Heart and Lung Transplantations, 2nd Edition.

DESCRIPTION

An excellent resource for practitioners who participate in the care of transplant patients, this comprehensive new second edition covers all aspects of heart and lung transplantation. Each area of the field is fully addressed, with documentation and practical points for patient management provided throughout. An especially notable feature of this new edition is the greatly expanded coverage of lung transplantation, with chapters on living related lung transplantation, lung pathology, and more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Background: History and Immunology

1. History of Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation
2. Basic Concepts in Transplantation

Immunology and Pharmacologic Immunosuppression Programmatic Issues

3. Organizational and Financial Aspects of a Multiorgan Transplantation Program
4. Quality of Care: A Clinically Significant, Policy Relevant, and Recurring Issue in Organ Transplantation

Evaluation and Management of Transplant Recipients

5. Clinical Evaluation of Potential Heart Transplant Recipients
6. Clinical Evaluation of Heart-Lung and Lung Transplantation Candidates
7. Psychosocial Evaluation
8. Surgical Alternatives to Cardiac Transplantation
9. Medical and Surgical Alternatives to Pulmonary Transplantation
10. Management of Potential Cardiac Recipients Awaiting Transplantation
11. Management of Patients Awaiting Lung Transplantation
12. Mechanical Circulatory Assistance Before Heart Transplantation

Donor Evaluation and Graft Preservation

13. Heart Preservation
14. Lung Preservation
15. Evaluation and Management of Heart Donors
16. Evaluation and Management of Lung Donors

Anesthetic and Operative Techniques Employed in Thoracic Transplantation

17. Anesthetic Management of Heart and Lung Transplantation
18. Operative Techniques Used in Heart Transplantation
19. Operative Technique of Single-Lung, Bilateral Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplantation

Postoperative Care and Immunosuppressive Monitoring

20. Heart
21. Early Postoperative Care of Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Recipients
22. Nursing Care
23. Monitoring of Cardiac Rejection
24. Monitoring for Lung Allograft Rejection

Biopsy Technique and Histological Analysis

25. History and Current Techniques of Endomyocardial Biopsy
26. Technique and Complications of Endobronchial Biopsy
27. Pathology of Human Cardiac Transplantation
28. Pathology of Lung Transplantation

Immunosuppressive Management

29. Management of Acute Heart Rejection
30. Treatment of Acute Lung Allograft Rejection
31. Additional Strategies for Immunosuppression Morbidity Associated with Transplantation
32. Infectious Complications
33. Lymphoproliferative Disorders and Other Complications After Heart Transplantation
34. Accelerated Graft Arteriosclerosis
35. Obliterative Bronchiolitis After Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation

Long-Term Management and Outcome

36. Heart Transplant Recipient Management
37. Long-Term Management and Outcome of Heart-Lung and Lung Transplant Recipients
38. Physiology and Function of the Transplant Cardiac Allograft
39. Physiology and Function of the Transplant Lung Allograft
40. Retransplantation of the Heart
41. Lung Retransplantation Pediatric Transplantation
42. Living Donor Lung Transplantation

Surgical Alternatives to Orthotopic Allograft Transplantation

43. Heterotopic Heart Transplantation
44. Xenotransplantation
45. Permanent Mechanical Circulatory Assistance
46. Cardiomyoplasty Future Implications
47. Unapproved Nonbiologic Immunosuppressants
48. Management of Congestive Heart Failure in the 21st Century