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Organ donation and transplantation after cardiac death /
With the success of organ transplantation and the declining number of heart beating cadaver donors, the number of patients awaiting a transplant continues to rise. This means that alternative sources of donors have been sought, including donors after cardiac death. Such donors sustain rapid damage t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; 1 History of non-heart-beating donation; 2 Legal, moral, and ethical issues; 3 History of organ perfusion in organ transplantation; 4 Viability testing of kidneys from non-heart-beating donors; 5 Perfusate development for the NHBD; 6 Thrombolysis in the non-heart-beating donor; 7 Supplemental cryopreservation of the donor by peritoneal cooling; 8 Gaseous oxygen to improve viability of marginal or pre-damaged organ grafts during hypothermic storage; 9 Extracorporeal circulatory-assisted non-heart-beating organ donation; 10 Patient selection and management.
- 11 The renal biopsy in non-heart-beating organ transplantation12 Early results for renal transplants from non-heart-beating donors; 13 Liver transplantation using non-heart-beating donors; 14 Lung transplantation from non-heart-beating donors--donation after cardiac death (DCD); 15 Donors without a heart beat in the United States; 16 Non-heart-beating donation in Europe; 17 Renal and islet transplantation from non-heart-beating donors in Japan; 18 The current situation and further development; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X.