Heart and lung transplantation 2000
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Heart and lung transplantation 2000
(Medical intelligence unit)
R.G. Landes, c1993
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Description
Intrathoracic transplantation became a therapeutic reality in the 1980s. The 1990s are witnessing a rapid growth in the fields of double and single lung and lobar transplantation. This book features contributions from experts active in intrathoracic transplantation that project what they anticipate as advances in the year 2000.
Table of Contents
- Social, economic and insurance issues in heart transplantation
- heart donor management
- selection and management of the lung donor
- medical complication of lung transplantation
- long term follow-up and rehabilitation of heart transplant patients
- long term morphological changes in heart and heart-lung allograft recipients
- non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac rejection
- antibiotic prophylaxis and management of infectious complications
- virologic diagnoisis and treatment
- immunosuppression following cardiac transplantation
- novel approaches to immunosuppression
- neonatal heart transplantation
- artificial organs
- cardiac xenotransplantation.
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