Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children
A new textbook of transplantation for infants and children is needed that is at least a first effort at achieving standard work in this field. Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children provides a broad view of the current practice of solid organ transplantation in pediatric patients. It fo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Series: | Organ and Tissue Transplantation
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- challenges and strategies
- Transition to the adult care paradigm
- Growing up after a transplant: the child’s perspective
- Raising a child after a transplant: the parent’s perspective
- Continuous improvement in solid organ transplantation in infants and children
- The causes of kidney failure and timing of transplant
- The urine reservoir: evaluation and transplant strategies
- Technical aspects of kidney transplantation in the child
- Living donor kidney transplantation
- Salvage procedures for technical complications after kidney transplantation
- The causes of liver failure and timing of transplant
- Acute hepatic failure: Diagnosis, support and transplantation
- Technical aspects of liver transplantation
- Live donor liver transplantation: pediatric considerations
- Through the looking glass
- Key differences in recipient characteristics in infants and children
- The Pediatrician and the care of the infant or child before and after solid organ transplantation
- Solid organ transplantation in the pediatric patient: the regulatory environment and it’s requirements
- Evaluation and listing for transplant of the infant or child with end organ failure
- Maintenance of the infant or child with end organ failure
- Growth and development with end organ failure
- Anesthetic considerations for the child undergoing transplantation
- Intensive care of the child after solid organ transplantation
- Pathology of transplanted solid organs
- Immunologic responses of the child to short and long term immunosuppression
- Standard Immunosuppression
- Standard maintenance protocols: Medication, follow up visits, immunizations, sick child calls etc
- Immunosuppressive medication withdrawal
- How to decide
- Combined heart-lung transplantation
- Technical aspects of lung and heart lung transplantation
- Salvage operations for technical complications after lung or heart-lung transplantation