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Author:   G.M. Collins ,  J.-M. Dubernard ,  Walter Land ,  G. Persijn
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Weight:   0.841kg
ISBN:  

9789401062800

ISBN 10:   9401062803
Pages:   381
Publication Date:   06 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I: Donor Conditioning and Surgery.- 1 Living kidney donation: preoperative evaluation and preparation for surgery.- 2 Kidney recovery from living related donors.- 3 Anaesthesia and resuscitation of the genetically related living donor in liver transplantation.- 4 Living-related liver transplantation (LRLT).- 5 Diagnosis of brain death.- 6 Selection of multivisceral cadaveric organ donors.- 7 Management of the cadaver donor in the intensive care unit.- 8 Donor conditioning in organ procurement.- 9 Perioperative management of cadaveric donor.- 10 Multiple organ procurement.- 11 The contribution of the non-heart-beating donor to the solution of the shortage of kidneys.- Section II: Organ Preservation.- 12 Biochemistry and cell physiology of organ preservation.- 13 Preservation by simple hypothermia.- 14 Pulsatile preservation in renal transplantation.- 15 Endothelial cell damage and Kupffer cell activation in reperfusion injury to livers stored for transplantation.- 16 Pharmacological agents in organ preservation.- 17 Kidney preservation.- 18 Liver preservation: historical review of preservation techniques.- 19 Heart and lung preservation.- 20 Small bowel preservation.- 21 Pancreas preservation.- Section III: Allocation and Logistics.- 22 Principles of kidney allocation.- 23 Principles of liver allocation in Eurotransplant.- 24 Principles of heart allocation.- 25 Kidney allocation in highly sensitized patients.- 26 Principles of lung allocation.- 27 Organization and logistics in organ exchange.- 28 Costs of transplantation.- 29 The role of the transplant coordinator.- 30 Organ availability in Europe: problems and results.- 31 Donor hospital development in non-university hospitals.- 32 Kidney preservation and graft outcome: Eurotransplant experience.- 33 Primary dysfunction after orthotopic liver transplantation.- 34 Results of intestinal transplantation.- 35 Cardiac transplant survival in relation to preservation.- Section IV: Ethics and Legislation in Organ Donation.- 36 Voluntarism and coercion in living organ donation.- 37 Reimbursement, ‘rewarded gifting’, financial incentives and commercialism in living organ donation.- 38 International legislation in living organ donation.- 39 Psychological aspects in living organ donation.- 40 Brain death.- 41 A survey of religious attitudes towards organ donation and transplantation.- 42 Philosophical arguments for accepting the brain death criterion.- 43 Legal and judicial aspects of postmortem organ donation.- 44 The dilemma of organ allocation: the combination of a therapeutic modality for an ill individual with the distribution of a scarce valuable public (health) good.- 45 Living unrelated kidney transplantation.

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