The pathology of cardiac transplantation : a clinical and pathological perspective /: a clinical and pathological perspective. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ornella Leone, Annalisa Angelini, Patrick Bruneval, Luciano Potena, editors.
• Editors: Leone, Ornella; Angelini, Annalisa; Bruneval, Patrick; Potena, Luciano
• Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1: Cardiac Transplantation and the Contribution of Pathology; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Prior to Cardiac Transplantation; 1.3 Heart Donation and Peritransplant Pathologies; 1.4 The Multiple Faces of Rejection; 1.4.1 Acute Cellular Rejection; 1.4.2 Antibody-Mediated Rejection; 1.4.3 The Biopsy and Noninvasive Markers of Acute Rejection; 1.4.4 Chronic Rejection; 1.5 Nonrejection Pathology; 1.6 Scope of the Pathology Service; 1.7 Ensuring High Standards of Practice in Pathology; References Part II: Prior to Cardiac Transplantation2: Advanced End-Stage Heart Failure: Epidemiology and Management; 2.1 Definition and Epidemiology; 2.2 Management; 2.2.1 Medical Treatment; 2.2.2 Electric Therapy and Other Implantable Devices; 2.2.3 Mechanical Circulatory Support; 2.2.4 Other Surgical Therapies; 2.2.5 Palliative Treatment; 2.2.6 Transplantation; References; 3: Mechanical Circulatory Support in End-Stage Heart Failure: Bridge to Transplantation and Destination Therapy; 3.1 Background; 3.2 Devices; 3.2.1 Left Ventricular Devices (Extracorporeal, Implantable) 3.2.2 Biventricular Devices (Extracorporeal, Implantable)3.2.2.1 Pulsatile Extracorporeal BVAD (Berlin Heart Excor); 3.2.2.2 Continuous-Flow Implantable BVAD; 3.2.3 Total Artificial Heart; 3.3 Survival, Long-Term Effects, and Complications; 3.3.1 Thrombo-embolic and Bleeding Complications; 3.3.2 Pump Malfunction; 3.3.3 Effects of Pulseless Continuous-Flow Circulation (Aortic Valve, End-Organs, Blood Components); 3.3.4 Exit Site Driveline or Cannula- Related Infection; References; 4: Clinical Indications for Heart Transplantation; 4.1 Background; 4.2 Prognostic Assessment 4.3 Recipient Selection Criteria4.4 Risk Factors and Contraindications to Heart Transplantation; 4.4.1 Pulmonary Hypertension and Vasoreactivity Test; 4.4.2 Potential Contraindications and Risk Factors of Poor Survival for Heart Transplantation; 4.4.3 Special Considerations; 4.4.3.1 Renal Dysfunction; 4.4.3.2 Malignancies and Infections; 4.4.3.3 Comorbidities; 4.4.3.4 Psychosocial Evaluation; 4.5 Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS); References; 5: Pathologies Encountered in Explanted Native Hearts; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Ischemic Heart Disease 5.2.1 Background and Incidence in Explanted Hearts5.2.2 Specific Technical Pathology Points; 5.2.2.1 Examination of Coronary Arteries; 5.2.2.2 Evaluation of Stents; 5.2.2.3 Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts; 5.2.2.4 Examination of Myocardium; 5.2.3 Pathologic Substrates; 5.2.3.1 Coronary Atherosclerosis; Histopathological Classification; Pathologic Assessing of Stenosis Degree in Coronary Atherosclerosis; Coronary Luminal Thrombus Formation; Healed Plaque Rupture and Total Occlusion; 5.2.3.2 Coronary Stents; In Stent Neo-Intima Formation; Late Stent Thrombosis; In Stent Neo-atherosclerosis
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 450 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 617.4/120592; Medicine; Heart -- Transplantation; MEDICAL / Surgery / General; MEDICAL / Cardiology; Heart -- Transplantation; Heart Transplantation; Medical -- Cardiology; Medical -- Surgery -- Thoracic; Medical -- Immunology; Cardiovascular medicine; Cardiothoracic surgery; Immunology; Pathology; Cardiology; Heart -- Surgery; Immunology; Medical -- Pathology; Pathology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319463865; 3319463861; 3319463845; 9783319463841
• Related ISBNs: 9783319463841
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 14, 2017).
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