Comprehensive Textbook on Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease

Authored by renowned expert Yaron D. Barac, “Textbook of Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease” is a contemporary and exhaustive guide that covers all aspects of care for patients with advanced heart or lung disease.

This comprehensive textbook is a valuable resource for medical professionals, featuring contributions from leading experts in the field. It provides an in-depth exploration of the medical and surgical treatment options for patients with end-stage heart and lung disease, including transplantation and mechanical support.

Key Topics Covered

• Historical developments that facilitated heart and lung transplantation
• Engineering advances in continuous flow technologies
• Transplant organizations, oversight, structure, process, databases, and registries in the thoracic transplants and MCS field
• Current strategies in immune modulation, desensitization protocols, and mechanisms of allograft rejection and tolerance/immunosenescence
• Detailed descriptions of donor and recipient surgical procedures, as well as comprehensive implantation techniques for all available short- and long-term mechanical circulatory support devices, including ECMO
• Organ allocation and prioritization, donor evaluation, high-risk donors, marginal donors, and risk assessment

Richly enhanced with summary tables and color illustrations, this book provides an engaging and supportive learning experience for medical students, residents, nurses, perfusionists, physicians, and surgeons involved in the care of patients with end-stage heart and lung disease.

As a highly valuable source of contemporary knowledge, this comprehensive textbook serves as a must-go-to reference for professionals in the field, covering all aspects of advanced heart and lung failure treatment, including shock, short-term and durable mechanical assistance, as well as transplantation.

Expert Endorsements

“This comprehensive book covers all aspects of advanced heart and lung failure treatment… The in-depth information will be welcome by newcomers in the field as well as seasoned veterans.” – Andreas Zuckermann, M.D., Vice-Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Director of Cardiac Transplantation Program, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital

“This comprehensive tour-de-force compendium covers practical issues of clinical administration, program development, care pathways, ongoing challenges, and opportunities in each treatment area… a must-go-to reference for guidance in the rapidly evolving fields of mechanical circulatory support and transplantation.” – Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, MSc, FRCP, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

“This unique textbook authored by key opinion leaders is a refreshing ‘wind of change’ in our field, one that will well serve all professionals involved in the care of end-stage heart and lung patients for many years to come.” – Marcelo Cypel, MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC, Surgical Director, Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN, University of Toronto

Product Details:

Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: August 22, 2023
Language: English
ISBN: 9781119633846, 9781119633853