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Perioperative Management after Liver Transplantation

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There is wide variation in perioperative management of liver transplantation in children. Apart from age and disease-specific factors, every institute has its own protocol [1]. The indications for liver transplantation (LT) can be broadly classified into acute liver failure (ALF), chronic liver disease (CLD), metabolic liver disease (MLD) and liver tumours [2]. The overall principles of perioperative care remain the same with minor variations based on disease type. Perioperative management can be divided into preoperative assessment, intraoperative management and postoperative care.

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  1. Dr Rela Institute & Medical Centre, Chennai, India

    Naresh Shanmugam

  2. Paediatric Liver, GI and Nutrition Center and Mowat Labs, King’s College Hospital, London, UK

    Anil Dhawan

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  1. Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY, USA

    Ron Shapiro

  2. Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Minnie M. Sarwal

  3. Department of Nephrology, Akron General Medical Center at Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Akron Children’s Hospital, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  4. Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

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Shanmugam, N., Dhawan, A. (2023). Perioperative Management after Liver Transplantation. In: Shapiro, R., Sarwal, M.M., Raina, R., Sethi, S.K. (eds) Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6909-6_30

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