A Gift of Life: Observations on Organ Transplantation
ISBN: 9789401158954 / Angielski / Miękka / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past few years the transplantation of organs in man has received publicity unprecedented in medical history. The first heart grafts were covered by press, radio, and television on a scal~ equiva- lent to the news of the outbreak of a major war. Unwarranted and extravagant optimism has been followed by bitter criticism. This has undermined public confidence in the medical profession and seriously impeded progress in an important endeavour aimed at reducing human suffering. This unfortunate situation has arisen from widespread ignorance amongst the public and the medical profession of...
In the past few years the transplantation of organs in man has received publicity unprecedented in medical history. The first heart grafts were covere...
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191,40 zł |
Surgical Options for the Treatment of Heart Failure
ISBN: 9789401741422 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the significant decline in heart disease mortaht>' rates over the last 25 years, heart failure has remained a significant problem. We are now confronted with large numbers of terminally ill patients for whom conventional therapies for heart failure have been exhausted and for whom repeated hospital visits are necessary. There now is a major thrust towards a management strategy which embraces a comprehensive approach including vigorous preventive measures and earlier surgical interventions. This book outlines the major surgical options for the treatment of heart failure and brings...
Despite the significant decline in heart disease mortaht>' rates over the last 25 years, heart failure has remained a significant problem. We are now ...
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382,84 zł |
Local Immunosuppression of Organ Transplants
ISBN: 9783662221075 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time a complete review of the research work done over the past 30 years by leading investigators around the world in targeting immunosuppressants to both solid-organ and cellular transplants is available in a single volume. One section consists of studies conducted in rat allograft models using osmotic minipumps for delivery of a variety of immunosuppressants. The book will be of great benefit to researchers in the fields of transplant immunology, pharmacology and drug delivery and targeting, particularly those involved in drug development.
For the first time a complete review of the research work done over the past 30 years by leading investigators around the world in targeting immunosup...
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191,40 zł |
Late Graft Loss: Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, 3-5 June, 1996
ISBN: 9789401062862 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In all varieties of organ transplants, early results have dramatically improved over the past two decades and failures due to acute rejection are becoming rarer. Efficient immunosuppressive regimens have been developed with the objective of very good results at 1, 3 and 5 years.
Successful transplants, however, are significantly less frequent at 10 and 20 years, and many patients require retransplantation. Many factors are involved in late graft loss and it is now well recognized that, in addition to chronic rejection, a number of non-immunologic factors play a prominent role. In the... In all varieties of organ transplants, early results have dramatically improved over the past two decades and failures due to acute rejection are beco...
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765,72 zł |
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in Liver Transplantation
ISBN: 9783642629501 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume on liver transplantation is unique in the range of its coverage. Following introductory chapters on surgical and radiological anatomy, separate sections are devoted to organ donors and to adult and pediatric recipients. Surgical indications and techniques, the role of radiological modalities, and the treatment of complications are all fully discussed and illustrated.
This volume on liver transplantation is unique in the range of its coverage. Following introductory chapters on surgical and radiological anatomy, sep...
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765,72 zł |
Kidney Transplantation: Practical Guide to Management
ISBN: 9781493903412 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the increased prevalence of kidney transplantation, transplant recipients are being treated in a variety of clinical settings often beyond the transplant center.There is a greater need for clinicians and allied healthcare professionals to have appropriate guidance on managing these patients. Kidney Transplantation offers the latest evidence-based information on the full range of dilemmas in the medical management of kidney transplant recipients before, during and after transplantation.Beginning with the selection of patients who are candidates for transplantation, this... With the increased prevalence of kidney transplantation, transplant recipients are being treated in a variety of clinical settings often beyond the... |
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765,72 zł |
On Face Transplantation: Life and Ethics in Experimental Biomedicine
ISBN: 9781137452719 / Angielski / Twarda / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself. This sophisticated account traces the work done by medical and bureaucratic elites to make the life threatening operation a clinical reality. Working within the context of increasing ethical scrutiny, their endeavour has resulted in the delineation...
Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medica...
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191,40 zł |
Core Concepts in Renal Transplantation
ISBN: 9781489989437 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though kidney transplantation is considered a routine procedure, there are still significant challenges in post-transplant management. Core Concepts in Renal Transplantation is a clinically focused authoritative guide to the management of kidney transplantation. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference summarizes the recent changes in the field of transplantation, offering the complete range of up-to-date information on all the various aspects of basic immunobiology and the medical care of the transplant recipient. Written by a team of renowned authorities in renal... Though kidney transplantation is considered a routine procedure, there are still significant challenges in post-transplant management. Core Conc... |
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421,13 zł |
Basic, Clinical, and Surgical Nephrology
ISBN: 9781461296164 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique volume may very well foreshadow the treatment of renal disease in the twenty-first century. The editors have obviously compiled and reviewed the current clinical problems in which the kidney plays a major role. They then selected as topics for chapters those in which recent scientific investigations have added significant new data. The investigators themselves or their peers have been persuaded to produce a summary of current concepts of renal structure and function for each topic. The result is a volume which will be as invaluable as a clinical guide on the laboratory bench as it...
