Controversies in Thoracic Surgery, an Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics: Volume 33-2

Ajlan, Amr M

Handbook of Transradial Interventions

Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support provides a comprehensive review of the field. Written for all tiers of healthcare professionals managing such complex patients. <p/>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. <p/>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.

Bhalla, Sanjeev

With the success of organ transplantation and the declining number of heart beating cadaver doctors, the number of patients awaiting a transplant continues to rise. This means that alternative sources of donors have been sought, including donors after cardiac death. Such donors sustain rapid damage to their organs due to ischaemia, and as a consequence, some organs do not work initially and some none at all. The proportion of such transplants has increased dramatically in recent years--25% of kidney transplants in the UK were from such donors in 2006, highlighting how much progress has been made. <p/> Written by international experts, this book lays out the moral, legal, and ethical restraints to using such donors for organ transplant together with the techniques that have been adpoted to improve their outcome. The different approaches and results of renal transplant according to country are covered together with the procedures and outcomes adopted to use other organs, notably the liver and lungs.

Wilkinson, Jonathan