Lung Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780323960717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

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History of Lung Transplantation
The Lung Transplant Candidate, Indications, Timing, and Selection Criteria
Listing Dilemmas: Age, Frailty, Weight, Preexisting Cancers, and Systemic Diseases
Lung Transplant Procedure of Choice: Bilateral Transplantation Versus Single Transplantation Complications, Quality of Life, and Survival
The Past, Present, and Near Future of Lung Allocation in the United States
Organ Donation, the Non-Perfect Lung Donor, and Variability in Conversion to Transplant
Expanding the Lung Donor Pool: Donation After Circulatory Death, Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion and Hepatitis C Donors
The Highly Sensitized Recipient: Pretransplant and Posttransplant Considerations
Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Diagnosis and Treatment
Critical Care Management of the Lung Transplant Recipient
Conventional and Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation
Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Obstructive and Restrictive Allograft Dysfunction
Opportunistic Infections Post-Lung Transplantation: Viral, Fungal, and Mycobacterial
Common Noninfectious Complications Following Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplantation for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patients and Coronavirus Disease>2019 in Lung Transplant Recipients
Future of Lung Transplantation: Xenotransplantation and Bioengineering Lungs