Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease, 2 Volume Set

Comprehensive step-by-step textbook guiding surgeons through the different stages of heart and lung transplant and support

Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease is the most comprehensive and contemporary textbook available that addresses the medical and surgical treatment options for patients with end-stage heart and lung disease. All facets of these complex and resource-intensive therapies are covered by leading experts – including the basics of transplant immunology, databases, regulatory and ethical aspects of transplantation and conventional modalities of donor organ harvest.

Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease includes further information on topics such as:

• Historical developments that facilitated Heart and Lung transplantation, development of mechanical circulatory support (MCS), and ethics of transplantation
• Transplant organizations, oversight, structure, and process, and databases and registries in the thoracic transplants and MCS field
• Current strategies in immune modulation and desensitization protocols and mechanisms of allograft rejection and tolerance/immunosenescence
• Detailed descriptions of donor and recipient surgical procedures as well as comprehensive implantation techniques for all available short- and long-term mechanical circulatory support devices, including ECMO
• Organ allocation and prioritization, cardiac donor evaluation, high risk donors, marginal donors, and risk assessment

Richly enhanced with summary tables and color illustrations to provide an engaging and supportive learning experience, the book will serve as a highly valuable source of contemporary knowledge for medical students, residents, nurses, perfusionists and medical and surgical physicians with an interest in caring for these desperately ill group of patients.