Pathology of Liver Transplantation

The pathologist plays a key role in a liver transplantation program, before transplantation in transplantation candidacy and after transplantation in the recipient care.
The pathologist is required to evaluate different tissue specimens, before and after transplantation, and to answer diagnostic questions.
·	Pre-transplantation
-	Pre-transplant biopsies and outside slides review for correct identification or confirmation of hepatic disease and liver failure 
-	Evaluation of liver biopsy in patients with fulminant liver failure
·	Transplantation
-	Quantification of donor liver steatosis
-	Native hepatoctomy specimens
¨	Undetected or unsuspected hepatocellular or bile duct carcinoma
¨	Radicality in neoplastic patients
¨	Diagnosis in fulminant liver failure
·	Post-transplantation
-	Failed allograft
-	Graft biopsy performed for allograft dysfunction