Organ donation and transplantation after cardiac death
By: edited by David Talbot, Anthony M. D'Alessandro ; assistant editor, Paolo Muiesan.
Contributors: Talbot, David, MD, FRCS.; D'Alessandro, Anthony M.; Muiesan Paolo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780199217335
Subjects: Non-heart-beating organ donation; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc; Non-heart-beating organ donation -- Law and legislation; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. History of non-heart-beating donation; title: 2. Legal, moral, and ethical issues; title: 3. History of organ perfusion in organ transplantation; title: 4. Viability testing of kidneys from non-heart-beating donors; title: 5. Perfusate development for the NHBD; title: 6. Thrombolysis in the non-heart-beating donor; title: 7. Supplemental cryopreservation of the donor by peritoneal cooling; title: 8. Gaseous oxygen to improve viability of marginal or pre-damaged organ grafts during hypothermic storage; title: 9. Extracorporeal circulatory-assisted non-heart-beating organ donation; title: 10. Patient selection and management; title: 11. The renal biopsy in non-heart-beating organ transplantation; title: 12. Early results for renal transplants from non-heart-beating donors; title: 13. Liver transplantation using non-heart-beating donors; title: 14. Lung transplantation from non-heart-beating donors; title: 15. Donors without a heart beat in the United States; title: 16. Non-heart-beating donation in Europe; title: 17. Renal and islet transplantation from non-heart-beating donors in Japan; title: 18. The current situation and further development