Management of Heart and Lung Transplant Patients

A comprehensive text from the leading transplant centres on the medical management of thoracic organ transplantation, covering the assessment of patients for possible transplantation, through to managing patients after transplantation including any possible complications and shared care aspects of long term management

Identification of the suitable heart transplant recipient. Identification of the suitable lung transplant recipient. Medical management of the potential donor. Cardiac transplantation. Choice of procedure and early post-operative management of the lung transplant recipient. Microbiology aspects of heart and heart-lung transplantation. Histopathology of heart and lung transplantation. General management of the heart transplant recipient. Cardiac complications following cardiac transplantation. General management of the lung recipient including aspects of postoperative shared care