The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation

ISBN-13: 9780521553544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 324 str.

Paula Trzepacz; Andrea Dimartini

Opis

Over the past forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes associated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from a wide range of disciplines and is the focus of consultation-liaison psychiatry and this book. Pittsburgh, where many of the contributors are based, was and is still a pioneering center for organ transplantation. Dr. Thomas Starzl, who gives an overview of the field, is one of the founding fathers of transplantation surgery.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… should be very useful for the doctors who select patients for organ transplantation or who are involved in the follow-up of these patients. It should be of great interest for psychiatrists and also for psychologists, both of whom, increasingly, are part of organ-transplantation teams.' Didier Houssin, The Lancet

Spis treści

1. The mystique of transplantation: biologic and psychiatric considerations Thomas E. Starzl; 2. Psychosocial screening and selection of candidates for organ transplantation James L. Levenson and Mary Ellen Olbrisch; 3. Psychosocial issues in living organ donation Galen E. Switzer, Mary Amanda Dew and Robert K. Twillman; 4. Quality of life in organ transplantation: effects on adult recipients and their families Mary Amanda Dew, Jean M. Goycoolea, Galen E. Switzer and Aishe S. Allen; 5. Quality of life of geriatric patients following transplantation: short and long term outcomes Maria Paz Gonzalez, Abraham Sudilovsky, Julio Bobes and Andrea F. DiMartini; 6. Pharmacologic issues in organ transplantation: psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatric medication side effects Paula T. Trzepacz, Babu Gupta and Andrea F. DiMartini; 7. Alcoholism and organ transplantation Andrea F. DiMartini and Paula T. Trzepacz; 8. Ethics and images in organ transplantation Grant Gillett; 9. Psychoneuroimmunology and organ transplantation: theory and practice Richard Kradin and Owen Surman; 10. Pediatric transplantation Robert D. Canning and Margaret L. Stuber; 11. Current trends and new developments in transplantation Maureen Martin; Index.