Transplantationskirurgi

This book is the first to provide balanced examination of both pediatric liver disease and liver transplantation two topics that are inherently related, given that most chronic liver disorders eventually require organ replacement. The different fo...

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Immunology is a branch of biology that studies immune systems and malfunctions of the immune system such as in immune deficiencies, autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities and transplant rejection. A key area of medical management is the study of ...

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Bone disease, particularly osteoporosis, has emerged as a common and serious complication of solid organ transplantation. In recent years there have been real advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bone loss, howe...

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Over the past decade, there has been rapid growth in bioengineering applications in the field of spine implants. Spine Technology Handbook explains the technical foundation for understanding and expanding the field of spine implants, reviews the m...

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There have been tremendous strides in cellular transplantation in recent years, leading to accepted practice for the treatment of certain diseases, and use for many others in trial phases. The long history of cellular transplantation, or the trans...

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Regenerative Medicine Applications in Organ Transplantation illustrates exactly how these two fields are coming together and can benefit one another. It discusses technologies being developed, methods being implemented, and which of these are the ...

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Personalized Immunosuppression in Transplantation: Role of Biomarker Monitoring and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring provides coverage of the various approaches to monitoring immunosuppressants in transplant patients, including the most recently develo...

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This book is aimed at all trainees in surgery, and emphasizes the principles of diagnosis and management based on a knowledge of basic science and applied physiology. From a working diagnosis, the book leads the reader through investigation and as...

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This book reviews the many difficult and complex ethical issues which arise in the care of people whose kidneys have failed irreversibly. These include fairness in allocating costly dialysis and the limited supply of kidneys for transplantation; c...

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The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework. This attributes their most enduring significance to the triple themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of sca...

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The majority of patients in need of organ transplants do not survive long enough for a suitable human organ to become available. Xenotransplantation, the transplant of animal organs into humans, has attracted substantial media attention. If, as ap...

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Ronald Munson plunges us into the tense and tangled world of organ transplantation. Using vivid, often gut-wrenching cases as points of departure, Munson shows us how transplants are performed, decisions are made, and ethical and social issues ari...

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Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the be...

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This book is the first comprehensive exploration of the burgeoning American tissue transplantation industry. It explains the organization and technical developments in the tissue industry, the expanding clinical uses of donated human skin, bones, ...

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In the late 1980s, a promising new treatment for breast cancer emerged: high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation or HDC/ABMT. By the 1990s, it had burst upon the oncology scene and disseminated rapidly before having been ...

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When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap. Today, we are no closer to the goal of adequate organ supply without living donors--if anything, the supply-dem...

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This book describes the different uses of donors of organs after cardiac death around the world, based on different laws and logistical issues around the world. Developments have allowed these programmes to flourish such that in 2006 25% of UK kid...

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This new edition provides an authoritative account of the current status of whole organ pancreas transplantation and islet and pancreatic stem cell transplantation, reflecting recent advances in the field, including the growing interest in stem ce...

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Issues surrounding organ transplantation are hotly and publicly debated: for it raises unique ethical questions regarding the rights and responsibilities of donors. Leading moral philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards provides a sharp analysis, diss...

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Transplantation is a medically successful and cost-effective way to treat people whose organs have failed--but not enough organs are available to meet demand. T. M. Wilkinson explores the major ethical problems raised by policies for acquiring org...

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Critiquing key papers in the field, Landmark Papers in General Surgery gives surgeons and trainees an expert appraisal and contextual discussion of the evidence base behind current clinical practice, all in a clear and easy-access layout.

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The Oxford Textbook of Transplant Anaesthesia and Critical Care has been written by international pioneers in the field in order to equip anaesthetists and intensivists with the knowledge necessary to provide evidence-based care.

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In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They argue systematically that physicians legitimately cause the death of...

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More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual - often anonymous - may be spared. But, as the demand...

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Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face and the changing stakes for the face in both co...

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A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon author of 'Life on a Knife's Edge' 'This is a joyful romp through a fascinating slice of medical history' WENDY MO...

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"Dr. Farhat Moazam has written a wonderful book, based on her extraordinary first-hand study. . . . [S]he is an exceptionally gifted and evocative writer. Her book not only has the attributes of a superb piece of intellectual work, but it has...

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As a major transplantation center, the University of Pittsburgh has conducted more than 300 liver transplants. Because the problems faced by an institution contemplating the initiation of such an organ transplantation program are many, unique, and...

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The possibility of treating patients with organ replacement therapy has created a new frontier in medical care. Hospitals have to deal with such vital issues as selecting potential recipients of transplants, ensuring equity in allocating organs, p...

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From a background in ethnography, Israeli teacher Ben-David aims to understand the meaning of organ donation and transplantation from the perspectives of the three major partners involved: donors, recipients, and the medical teams. The participati...

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