Heart and lung transplantation

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baumgartner, William A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : W.B. Saunders , c2002
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. History of Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation
  • 2. Basic Concepts in Transplantation Immunology and Pharmacologic Immunosuppression
  • 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
  • 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
  • 13. Heart Preservation
  • 14. Lung Preservation
  • 15. Evaluation and Management of Heart Donors
  • 16. Evaluation and Management of Lung Donors
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 29. Management of Acute Heart Rejection
  • 30. Treatment of Acute Lung Allograft Rejection
  • 31. Additional Strategies for Immunosuppression
  • 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
  • 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
  • 42. Living Donor Lung Transplantation
  • 43. Heterotopic Heart Transplantation
  • 44. Xenotransplantation
  • 45. Permanent Mechanical Circulatory Assistance
  • 46. Cardiomyoplasty
  • 47 Unapproved Nonbiologic Immunosuppressants
  • 48. Management of Congestive Heart Failure in the 21st Century