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Author Massad, Eduardo.

Title Mathematical approaches to liver transplantation / Eduardo Massad, Eleazar Chaib
Published London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2020

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Contents Front Cover -- Mathematical Approaches to Liver Transplantation -- 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 -- Incision -- 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 ... -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- The model -- The model's simulation -- Conclusions -- 7 -- Donors after circulatory death -- 7.1 NON-HEART-BEATING DONORS IN ENGLAND -- Introduction
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Subject Liver -- Transplantation -- Mathematical models
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Mathematical models
Liver -- Transplantation.
Mathematics.
Liver Transplantation
Mathematics
mathematics.
applied mathematics.
Mathematics
Liver -- Transplantation
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Mathematical models
Form Electronic book
Author Eleazar, Chaib
ISBN 0128174374
9780128174371