Organ Transplantation

Andrew Klein is Consultant (Anaesthesia and Intensive Care) at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Clive J. Lewis is Consultant Cardiologist and Transplant Physician, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Professor Joren C. Madsen is Director of the MGH Transplant Center, Section Chief for Cardiac Surgery, and W. Gerald and Patricia R. Austen Distinguished Scholar in Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Historical perspectives John Dunning and Roy Calne; 2. Immunological principles of acute rejection Fadi G. Issa, Ryoichi Goto and Kathryn J. Wood; 3. Immunosupression: past, present and future Robert Gaston and Vineeta Kumar; 4. Major complications: 4A. Cancer Bimalangshu R. Dey and Thomas Spitzer; 4B. Pathology of chronic rejection Yael B. Kushner and Robert B. Colvin; 4C. Infection Camille Nelson Kotton; 5. Organ donor management and procurement David Zaas; Part II. Heart: 6. Recipient selection Jayan Parameshwar and R. V. Venkateswaran; 7. Donor heart selection Jonathan G. Zaroff and Kiran K. Kusch; 8. Ventricular assist devices Steven S. L. Tsui and David G. Healy; 9. Surgical procedure D. P. Jenkins and R. V. Venkateswaran; 10. Management during surgery Kate Drummond and Andrew Klein; 11. Postoperative care and early complications Mandeep R. Mehra; 12. Long-term management and outcomes Clive J. Lewis and Harikrishnan Parthasarathy; 13. Pediatric heart transplantation Michael Burch and Jacob Simmonds; Part III. Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation: 14. Recipient selection Jasmir Parmar; 15. Live donor lobar lung donation Hiroshi Date; 16. Surgical procedure Faruk Ozalp, Tanveer Butt and Stefan V. B. Schueler; 17. Management during surgery Peter Slinger; 18. Postoperative care and early complications Leo Ginns; 19. Long-term management and outcomes Paul Corris; 20. Pediatric lung transplantation Samuel Goldfarb and Stuart C. Sweet; Part IV. Liver: 21. Recipient selection Alex Gimson; 22. Living donor live transplantation Koji Hashimoto, Cristiano Quintini and Charles Miller; 23. Surgical procedure Neville Jamieson and Simon Harper; 24. Perioperative care and early complications John Klinck and Andrew Butler; 25. Long-term management and outcomes Graeme Alexander and William Gelson; 26. Pediatric liver transplantation Giorgina Mieli-Vergani and Hector Vilca-Melendez; Part V. Kidney: 27. Recipient selection Ernest I. Mandel and Nina Tolkoff-Rubin; 28. Sensitization of kidney transplant recipients Nick Pritchard; 29. Live donor kidney donation Arthur Matas and Hassan N. Ibrahim; 30. Surgical procedure Paul Gibbs; 31. Perioperative care and early complications John Forsythe and Lorna Marson; 32. Long-term management and outcomes John Firth and S. Mulroy; 33. Pediatric kidney transplantation Khashayar Vakili and Heung Bae Kim; Part VI. Other Abdominal Organs: 34. Pancreatic transplantation Dixon B. Kaufman; 35. Pancreatic islet transplantation James F. Markmann and Heidi Yeh; 36. Intestinal transplantation Stephen Middleton, Simon M. Gabe, Neville Jamieson and Andrew Butler; Part VII. Other: 37. Composite tissue allotransplantation: face transplantation Maria Siemienow and Can Ozturk; 38. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Charles Crawley and Thomas Spitzer; 39. Corneal transplantation Frank Larkin and Yvonne Luo; Part VIII. The Transplant Service: 40. UK and European perspective – legal and operational framework Chris Rudge and Alex Rahmel; 41. US perspective – legal and operational framework Frank Delmonico, Walter Graham and Richard Luskin; 42. Conclusions Clive J. Lewis; Index.