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Edited by Ronald W. Busuttil and Goran B. Klintmalm. 903 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $250. ISBN 0-7216-4942-4.

More than 6000 liver transplantations are performed annually in the United States and Europe, so the subject has now become important in both medicine and surgery and deserving of this truly magnum opus, which weighs 5 lb (2.3 kg) and has 85 chapters with contributions from 125 authors.

The foreword, by Thomas Starzl, traces the beginnings of liver transplantation, the most complicated organ-transplant operation, and the dreadful early results 30 years ago. Improvement was slow and stuttering, but a sudden change followed the introduction of cyclosporine in 1980. Appropriately, the book is dedicated to Starzl, and he in turn applauds . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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