Clinical Guide to Heart Transplantation

1. Medical and Device Options for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
Michele Hamilton, Michelle Kittleson, Jon Kobashigawa

2. Mechanical and Surgical Options for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
Jaime Moriguchi

3. Evaluation for Heart Transplant Candidacy
Jon Kobashigawa, Minh Luu, Christine Sumbi

4. Listing, Donor Allocation and Optimization of the Pre-transplant Patient
Michelle Kittleson, Jon Kobashigawa, Minh Luu

5. Overview of Transplantation Immunobiology
Xiaohai Zhang, Nancy Reinsmoen, Jon Kobashigawa

6. The Sensitized Patient Awaiting Heart Transplantation
Jignesh Patel, Jon Kobashigawa

7. Donor Organ Preservation and Surgical Considerations in Heart Transplantation
Fardad Esmailian, Paul Perry, Jon Kobashigawa

8. Physiology of the Transplanted Heart
Jon Kobashigawa, