[V Consensus Meeting of the Spanish Society for Liver Transplant on high-risk recipients, immunosupression scenarios and management of hepatocarcinoma on the transplant waiting list].

نویسندگان

  • Fernando Pardo
  • José Antonio Pons
  • Javier Briceño
چکیده

With the aim to promote the elaboration of consensus documents on state of the art topics in liver transplantation with multidisciplinary management, the Spanish Society for Liver Transplantation (SETH) organized the V Consensus Meeting with the participation of experts from all the Spanish liver transplant programs. In this edition, the following topics were revised, and we present the summary: 1. High-risk receptors; 2. Immunosuppression scenarios; and 3. Management of the patient with hepatocarcinoma in the waiting list.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Gastroenterologia y hepatologia

دوره 38 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015