"Heart Transplantation" ed, by Antonio Loforte, Andrea Montalto, Cristiano Amarelli

The goal of this book is to provide a framework for successful transplant program development and management. The text reflects the global collective efforts of those who have dedicated countless energy to achieving a better understanding of the details that will ultimately yield better outcomes in terms of teamwork.

One of the most challenging scientific steps of the modern era has been the ability to replace, functionally or anatomically, the failing heart, and in December 2017 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the world's first human heart transplant. Despite a long and troubled hystory, heart transplantation has dramatically expanded over time, and is currently the "gold standard" solution in terms of treatment of refractory end-stage heart failure.

Contents
1. Dedicated Initial Giants Breaking the Barriers to Successful Cardiac Transplantation Therapy
2. Heart Transplant: Current Indications and Patient Selection
3. Donor Heart Allocation
4. Heart Transplantation in the Era of the Left Ventricular Assist Devices
5. Role of Short-Term Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices as Bridge-to-Heart Transplantation
6. Surgical Management for Advanced Heart Failure in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
7. Mechanical Circulatory Support as Bridge to Pediatric Heart Transplantation
8. Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Bicaval Versus Biatrial Surgical Technique
9. Heterotopic Heart Transplantation
10. Anesthesia and Intensive Care Management for Cardiac Transplantation
11. Humoral Rejection in Cardiac Transplantation: Management of Antibody-Mediated Rejection
12. Graft Vascular Disease
13. Post-Heart Transplantation Lymphoproliferations
14. Cardiac Re-Transplantation: A Growing Indication with Unique Considerations


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