Clinical Guide to Heart Transplantation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kobashigawa, Jon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.

This handbook is an easy reference for those involved in the management of heart transplant.  While this compilation of best practices cannot address the complexity of the individual patients we care for on a daily basis, it will serve to help us ask the right questions, access the best evidence and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Options for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
• Evaluation of Heart Transplant Candidacy
• Listing Criteria and Process
• Optimal Management of Patients on the Heart Transplant Waiting List
• Histocompatibility Testing and Cross Matching
• The Sensitized Patient Awaiting Heart Transplantation
• Donor Organ Preservation and Surgical Considerations in Heart Transplantation
• Immediate Post-Operative Period
• Immunosuppression Strategies in Heart Transplantation
• Rejection Surveillance and Treatment in the First Year
• Out-Patient Management of the Heart Transplant Patient
• Long-Term Complications in Heart Transplantation
• The Total Artificial Heart
• Chimerism and Tolerance
• Genomics In Heart Transplantation
• The Future of Heart Transplantation.