Heart and Lung Transplantation

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