Essentials of Lung Transplantation (Paperback, 1)

1. Lung transplantation. 1.1 Lung transplantation: where are we today? 1.2? Ethical considerations regarding lung transplantation. 2. Pre-transplant. 2.1? Indications for lung transplantation. 2.2? How to select a good recipient? 2.3? A patient on the waiting list: how to manage and when to transplant. 2.4? How are organs allocated? 2.5? How to select a good donor??3. Peri-transplant. 3.1 Type of lung transplantation. 3.2 Type of procedure. 3.3? ECMO, cardiopulmonary bypass and off-pump. 3.4? What is ischaemia time??3.5? Should we use ex vivo lung perfusion??3.6?? To induce or not? 4. Post-transplant medication and follow-up. 4.1 Maintenance immunosuppression. 4.2 Prophylaxis. 4.3 What to expect after lung transplantation?. 4.4? General follow-up post-transplant. 4.5? Surgery in lung transplant patients. 4.6? Pregnancy and lung transplantation. 4.7 Medication interactions. 5. General post-operative complications and primary graft dysfunction . 5.1Pleural complications. 5.2? Ischaemic airway complications and fistulas. 5.3? Other post-operative complications. 5.4?? Primary graft dysfunction (PGD). 6. Post-transplant complications: rejection. 6.1 Introduction acute and chronic rejection. 6.2? Hyperacute rejection: does it still exist?.6.3? Acute cellular rejection (ACR). 6.4? Donor specific antibodies (DSA): what and how to interpret?6.5? Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR). 6.6? Chronic rejection: chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD). 6.7? Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). 6.8? Restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS). 6.9? Biomarkers and future therapies. 7. Other common post-transplant complications. 7.1 Infections. 7.2 Malignancies. 7.3 Kidney dysfunction. 7.4Metabolic complications and cardiovascular disease. 7.5? Reflux and other gastrointestinal issues: why it matters. 7.6? PRES: posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. 8. Clinical cases. 1.3Clinical case: early post-operative evolution. 1.4 Clinical case: ACR, infection and CLAD . 1.5Clinical case: CMV infection. 1.6? Clinical case: PTLD???