This unique volume may very well foreshadow the treatment of renal disease in the twenty-first century. The editors have obviously compiled and review...
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765,72 zł |
Stem Cell Biology in Health and Disease
ISBN: 9789400791138 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stem Cell Biology in Health and Disease presents an up-to-date overview about the dual role of stem cells in health and disease. The Editors have drawn together an international team of experts providing chapters which, in this fully-illustrated volume, discuss: - the controversial debate on the great expectations concerning stem cell based regeneration therapies raised by the pluripotency of various stem cells. Stem Cell Biology in Health and Disease presents an up-to-date overview about the dual role of stem cells in health and disease. T... |
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574,29 zł |
Transplantation of Neural Tissue Into the Spinal Cord
ISBN: 9781489992253 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book gives an account of results obtained from experiments where grafts of neuronal, glial and other tissues as well as artificial materials were placed into the spinal cord. It attempts to evaluate the contributions made by these studies to our understanding of basic neurobiologies questions. These include factors that regulate neuronal growth during development as well as regenera tion following injury to the nervous system. The model of neural transplanta tion is also useful for the study of cell-to-cell interactions, and this applies to interactions between glial cells and neurones,...
The book gives an account of results obtained from experiments where grafts of neuronal, glial and other tissues as well as artificial materials were ...
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574,29 zł |
Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
ISBN: 9780147515339 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better, a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fields
The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate... For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better, a pi...
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104,08 zł |
Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage: Challenges and Solutions
ISBN: 9783319164403 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem. It presents 29 contributions from a highly interdisciplinary group of world experts and upcoming professionals in the field. Every year thousands of patients die while waiting for organ transplantation. Health authorities, medical professionals and bioethicists worldwide point to the urgent and yet unsolved problem of organ shortage, which will be even intensified due to the increasing life expectancy. Even though the practical problem seems to be well known, the search for... This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem. It presents 29 contributions from a h... |
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382,84 zł |
Legal Basis of Global Tissue Banking: A Proactive Clinical Perspective
ISBN: 9789814663434 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The banking of human tissues for clinical transplantation has grown exponentially in the past 10-15 years.
The banking of human tissues for clinical transplantation has grown exponentially in the past 10-15 years.
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513,51 zł |
Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
ISBN: 9780813574424 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation--the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Heinemann points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency--and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical equipment advance--most of the transplant process now takes place at...
The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation--the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after...
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160,80 zł |
Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
ISBN: 9780813574431 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation--the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Heinemann points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency--and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical equipment advance--most of the transplant process now takes place at...
The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation--the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after...
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643,19 zł |
Plastische Chirurgie: Forschung, Handchirurgie, Rhinoplastik, Gesichtstransplantation
ISBN: 9783662488485 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der funfte Band der Plastischen Chirurgie stellt die aktuellen Entwicklungen auf diesem Gebiet der Medizin dar und erganzt die bisherigen Bande. Spezialisten befassen sich mit der Wiederherstellung des Gesichts durch Fremdgewebstransplantation, der sekundaren Rhinoplastik sowie der Plexus- und Handchirurgie. Forschungsergebnisse zur Fettgewebstransplantation und zu Stammzellen sowie mogliche Anwendungen werden besprochen sowie neue Techniken zur Darstellung kortikaler Aktivitaten bei peripheren Nervenverletzungen, Weichteilsarkome und Korperformung nach Gewichtsverlust, Einsatz von... Der funfte Band der Plastischen Chirurgie stellt die aktuellen Entwicklungen auf diesem Gebiet der Medizin dar und erganzt die bisherigen Bande. |
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Topics in Transplantation Imaging, an Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America: Volume 54-2
ISBN: 9780323416634 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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539,40 zł |
Kidney Transplantation: Practical Guide to Management
ISBN: 9781493942725 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the increased prevalence of kidney transplantation, transplant recipients are being treated in a variety of clinical settings often beyond the transplant center.There is a greater need for clinicians and allied healthcare professionals to have appropriate guidance on managing these patients. Kidney Transplantation offers the latest evidence-based information on the full range of dilemmas in the medical management of kidney transplant recipients before, during and after transplantation.Beginning with the selection of patients who are candidates for transplantation, this... With the increased prevalence of kidney transplantation, transplant recipients are being treated in a variety of clinical settings often beyond the... |
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574,29 zł |
Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage: Challenges and Solutions
ISBN: 9783319347547 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem.
This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem.
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382,84 zł |