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Mathematical approaches to liver transplantation / Eduardo Massad, Eleazar Chaib.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Massad, Eduardo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liver--Transplantation--Mathematical models.
- Liver.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Mathematical models.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Liver--Transplantation.
- Mathematical models.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Mathematical Approaches to Liver Transplantation
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1
- Introduction
- 1.1 TYPOLOGICAL REASONING VERSUS POPULATION REASONING
- 1.2 GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO MODELS THEORY IN BIOLOGY
- 2
- History of liver transplantation
- REFERENCE
- 3
- Causes of liver failure
- 3.1 CHRONIC HEPATIC FAILURE
- 3.2 DEVELOPMENT OF SITUATIONS THAT RISK THE PATIENT'S LIFE
- 3.3 FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE EVOLUTION OF PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE LISTED FOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
- Medical
- Social
- 3.4 DETERIORATING THE QUALITY OF LIFE
- 3.5 STOP OF GROWTH (IN CHILDREN)
- 3.6 ACUTE HEPATIC FAILURE
- 3.7 CONGENITAL ERRORS OF METABOLISM
- 3.8 TUMORS OF THE LIVER
- 3.9 CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL INDICATIONS IN LIVER TRANSPLANT CANDIDATES
- Acute hepatic failure
- Chronic hepatic disease
- Hepatic colestatic disease
- Hepatocellular hepatic disease
- Factors common to both types: colestatic and hepatocellular
- Clinical indications for emergency liver transplantation
- Contraindications to liver transplantation
- Absolute
- Relative
- 4
- Technical and surgical aspects of liver transplantation
- 4.1 DONOR OPERATION
- 4.2 EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL LIVER DONOR
- Clinical history
- Laboratory tests
- 4.3 THE DONOR'S HEPATECTOMY
- Preparation
- Incision
- Operative technique
- 4.4 COMPOSITION OF HEPACTIC PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS
- 4.5 THE RECIPIENT OPERATION
- Operating techniques
- Wall closing
- Principal intraoperative technical care in recipient surgery
- Use of antibiotics in transplantation
- Surgical prophylaxis
- Hemodynamic monitoring and main complications during liver transplantation
- Dissection phase
- Anhepatic phase
- Postanhepathic phase
- Specific complications
- Metabolic acidosis
- Bleeding
- Hypocalcemia
- Hyperpotassemia
- Glycemia
- Arrhythmias in reperfusion
- 5
- The dynamics of waiting list
- 5.1 LIVER TRANSPLANTATION: WAITING LIST DYNAMICS IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Conclusions
- 5.2 COMPARING THE DYNAMICS OF KIDNEY AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION WAITING LIST IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
- Methods and results
- Conclusions
- 6
- Improving grafts allocation
- 6.1 THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF USING DONATIONS AFTER CARDIAC DEATH ON THE LIVER TRANSPLANTATION PROGRAM AND WAITING LIST IN THE ST ...
- Abbreviations
- The model
- The model's simulation
- 7
- Donors after circulatory death
- 7.1 NON-HEART-BEATING DONORS IN ENGLAND
- Introduction
- Notes:
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: MASSAD, EDUARDO. CHAIB, ELEAZAR. MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES TO LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.
- OCLC:
- 1146086106
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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