Title | Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children [electronic resource] / edited by Stephen P. Dunn, Simon Horslen |
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Imprint | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019 |
Connect to | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08049-9 |
Descript | 900 p. 250 illus., 200 illus. in color. online resource |
S olid organ transplantation in infants and children: Through the looking glass -- Key differences in recipient characteristics in infants and children -- The Pediatrician and the care of the infant or child before and after solid organ transplantation -- Solid organ transplantation in the pediatric patient: the regulatory environment and it’s requirements -- Evaluation and listing for transplant of the infant or child with end organ failure -- Maintenance of the infant or child with end organ failure -- Growth and development with end organ failure -- Anesthetic considerations for the child undergoing transplantation -- Intensive care of the child after solid organ transplantation -- Pathology of transplanted solid organs -- Immunologic responses of the child to short and long term immunosuppression -- Standard Immunosuppression -- Standard maintenance protocols: Medication, follow up visits, immunizations, sick child calls etc -- Immunosuppressive medication withdrawal -- Health related quality of life -- Late complications -- Progressive allograft injury and chronic rejection -- Nonadherence -- Retransplantation: challenges and strategies -- Transition to the adult care paradigm -- Growing up after a transplant: the child’s perspective -- Raising a child after a transplant: the parent’s perspective -- Continuous improvement in solid organ transplantation in infants and children -- The causes of kidney failure and timing of transplant -- The urine reservoir: evaluation and transplant strategies -- Technical aspects of kidney transplantation in the child -- Living donor kidney transplantation -- Salvage procedures for technical complications after kidney transplantation -- The causes of liver failure and timing of transplant -- Acute hepatic failure: Diagnosis, support and transplantation -- Technical aspects of liver transplantation -- Live donor liver transplantation: pediatric considerations -- Salvage procedures for technical complications after liver transplantation -- Causes of intestinal -- Technical aspects of intestinal transplantation -- Post transplant feeding regimens and monitoring paradigms -- Salvage procedures for technical complications after intestinal transplantation -- Living donor intestinal transplantation -- Causes of cardiac failure and timing of transplant -- Cardiac support devices and their use in infants and children in the overall strategy of cardiac transplantation -- Technical aspects of cardiac transplantation -- Salvage procedures for technical complications of cardiac transplantation -- Causes of lung failure in infants and children and timing of transplant -- Single or double lung transplantation: How to decide -- Combined heart-lung transplantation -- Technical aspects of lung and heart lung transplantation -- Salvage operations for technical complications after lung or heart-lung transplantation