Critical Care of the Lung Transplant Recipient
Critical Care of the Lung Transplant Recipient Luis F. Angel Stephanie M. Levine Over the past three decades, lung transplantation (LT) has become a successful therapeutic option for patients with…
Nutritional Therapy in the Critically Ill Patient
Nutritional Therapy in the Critically Ill Patient Dominic J. Nompleggi The nutritional management of critically ill patients has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. Changes in the areas of…
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Paul A. Carpenter Marco Mielcarek Ann E. Woolfrey General Principles Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) typically is performed in patients with life-threatening disorders of the hematopoietic system. The…
Critical Care of the Liver and Intestinal Transplant Recipients
Critical Care of the Liver and Intestinal Transplant Recipients Ruy J. Cruz Jr William D. Payne Abhinav Humar Introduction The field of liver transplantation has undergone remarkable advances in the…
DiagnosisandManagement of Rejection, Infection, and Malignancy in Transplant Recipients
DiagnosisandManagement of Rejection, Infection, and Malignancy in Transplant Recipients Tun Jie David L. Dunn Rainer W.G. Gruessner Allograft rejection in transplant recipients is the side effect of the complex and…
Management of the Organ Donor
Management of the Organ Donor Christoph Troppmann In 2009, nearly 10,000 patients on the national organ transplant waiting list in the United States died or were de-listed because they had…
Care of the Pancreas Transplant Recipient
Care of the Pancreas Transplant Recipient Robert M. Esterl Jr Gregory A. Abrahamian David E.R. Sutherland Raja Kandaswamy Type 1 diabetes mellitus has two treatments: (a) exogenous insulin administration or…
Specific Critical Care Problems in Heart and Heart–Lung Transplant Recipients
Specific Critical Care Problems in Heart and Heart–Lung Transplant Recipients Sara J. Shumway Eias E. Jweied The advent of thoracic organ transplantation has brought new hope to patients who were…
Critical Care Problems in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Critical Care Problems in Kidney Transplant Recipients Mark L. Sturdevant Rainer W.G. Gruessner Introduction A kidney transplant (KTx) remains the most definitive and durable solution for patients reaching end-stage renal…
Immunosuppression in Solid-Organ Transplantation
Immunosuppression in Solid-Organ Transplantation Amit Basu Arthur J. Matas Abhinav Humar Clinically successful solid-organ transplantation required breakthroughs in our understanding of immunology and immunosuppressive therapy. Alexis Carrel, in the early…
