Liver Transplantation Challenging Controversies and Topics

The field of liver transplantation is young, evolving, dynamic, and issues and decisions are often controversial, thus a text with a different focus is required, one that highlights controversy and challenges dogma. In Liver Transplantation: Challenging C

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CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY GEORGE Y. WU, SERIES EDITOR Liver Transplantation: Challenging Controversies and Topics, edited by Gregory T. Everson and James F. Trotter, 2009 Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disease, edited by Mark H. DeLegge, 2008 Cholestatic Liver Disease, edited by Keith D. Lindor and Jayant A. Talwalker, 2007 Portal Hypertension: Pathobiology, Evaluation, and Treatment, edited by Arun J. Sanyal and Vijay H. Shah, 2005 Pancreatitis and Its Complications, edited by Chris E. Forsmark, 2005 Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Karen E. Kim, 2003 Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics, edited by Russell D. Cohen, 2003 An Internist’s Illustrated Guide to Gastrointestinal Surgery, edited by George Y. Wu, Khalid Aziz, Lily H. Fiduccia, and Giles F. Whalen, 2003 Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Diagnosis and Therapeutics, edited by Raymond S. Koff and George Y. Wu, 2001 Diseases of the Gastroesophageal Mucosa: The Acid-Related Disorders, edited by James W. Freston, 2001

LIV ER TRANSP LANTATION CHALLENGING CONTROVERSIES AND TOPICS Edited by

Gregory T . Ev erson, MD University of Colorado, D enver, USA

and

Jam es F. T rotter, MD University of Colorado, D enver, USA

Editors Gregory T. Everson, MD University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Div. Gastroenterology & Hepatology 1635 N. Ursula, B-154 Aurora, CO 80045 [email protected]

James F. Trotter, MD University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Div. Gastroenterology & Hepatology 1635 N. Ursula, B-154 Aurora, CO 80045 [email protected]

Series Editor George Y. Wu, MD, PhD University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut

ISBN: 978-1-58829-793-8

e-ISBN: 978-1-60327-028-1

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