Contemporary Lung Transplantation

ISBN-13: 9783030361228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 700 str.

Alessandro Bertani; Patrizio Vitulo; Paolo Antonio Grossi

Spis treści

Building a lung transplant program.- The medical challenge of lung transplantation.- Lung transplantation: a job not only for doctors.- Psychological aspects of lung transplantation.- Lung transplantation from a US perspective.- Lung transplantation from an international perspective.- Ethics and legal issues in lung transplantation.- A modern view of transplant immunology and immunosuppression.- Lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis.- Lung transplantation for restrictive lung disease.- Lung transplantation for pulmonary hypertension.- Lung transplantation for COPD and alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency.- Lung TX for connective tissue disorders.- Lung transplantation for rare indications.- Pediatric lung transplantation.- Dealing with difficult bugs. The complex perspective of infectious disease.- Managing the lung transplant waiting list.- Excluding patients from transplantation: a clinical dilemma.- “I got a call”: the assessment of lung donors.- Using HCV donors and other high-risk donors.- Choosing the right patient for LTX: tissue typing, cross-matching and size matching.- Procuring and preserving the lungs.- Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion: promises and reality.- Donation of the lungs after circulatory death.- Artificial bridge to transplantation: why yes, why not, and how.- Anesthesia for lung transplantation.- The choice of medications for a lung transplant recipient: a difficult mix.- Technique and controversies of single lung transplantation.- Technique and controversies of double lung transplantation.- Volume reduction techniques of the graft and results.- Technique and controversies of combined heart-lung transplantation.- Re-transplantation of the lung(s).- Technique and controversies of pediatric lung transplantation.- What pump should I use during surgery?.- Living donor lung transplantation: has the time come?.- Rounding in the Intensive Care Unit after lung transplantation.- Should I go back on ECMO? Management of Primary Graft Dysfunction.- Surgical complications of lung transplantation.- Management of viral infections complicating lung transplantation.- Dealing with bacterial infections after lung transplantation.- Dealing with fungal infections after lung transplantation.- Immunological surveillance after transplantation.- Large airway disease after transplant: one name, many issues.- The complex spectrum of chronic allograft rejection.- Malignancies complicating lung transplantation.- Back to breathing: life after lung transplantation.- Is lung transplantation always an accountable option?.- Building basic and clinical research around transplantation: don’t leave clinical care alone.- Data collection and quality control: the role of scientific societies, OPOs, governmental agencies.- Clinical trials in lung transplantation: what is really needed?.- Long term artificial lung support: will we get there?.

O autorze

Alessandro Bertani, Md, PhD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, ISMETT 

1, Via Tricomi Palermo 90127

Bertani, Alessandro ^<br></div><div>0039 091 2192332

0039 335 8381345