Meet the editors

Dr Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a two-year transplantation surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and then joined the

Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and in PubMed, as well as 29 book chapters. He is a reviewer for over 60 international journals and is on the editorial board of several others. His clinical and research interests include hepatobiliary surgery, primary and secondary hepatic malignancies, ischemia/reperfusion injury, as well as medical/surgical education and the use of technology.

He is currently the Vice Chair of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons and the World President of the International College of Surgeons.

Dr. Luis Rodrigo MD was Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has been the Chief of Gastroenterology Service at the HUCA Hospital in Oviedo for more than 40 years. He obtained his PhD in 1975 and has a long teaching and research career. He has published a total of 585 scientific papers, 310 written in English with the rest in Spanish. He has participated as main investigator in a total of 45 clinical trials

and has directed 40 doctoral theses. He has contributed actively to the formation of approximately one hundred specialists in gastroenterology working in his hospital and other hospitals in Spain and abroad. He has written approximately 35 chapters in books of several subjects and has been the editor of 22 books in his specialty and related diseases.

Contents

**Section 1**

Ammonia

*by Monjur Ahmed*

**Section 2**

**Preface III**

Hepatic Physiology Affecting Hepatic Surgery **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 75**

Role of Surgery in the Management of Hepatic Diseases **101**

**Chapter 6 103**

**Chapter 7 119**

Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy: Silent Tragedy

*by Edwin Jin Su Lee and Jonathan C. Huang*

The Neurobiology of Hepatic Encephalopathy *by Daniel Simplicio Torres, Jefferson Abrantes* 

Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Surgery

HCC in Cirrhotic and Non-cirrhotic Liver: Timing to Surgery

*Leonardo Luca Chiarella, Katia Fazzi and Michele Di Martino*

*by Maria Eugenia Cornide-Petronio, Mónica B. Jiménez-Castro,* 

*by Mirela Patricia Sîrbu Boeți, Beatrice Tivadar, Ioana G. Lupescu, Vlad Herlea, Mirela Boroș, Dana Tomescu and Vladislav Brașoveanu*

*by Stefania Brozzetti, Simone Bini, Chiara D'Alterio, Chiara De Lucia,* 

Ischemic Preconditioning Directly or Remotely Applied on the Liver to Reduce Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Resections and Transplantation

*by Gamal Shiha and Nasser Mousa*

*and Carlos Eduardo Brandão-Mello*

and Outcome - State of the Art

*Jordi Gracia-Sancho and Carmen Peralta*

Challenging Issues in Hepatic Adenoma
