Tag Greg J. McKenna

Progress in liver transplantation in essence has been a story of the progress in developing immunosuppressant drugs. Although initial attempts at liver transplantation in Denver and Cambridge in the 1960s and 1970s using azathioprine, steroids, and antilymphocyte globulin had some…

Nowhere else in the realm of liver transplantation have both the advances made in the field and the realities of the surgery been more evident than in the intensive care unit (ICU). The impact of the Model for End-Stage Liver…

The history of liver transplantation is a complicated story to tell—it is a story of great successes and tragic failures. It is a story of both individual heroics and the power of collaboration. It is a story that has many…