Contemporary Heart Transplantation

Contemporary Heart Transplantation

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bogar, Linda (Editor), Stempien-Otero, April (Editor)
Summary:text
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Series:Organ and Tissue Transplantation,
Subjects:
Surgery.
Internal medicine.
Anesthesiology.
Internal Medicine.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33280-2
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1: Historical Background
  • History of Heart Transplant
  • Immunosuppression related to transplant
  • Section 2: Pre-operative evaluation process
  • Pathophysiology of heart failure
  • Contraindications to heart transplantation
  • Psycho-Social considerations
  • Multi-disciplinary team input
  • Section 3: Organ Allocation
  • Current Listing System
  • Proposed Changes
  • Matching donor to recipient
  • Section 4: Organ Procurement
  • Organ preservation
  • The donor operation
  • Ex Vivo perfusion.- Section 5: Transplant Operation
  • Surgical techniques
  • Surgical Complications.- Section 6: Anesthesia Management
  • Anesthesia techniques for heart transplant
  • Section 7: Post-operative ICU and hospital management
  • Ventilator management
  • Weaning of inotropes
  • Imaging studies and laboratory testing
  • Physical and Occupational therapy
  • Section 8: Transplant Immunology
  • Induction and maintenance agents
  • Complication of immunosuppression
  • Rejection
  • Section9: Long term outpatient management ofthe heart transplant patient
  • Chronic immunosuppression medications
  • Infection prophylaxis
  • Monitoring for rejection
  • Section 10: Mechanical Support of the pre-transplant patient
  • ECMO
  • LVAD support
  • Section 11: The Contemporary successful Heart transplant program
  • Regulatory agencies
  • Quality measures
  • The financial aspect of the heart transplant program
  • The multi-disciplinary approach
  • Administrative support of the program.- Section 12: Special Topics
  • Re-transplantation
  • Combined Heart transplant with other organ transplantation
  • Section 13,Outcomes Data
  • Survival data
  • Quality of life
  • Chronic rejection
  • Malignancy after transplant
  • Section 14: The future of heart transplantation
  • Advances in immuno suppression
  • Stem cell therapy
  • DCD donor use
  • Will we still be doing heart transplants in 10 years.

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