapy. Heptocellular Carcinoma: Targeted Therapy will be of great value to all health care professionals and trainees worldwide who have an interest in the diagnosis and treatment of HCC, including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, and pathologists.

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In recent years there has been an increasing need for transplantation, but the number of donor livers available has increased only slightly, despite intensive public relations activities. New concepts in the field of transplantation, for instance the transplantation of living donor organs or the splitting of organs, are urgently required, to safeguard the treatment of patients with severe liver disease. The development and clinical application of cell therapy for patients with liver disease could soon present a significant enhancement of the therapeutic options. The aim of such cell therapy is to repair or improve the biological function of the chronically and acutely damaged liver. Even though systematic trials are not available, individual case reports and small series already show promising clinical results. Present concepts of cell therapy for liver diseases based on the use of primary hepatocytes have recently been considerably extended through new data on the biology of stem cells. The adult haematopoetic stem cell as a pool for hepatocyte grafts -- what would be the perspectives for the clinical application? This book is the proceedings of the Falk Symposium No. 126 on `Hepatocyte Transplantation' (Progress in Gastroenterology and Hepatology Part III) held in Hannover, Germany, October 2--3, 2001, and is a forum for basic research, but also for questions concerning clinical applications in the field of hepatocyte transplantation.

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The rapidly increasing frequency of organ transplantation is causing a severe shortage of donor organs. Hepatocyte transplantation has thus been studied to develop an alternative therapeutic method for patients with various liver diseases. In experimental studies using rodents, transplanted hepatocytes survive and function in ectopic sites for a long period of time. Advances in molecular biology and tissue engineering enables us to manipulate isolated hepatocytes before transplantation. Before clinical application of this new therapeutic method, there are many issues to be resolved, such as determining an optimal location for transplantation, rapid proliferation of transplanted hepatocytes, transplantation in large animals, immunological reactions and long-term gene expression. In this book, authorities on hepatocyte transplantation describe progress in this field and discuss the as yet unsolved problems.