Editorial: Before and after Liver Transplantation

Abstract

All around the world, several transplant centres are involved in a complex medical and surgical management of the candidates for liver transplantation. In Italy too, this is a consolidated practice, even if affected by the shortage of donors and available organs to be transplanted. The education about the importance of the donation and a better clinicians’ awareness of the procedures, the risks and the benefits of liver transplantation, will improve the administration of this precious health resource.