Contemporary Pancreas and Small Bowel Transplantation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shah, Ashesh Piyush (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Doria, Cataldo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lim, James W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Organ and Tissue Transplantation,
• Subjects: Surgical transplantation.; Gastroenterology .; Transplant Surgery.; Gastroenterology.

Intestinal transplantation remains on the cutting edge of solid organ transplantation. Each potential recipient provides a unique case of intestinal failure with individual intricacies requiring the combined efforts of a complex multidisciplinary team in order to achieve success. Contemporary Small...

Table of Contents:

• History of Multivisceral Transplantation
• Modern TPN
• Central line management and intestinal failure
• Intestinal rehab v intestinal transplantation
• MVT: Indications and contraindications
• MVT: Complications
• MVT: The operation
• The donor operation
• Pathology of Intestinal Transplantation
• Viral infections after intestinal transplantation
• Post multivisceral malignancy
• Graft v host disease after multivisceral transplant
• Autotransplantation
• UNOS and bowel transplantation
• NET and Multivisceral Transplantation
• Cell therapy, tissue engineering and intestinal failure
• Live donor intestinal transplantation
• The role of the Transplant Coordinator
• Psychosocial issues in intestinal transplantation.