The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. The Concept and Diagnosis of Brain Death

   • E. G. Warner

   Pages 1-4

3. Medico-Legal Aspects

   • S. S. Sanbar

   Pages 5-10

4. Donor Organ Availability and Transplant Coordination

   • J. S. Chaffin, L. Mischke

   Pages 11-17

5. Selection and Management of the Donor

   • D. K. C. Cooper, I. L. Paradis

   Pages 19-34

6. Selection and Evaluation of the Potential Thoracic Organ Transplant Recipient - General Considerations

   • D. K. C. Cooper, N. K. Imes, D. P. Nelson

   Pages 35-41

7. Pretransplant Immunological Considerations

   • E. D. DuToit, M. Oudshoorn, D. M. Smith

   Pages 43-55

8. Immunobiology of Allograft Destruction

   • M. H. Sayegh, D. R. Salomon

   Pages 57-67

9. Maintenance Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy and Potential Major Complications

   • K. L. Tyndall, D. K. C. Cooper

   Pages 69-83

10. Trends in Immunosuppressive Therapy With Regard to Cytolytic Induction Therapy and Corticosteroid Withdrawal

    • J. Kobashigawa

    Pages 85-88

11. Tacrolimus (FK506) in Thoracic Organ Transplantation

    • J. S. Gammie, S. M. Pham

    Pages 89-95

12. Infection in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Organ Transplantation: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Clinical Management

    • S. J. Thaler, R. H. Rubin

    Pages 97-110

13. Malignant Neoplasia in the Immunocompromised Patient

    • I. Penn

    Pages 111-117

14. Long-Term Management and Late Complications of the Thoracic Organ Transplant Recipient

    • D. P. Nelson, N. K. Imes, D. K. C. Cooper

    Pages 119-130

15. Psychiatric Aspects

    • E. S. Nash, D. K. C. Cooper

    Pages 131-135

16. Medico-social Aspects

    • W. D. Paris, S. E. Thompson, N. J. Brawner, M. L. Penido, M. J. Bright, C. M. Robertson

    Pages 137-140

17. Nutrition and Diet

    • M. Kanoski

    Pages 141-147

18. A Commentary on Quality of Life after Thoracic Organ Transplantation

    • M. M. Edgar

    Pages 149-152

19. Experimental Development and Early Clinical Experience

    • D. K. C. Cooper

    Pages 153-160

20. Selection and Management of the Potential Candidate for Cardiac Transplantation

    • L. W. Stevenson

    Pages 161-176

It is a great pleasure for me to contribute a few words as an achieved by many heart transplant centers and the ever improving results of lung transplantation and the functioning of mechanical introduction to the second edition of this volume, first published in 1990 when it was edited by David Cooper and Dimitri cardiac assist devices. Novitzky. The first edition was, in fact, a greatly expanded The current editors bring a wealth of expertise and experience version of an even earlier volume Heart Transplantation, edited to their task, and have blended together absolutely superb con­ by David Cooper and Robert Lanza and published in 1984. This tributions by many of the world's experts in their fields. This first work, authored by members of the medical staff of Groote comprehensive and highly readable volume documents the Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town Medical present 'state of the art' in the field of transplantation and School, was, I believe, the first volume reviewing this relatively replacement of thoracic organs. It provides an invaluable and un­ new field of medicine. paralleled source of information for those concerned with heart and lung medicine or surgery, and is essential reading for all who The present volume, therefore, continues the documentation of wish to keep abreast of developments in this field.

• Bypass
• Surgery
• heart
• heart transplantation
• hypertension
• lung
• organ transplantation
• transplantation

`Few books become `the reference' textbook in their first edition. David Cooper has brought together the wealth of experience of the leading authorities in Cardiothoracic transplantation medicine and in this second edition he consolidates this. This is a comprehensive and readable review of the `state of the art' ... For the cardiovascular surgeons it is a textbook worth dipping into ... excellent reviews on operative technique and post-operative management .. Technophiles will find the last section on current and future advanced in thoracic organ replacement a delight ... the book is an excellent review ... '
Ulster Medical Journal, 67:1 (1998)

• Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston

  David K. C. Cooper

• Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, USA

  David K. C. Cooper

• St Louis University Health Sciences Center, St Louis, USA

  Leslie W. Miller

• Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA

  G. Alexander Patterson

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