The Pathology of Cardiac Transplantation A clinical and pathological perspective /

This is the first book to focus entirely on the role of pathology in cardiac transplantation, linked to the clinical perspective through clinical-pathological correlation, multidisciplinary team working, and collaborative research. It provides a scientific framework with up-to-date pathological prot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Leone, Ornella (Editor ), Angelini, Annalisa (Editor ), Bruneval, Patrick (Editor ), Potena, Luciano (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Temas:
Pathology.
Cardiology.
Heart-Surgery.
Immunology.
Cardiac Surgery.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Cardiac transplantation and the contribution of pathology
  • Prior to cardiac transplantation
  • Advanced end-stage heart failure: epidemiology and management
  • Mechanical circulatory support in end-stage heart failure: bridge to transplantation and destination therapy
  • Clinical indications for heart transplantation
  • Pathologies encountered in explanted native hearts
  • Pre-transplant endomyocardial biopsy: when and why
  • Heart donation and peritransplant pathologies
  • Donor selection criteria: clinical and pathological insights
  • Donor organ harvesting and preservation
  • Perioperative damage to the graft
  • Post-cardiac transplantation: the multiple faces of rejection
  • Clinical management of transplant recipients
  • Practical immunology for pathologists
  • Pathology of acute cellular rejection
  • Pathology of antibody mediated rejection
  • Mixed rejection
  • Pathological non rejection findings in the endomyocardial biopsy
  • Non-invasive tools for monitoring allograft rejection: state of the art
  • Cardiac allograft vasculopathy
  • Post-cardiac transplantation: complications other than rejection
  • Infections
  • Tumours
  • Chronic kidney disease after heart transplantation: risk factors, clinics and histopathology
  • Special issues in cardiac transplantation
  • Combined heart transplant
  • The autopsy in heart transplantation
  • Examining a heart with implantable mechanical circulatory support systems. .

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