Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support provides a comprehensive review of the field. Written for all tiers of healthcare professionals managing such complex patients.The handbook tackles all topics within this field, including heart failure, heart transplantation, lung transplantation, and all tiers of mechanical circulatory support in adults and paediatric patients.The chapters are written by prominent and globally respected experts in Europe and North America, providing their evidence base as well as personal, practical hints and tips for all practitioners.
Section 1: Heart Failure; Medical and minimally invasive aspects of heart failure management; Myocarditis: diagnosis and treatment; Cardiac amyloidosis and other restrictive myopathies: diagnosis and treatment; Section 2: Mechanical circulatory support; Indications for ventricular assist devices; Surgical techniques for left ventricular assist device implantation and associated procedures; Clinical trials with durable left ventricular assist devices; Diagnosis and management of ventricular assist device complications; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Percutaneous mechanical circulatory support; The total artificial heart; Post- cardiac surgery cardiogenic shock; Section 3: Heart transplantation; Patient selection criteria and bridging support for cardiac transplantation; Cardiac donor selection and management; Extended criteria heart donors and perfusion storage; Donor heart procurement: donation after brain death and donation after circulatory determined death; Technical aspects of heart transplantation; Critical care management and primary graft dysfunction following cardiac transplantation; Assessment and management of chronic complications following heart transplantation; Bedside care and rehabilitation with mechanical circulatory support and thoracic transplantation; Management of rejection following cardiac transplantation; Antimicrobial prophylaxis and treatment of infection after cardiac transplantation; Section 4: Heart failure in paediatric patients; Heart transplant for paediatric patients; Paediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Paediatric Heart transplant: specific considerations; Section 5: Special considerations in heart transplantation; Adult patients with congenital heart disease; Section 6: Lung transplantation; Patient selection criteria and bridging support for lung transplantation; Lung donor selection and management; Lung procurement following donation after brain death and donation after circulatory death; Ex vivo lung perfusion; Technical aspects of lung transplantation; Critical care management and primary graft dysfunction following lung transplantation; Management of rejection following lung transplantation; Late complications following lung transplantation; Antimicrobial prophylaxis and treatment after lung transplantation; Section 7: Combined transplantation; Combined heart-lung transplantation; Combined thoracoabdominal organ transplantation; Section 8: Anaesthetic considerations; Anaesthetic issues related to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and ventricular assist device procedures; Anaesthetic issues related to heart transplantation; Anaesthetic issues related to lung transplantation;
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