BOOKS

Abhinav, Humar, M.D., I. Hertz Marshall, M.D., Laura J., Blakemore, M.D., eds. Manual of Liver Transplant Medical Care. Minneapolis, MN: Fairview Press, 2002.

Beauchamp, Daniel R., M.D., Mark B. Evers, M.D.,...

Kenneth L. Mattox, M.D., Courtney M. Townsend, and David C. Sabiston, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice, 16th ed. London: W. B. Saunders Co., 2001.

Lawrence, Peter F., Richard M. Bell, and Merril T. Dayton, eds. Essentials of General Surgery, 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

PERIODICALS

Brown, R.S., Jr., M. W. Russo, M. Lai, M. L. Shiffman, M. C. Richardson, J. E. Everhart, et al. "A survey of liver transplantation from living adult donors in the United States."New England Journal of Medicine 348, no. 9 (February, 2003):818–25.

Goldstein, M. J., E. Salame, S. Kapur, M. Kinkhabwala, D. La-Pointe-Rudow, N. P. P. Harren, et al. "Analysis of failure in living donor liver transplantation: differential outcomes in children and adults."World Journal of Surgery 27, no. 3 (2003):356–64.

Kelly, D. A. "Strategies for optimizing immunosuppression in adolescent transplant recipients: a focus on liver transplantation."Paediatric Drugs 5, no. 3 (2003):177–83.

Longheval, G., P. Vereerstraeten, P. Thiry, M. Delhaye, O. Le Moine, J. Deviere, et al. "Predictive models of short- and long-term survival in patients with nonbiliary cirrhosis."Liver Transplantation: Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 9, no. 3 (March, 2003):260–7.

Neff, G. W., A. Bonham, A. G. Tzakis, M. Ragni, D. Jayaweera, E. R. Schiff, et al. "Orthotopic liver transplantation in patients with human immunodeficiency virus and end-stage liver disease."Liver Transplantation: official publication of the American Association for the Study ofLiver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 9, no. 3 (March, 2003):239–47.

Papatheodoridis, G. V., V. Sevastianos, and A. K. Burrouhs. "Prevention of and treatment for hepatitis B virus infection after liver transplantation in the nucleoside analogues era."American Journal of Transplantation 3, no. 3 (March, 2003):250–8.

Rudow, D. L., M. W. Russo, S. Haflige, J. C. Emond, and R. S. Brown, Jr. "Clinical and ethnic differences in candidates listed for liver transplantation with and without potential living donors."Liver Transplantation: Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 9, no. 3 (March, 2003):254–9.

Wong, F. "Liver and kidney diseases."Clinics in Liver Disease 6, no. 4 (November, 2002):981–1011.

ORGANIZATIONS

American Liver Foundation. 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 603, New York, NY. 10038. (800) 465-4837 or (888) 443-7872. Fax: (212) 483.8179. info@liverfoundation.org. .

Hepatitis Foundation International (HFI). 504 Blick Drive, Silver Spring, MD. 20904-2901. (800) 891-0707 or (301) 622-4200. Fax: (301) 622-4702. hfi@comcast.net.

National Digestive Diseases, Information Clearinghouse. 2 Information Way, Bethesda, MD. 20892-3570. nddic@info.niddk.nih.gov.

National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland. 20892. (301) 496-4000. NIHInfo@OD.NIH.GOV.

United Network for Organ Sharing. 500-1100 Boulders Parkway, P.O. Box 13770. Richmond, VA. 23225. (888) 894-6361 or (804) 330-8500.

OTHER

U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Liver Transplantation. 2003 [cited March 13, 2003]. .