摘要
In the beginning of the new millennium, I am de-lighted to read Liver Transplantation, which wasedited by Professor Shu-Sen Zheng and prefacedby Professor Shui-Sheng Xia. In the 21st century, organ transplantationwill become an indispensable and dominant disci-pline in surgery. Despite a short period of deve-lopment in liver transplantation in China, therehave been a dramatic increase in both the numberof liver transplantation cases and the number ofliver transplantation centers. According to the reg-istry of liver transplantation in China, more than800 liver transplantations have been performed.But some surgeons are lack of comprehensiveknowledge about and experience in this field.This book meets their need. Since the pioneering work done by ThomasStarzl four decades ago, the results of liver trans-plantation have been improving. However, prob-lems are existing because of the complexity of its