The Pathology of Cardiac Transplantation A clinical and pathological perspective

This is the first book to focus entirely on the role of pathology in cardiac transplantation, linked to the clinical perspective through clinical–pathological correlation, multidisciplinary team working, and collaborative research. It provides a scientific framework with up-to-date pathological prot...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leone, Ornella (Editor), Angelini, Annalisa (Editor), Bruneval, Patrick (Editor), Potena, Luciano (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cardiac transplantation and the contribution of pathology
  • Prior to cardiac transplantation
  • Advanced end-stage heart failure: epidemiology and management
  • Mechanical circulatory support in end-stage heart failure: bridge to transplantation and destination therapy
  • Clinical indications for heart transplantation
  • Pathologies encountered in explanted native hearts
  • Pre-transplant endomyocardial biopsy: when and why
  • Heart donation and peritransplant pathologies
  • Donor selection criteria: clinical and pathological insights
  • Donor organ harvesting and preservation
  • Perioperative damage to the graft
  • Post-cardiac transplantation: the multiple faces of rejection
  • Clinical management of transplant recipients
  • Practical immunology for pathologists
  • Pathology of acute cellular rejection
  • Pathology of antibody mediated rejection
  • Mixed rejection
  • Pathological non rejection findings in the endomyocardial biopsy
  • Non-invasive tools for monitoring allograft rejection: state of the art
  • Cardiac allograft vasculopathy
  • Post-cardiac transplantation: complications other than rejection
  • Infections
  • Tumours
  • Chronic kidney disease after heart transplantation: risk factors, clinics and histopathology
  • Special issues in cardiac transplantation
  • Combined heart transplant
  • The autopsy in heart transplantation
  • Examining a heart with implantable mechanical circulatory support systems.