Full Description
Leading physicians summarize in this easy-to-use and eminently practical handbook the day-to-day management of transplant donors and recipients at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Topics covered range from surgical techniques, pathology, and immunosuppression, to posttransplant management, pediatric heart transplantation, surgical alternatives, and mechanical circulatory assistance as a bridge to transplantation. The authors also discuss congenital transplant techniques, state-of-the-art perioperative management techniques and protocols, and UNOS regulation and nurse coordination.
Contents
1 Recipient Selection.- 2 Donor Selection and Management of the High-Risk Donor.- 3 UNOS Policy and Transplant Coordination in Practice.- 4 Techniques of Cardiac Transplantation in Adults.- 5 Techniques of Cardiac Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease.- 6 Pathology and the Transplant Patient.- 7 Posttransplant Management.- 8 Immunosuppression for Cardiac Transplantation.- 9 Long-Term Outcomes With Transplantation.- 10 Pediatric Heart Transplantation.- 11 Surgical Alternatives to Transplantation.- 12 Mechanical Circulatory Assistance As a Bridge to Transplantation.
