Critical Care for Potential Liver Transplant Candidates / edited by Dmitri Bezinover, Fuat Saner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bezinover, Dmitri, editor.

Saner, Fuat, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Medicine (Springer-11650)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical care medicine.

Hepatology.

Anesthesiology.

Surgery.

Nephrology.

Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Hepatology.

Anesthesiology.

Surgery.

Nephrology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 238 pages) : 26 illustrations, 19 illustrations in color

Edition:

First edition 2019.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book focuses on patients with end-stage-liver disease (ESLD) who could possibly qualify for liver transplant. This patient cohort raises many problems: who should be treated and also, when is it too late for transplant? The authors are all dedicated experts in the field of ESLD/liver transplantation, but from different disciplines with different views of the problem. In the past 15 years many things have changed in the treatment for these patients: cardiac assessment, treatment of porto-pulmonary hypertension, hemodynamics, coagulation assessment and management, diagnosis of kidney failure, and the timing of dialysis. These issues are comprehensively discussed in this book, in order to provide physicians starting in the field of transplantation an overview of different areas of concern. This book is aimed at specialists and trainees in critical care, hepatology, anesthesia, surgery, and nephrology.

Contents:

Cardiac Evaluation and Management

Management of Hyponatremia in End-Stage Liver Disease

Hemodynamic changes and modulation in in patients with acute and chronic liver failure

Pulmonary Evaluation of Liver Transplant Candidates

Sepsis, septic shock in cirrhotic patients

The Hemostatic System in Patients with Cirrhosis, Monitoring of coagulation and Management of Bleeding

Management of thrombosis in liver transplant candidate

Acute kidney injury and hepatorenal syndrome

Critical Care for Potential Liver Transplant Candidates: Ventilation

Management upper GI bleeding in cirrhotic patients

Acute-on-chronic-liver failure

Critical care of the acute liver failure patient

Liver assist systems for bridging to transplantation: Devices and concepts. .

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-319-92934-7

9783319929347

Access Restriction:

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