Nutrition Support in Transplantation and Postoperative Recovery

Dear Colleagues,

I am hoping that this Special Issue of the journal Nutrients will attract a multidisciplinary group of authors (and readers) given the importance of the topic. Transplantation medicine and transplantation surgery represent critical situations of life and death where the transplant team is frequently pushed to the limit in order to achieve a successful result. At the same time, the physiological, immunological, and surgical burden for the transplant recipient is enormous given the frail nature of these patients. It should be no surprise that in these difficult situations, the nutritional status of the patient, both pre- and post-operatively, is critical in order for the surgery to have a successful outcome. The recent progress in our understanding of nutritional needs and balance as well as the different modes of administration of the different types of nutrition only serve to make the choice of the right type of nutrition for the right patient a necessity. This becomes even more complicated if we consider that given that the different types of transplantation (depending on the organ or tissue), the recipients face different health challenges and thus have different nutritional needs. The overall goal of this Special Issue is to address these challenges for the various organs transplanted, as well as propose different nutritional strategies based on the experience of the authors.

Dr. Georgios Tsoulfas
Guest Editor

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