The Kovler Organ Transplantation Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital publishes the Liver Review throughout the year.
Kidney/Pancreas Review Publications:
April 2008
February 2007
Liver Review Publications:
April 2008
April 2006
Spring 2005
Spring 2004
Transplant Manuals:
Liver and Intestine Transplantation
Most practicing physicians encounter only a few transplant recipients during a year of practice. This manual was written as a quick, but comprehensive, reference for practicing physicians and transplant professionals who interface intermittently with recipients and transplant teams. It contains 11 chapters presenting the standard of practice and also controversial issues such as the ethical dilemma of long waiting lists, the living organ donor, organ banks and the national transplant network's criteria for allocating organs to potential recipients.
Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Cell Transplantation
Most practicing physicians encounter only a few transplant recipients during a year of practice. This manual was written as a quick, but comprehensive, reference for practicing physicians transplant professionals who interface intermittently with recipients and transplant teams. It contains nine chapters and eight essays; together they present the standard of practice and also controversial issues such as the ethical dilemma of long waiting lists, noncompliance with long-term immunosuppression, the relationship between acute and chronic rejection, the living organ donor, the older cadaver donor, laparoscopic nephrectomy, organ banks and the national transplant network's criteria for allocating organs to potential recipients.
