Lung Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 44-1 - February 21, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editors: Luis Angel, Stephanie M. Levine
- Language: English
In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Luis Angel and Stephanie M. Levine bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Lung Transplantation. Top… Read more
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In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Luis Angel and Stephanie M. Levine bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Lung Transplantation. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as difficult decisions to transplant patients who are older, frail, underweight and obese; organ donation and variability in conversion to lung transplantation; conventional and novel approaches to immunosuppression; acute rejection and chronic allograft dysfunction; and more.
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Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including COVID-19 and lung transplantation; the lung transplant candidate: indications, timing and selection criteria; bilateral lung transplantation vs. single lung transplant: complications, quality of life, and survival; critical care management of the lung transplant recipient; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on lung transplantation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Pulmonologists
History of Lung Transplantation
The Lung Transplant Candidate, Indications, Timing, and Selection Criteria
Listing Dilemmas: Age, Frailty, Weight, Preexisting Cancers, and Systemic Diseases
Lung Transplant Procedure of Choice: Bilateral Transplantation Versus Single Transplantation Complications, Quality of Life, and Survival
The Past, Present, and Near Future of Lung Allocation in the United States
Organ Donation, the Non-Perfect Lung Donor, and Variability in Conversion to Transplant
Expanding the Lung Donor Pool: Donation After Circulatory Death, Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion and Hepatitis C Donors
The Highly Sensitized Recipient: Pretransplant and Posttransplant Considerations
Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Diagnosis and Treatment
Critical Care Management of the Lung Transplant Recipient
Conventional and Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation
Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Obstructive and Restrictive Allograft Dysfunction
Opportunistic Infections Post-Lung Transplantation: Viral, Fungal, and Mycobacterial
Common Noninfectious Complications Following Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplantation for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patients and Coronavirus Disease>2019 in Lung Transplant Recipients
Future of Lung Transplantation: Xenotransplantation and Bioengineering Lungs
The Lung Transplant Candidate, Indications, Timing, and Selection Criteria
Listing Dilemmas: Age, Frailty, Weight, Preexisting Cancers, and Systemic Diseases
Lung Transplant Procedure of Choice: Bilateral Transplantation Versus Single Transplantation Complications, Quality of Life, and Survival
The Past, Present, and Near Future of Lung Allocation in the United States
Organ Donation, the Non-Perfect Lung Donor, and Variability in Conversion to Transplant
Expanding the Lung Donor Pool: Donation After Circulatory Death, Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion and Hepatitis C Donors
The Highly Sensitized Recipient: Pretransplant and Posttransplant Considerations
Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Diagnosis and Treatment
Critical Care Management of the Lung Transplant Recipient
Conventional and Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation
Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Obstructive and Restrictive Allograft Dysfunction
Opportunistic Infections Post-Lung Transplantation: Viral, Fungal, and Mycobacterial
Common Noninfectious Complications Following Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplantation for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patients and Coronavirus Disease>2019 in Lung Transplant Recipients
Future of Lung Transplantation: Xenotransplantation and Bioengineering Lungs
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 44-1
- Published: February 21, 2023
- Language: English
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Luis Angel
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Lung Transplantation, Professor of Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical CenterSL
Stephanie M. Levine
Affiliations and expertise
UT Health San Antonio, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine