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In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Luis Angel and Stephanie M. Levine bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Lung Transplantation. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as difficult decisions to transplant patients who are older, frail, underweight and obese; organ donation and variability in conversion to lung transplantation; conventional and novel approaches to immunosuppression; acute rejection and chronic allograft dysfunction; and more. Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including COVID-19 and lung transplantation; the lung transplant candidate: indications, timing and selection criteria; bilateral lung transplantation vs. single lung transplant: complications, quality of life, and survival; critical care management of the lung transplant recipient; and more.  Provides in-depth clinical reviews on lung transplantation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.  Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews. 

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Author:   Luis Angel, MD (Director of Lung Transplantation, Professor of Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center) ,  Stephanie M. Levine, MD (UT Health San Antonio, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine)
Publisher:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780323960717

ISBN 10:   0323960715
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

History of Lung Transplantation The Lung Transplant Candidate, Indications, Timing, and Selection Criteria Listing Dilemmas: Age, Frailty, Weight, Preexisting Cancers, and Systemic Diseases Lung Transplant Procedure of Choice: Bilateral Transplantation Versus Single Transplantation Complications, Quality of Life, and Survival The Past, Present, and Near Future of Lung Allocation in the United States Organ Donation, the Non-Perfect Lung Donor, and Variability in Conversion to Transplant Expanding the Lung Donor Pool: Donation After Circulatory Death, Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion and Hepatitis C Donors The Highly Sensitized Recipient: Pretransplant and Posttransplant Considerations Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Diagnosis and Treatment Critical Care Management of the Lung Transplant Recipient Conventional and Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Obstructive and Restrictive Allograft Dysfunction Opportunistic Infections Post-Lung Transplantation: Viral, Fungal, and Mycobacterial Common Noninfectious Complications Following Lung Transplantation Lung Transplantation for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patients and Coronavirus Disease>2019 in Lung Transplant Recipients Future of Lung Transplantation: Xenotransplantation and Bioengineering Lungs

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