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Management of pre–liver transplantation patient—Part 2

✍ Scribed by Pratima Sharma; Jorge Rakela

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
128 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis

Liver transplantation (LT) has grown dramatically over last 2 decades and the hepatologist has had to assume a larger role in managing the potential candidate awaiting surgery. In part 1 of this review, we described the pre-LT evaluation process, contraindications of LT, general care, and treatment of various etiologies of liver disease prior to LT. In this part, we review the management of liver-specific complications that are responsible for significant morbidity and waitlist mortality of LT candidates.

Gastric Variceal Bleeding

No specific measures are available to prevent 1st bleeding from gastric varices. Most of the current regimens to treat gastric varices are derived from anecdotal evidence

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