Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death

Name: Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death
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ISBN: 9780199217335

ISBN-10: 0199217335

ISBN-13: 9780199217335

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Talbot, Anthony D'Alessandro

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This book describes the different uses of donors of organs after cardiac death around the world as different countries have different laws and different logistical issues. Developments have allowed these programmes to flourish such that in the UK 25% of kidney transplants were from such donors in 2006.

Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/12/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

David Talbot is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Salon.com. He and his wife, Camille Peri, live with their two sons in San Francisco, California.

History of non heart beating donation
The legal and moral issues of non heart beating donation
The history of organ perfusion in organ transplantation
Viability testing of kidneys from non heart beating donors
Perfusate development for the non heart beating donor
Thrombolysis in the non heart beating donor
Supplemental cryo-preservation of the donor by peritoneal cooling
Gaseous oxygen to improve viability of marginal or pre-damaged organ grafts during hypothermic storage
ECMO in non heart beating donation: Michigan technique
Renal recipient selection and management after transplant
The renal biopsy in non heart beating organ transplantation
Early results for renal transplants from non heart beating donors
Liver transplantation using non heart beating donors
Lung transplantation from non heart beating donors
Donors without a heart beat in the United States
Non heart beating donation in Europe
Renal and islet transplantation from non heart beating donors in Japan
The current situation and further development
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