"Heart Transplantation: New Insights in Therapeutic Strategies" ed. by Norihide Fukushima

This book presents recent information in the field of heart transplantation. The readers will find this book a useful resource because of its summarization of relevant details and issues that will facilitate the acquisition of emerging new information in each area of heart transplantation.

Since the first heart transplantation was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa in 1967, there has been steady progress in terms of recipient selection, donor selection and management, surgical technique, preoperative management, immunosuppression, mechanical circulatory support during waiting for heart transplantation, especially in the last two decades.
The book includes chapters that address such topics as novel immunosuppression therapy and the role of transplant pharmacists, donor management and intervention for primary graft failure, mechanical circulatory, diagnostic modalities for cardiac allograft vasculopathy, surgical techniques, pediatric heart transplantation, and gene therapy.

Contents
1. Donor Assessment and Management for Heart Transplantation
2. Primary Graft Dysfunction after Heart Transplantation
3. Hepatic and Endocrine Aspects of Heart Transplantation
4. Durable Ventricular Assist Device for Bridge to Transplantation
5. Heart Transplant after Mechanical Circulatory Support
6. The Role of Large Impella Devices in Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Patients Undergoing Heart Transplantation
7. Pediatric Heart Transplantation
8. Evolution of Heart Transplantation Surgical Techniques
9. Induction Therapy in the Current Immunosuppressive Therapy
10. Role of the Transplant Pharmacist
11. Limited Sampling Strategies to Monitoring Mycophenolic Acid Exposure in a Heterogeneous Population of Heart Transplant Recipients: A Pilot Study
12. Diagnostic Intravascular Imaging Modalities for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
13. Gene Therapy for Cardiac Transplantation


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