Organ transplantation
Subtitle: a clinical guide
By: edited by Andrew Klein, Clive J. Lewis, Joren C. Madsen
Series: Cambridge medicine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521197533
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Transplantation immunology; Transplantation Immunology; Transplantation of organs, tissues; Organ Transplantation
Description: "Organ Transplantation: A Clinical Guide covers all aspects of transplantation in both adult and pediatric patients. Cardiac, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas and small bowel transplantation are discussed in detail, as well as emerging areas such as face and pancreatic islet cell transplantation. For each organ, chapters cover basic science of transplantation, recipient selection, the transplant procedure, anesthetic and post-operative care, and long-term follow-up and management of complications. Important issues in donor selection and management are also discussed, including recruitment and allocation of potential donor organs and expanding the donor pool. Summary tables and illustrations enhance the text, and long-term outcome data are provided where available. Written by expert transplant surgeons, anesthetists and physicians, Organ Transplantation: A Clinical Guide is an invaluable multidisciplinary resource for any clinician involved in transplantation, providing in-depth knowledge of specialist areas of transplantation and covering the full range of management strategies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section one : General.; title: Historical perspectives / John Dunning and Roy Calne; title: Immunological principles of acute rejection / Fadi G. Issa, Ryoichi Goto, Kathryn J. Wood; title: Immunosupression : past, present and future / Vineeta Kumar, Robert S. Gaston; title: Major complications : cancer / Bimalangshu R. Dey, Thomas Spitzer; title: Major complications : pathology of chronic rejection / Yael B. Kushner and Robert B. Colvin; title: Major complications : infection / Camille Nelson Kotton; title: Organ donor management and procurement / Edward Cantu III, David W. Zaas; title: Section two : Heart.; title: Recipient selection / R.V. Venkateswaran, Jayan Parameshwar; title: Donor heart selection / Kiran K. Khush, Jonathan G. Zaroff; title: Ventricular assist devices / David G. Healy, Steven S.L. Tsui; title: Surgical procedure / R.V. Venkateswaran, David P. Jenkins; title: Management during surgery / Kate Drummond,  Andrew A. Klein; title: Postoperative care and early complications / Mandeep R. Mehra; title: Long-term management and outcomes / Hari K. Parthasarathy, Clive J. Lewis; title: Pediatric heart transplantation / Jacob Simmons, Michael Burch; title: Section three : Lung.; title: Recipient selection / Jasmir S. Parmar; title: Live donor lobar lung transplantation / Hiroshi Date; title: Surgical procedure / Faruk Ozalp, Tanveer Butt, Stefan V.B. Schueler; title: Management during surgery / David Ip, Peter Slinger; title: Postoperative care and early complications / Vlad Vinarsky, Leo C. Ginns; title: Long-term management and outcomes / Paul Corris; title: Pediatric lung transplantation / Stuart C. Sweet, Samuel Goldfarb; title: Section four : Liver.; title: Recipient selection / Alex Gimson; title: Living donor live transplantation / Koji Hashimoto, Cristiano Quintini, Charles Miller; title: Surgical procedure / Simon J.F. Harper, Neville V. Jamieson; title: Perioperative care and early complications / John Klinck, Andrew J. Butler; title: Long-term management and outcomes / William Gelson, Graeme Alexander; title: Pediatric liver transplantation / Hector Vilca-Melendez, Giorgina Mieli-Vergani; title: Section five : Kidney.; title: Recipient selection / Ernest I. Mandel, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin; title: Sensitization of kidney transplant recipients / Nick Pritchard; title: Live donor kidney donation / Arthur J. Matas, Hassan N. Ibrahim; title: Surgical procedure / Paul Gibbs; title: Peri-operative care and early complications / Lorna Marson, John Forsythe; title: Long-term management and outcomes / Sharon Mulroy, John D. Firth; title: Pediatric kidney transplantation / Khashayar Vakili, Heung Bae Kim; title: Section six : Other abdominal organs.; title: Pancreatic transplantation / Dixon B. Kaufman; title: Pancreatic islet transplantation / Heidi Yeh, James F. Markmann; title: Intestinal transplantation / Stephen J. Middleton, Simon M. Gabe, Neville Jamieson, Andrew J. Butler; title: Section 7 : Other.; title: Composite tissue allotransplantation : face transplantation / Maria Siemienow, Can Ozturk; title: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Charles Crawley, Thomas R. Spitzer; title: Corneal transplantation / Yvonne H. Luo, Frank Larkin; title: Section eight : The transplant service.; title: UK and European service : legal and operational framework / Chris J. Rudge and Alex O. Rahmel; title: US transplant service : legal and operational framework / Walter K. Graham, Richard S. Luskin, Francis L. Delmonico; title: Conclusions / Clive J. Lewis