Liver Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease (Volume 11-2) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine, Volume 11-2)

Despite major advances in the management of liver disease with increasingly effective therapies, most patients with decompensated cirrhosis, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, or fulminant hepatic failure have no prospect for long-term survival short of liver transplantation. As the art and science of liver transplantation have matured the challenges have changed, this issue of the Clinics in Liver Disease reflects those changes.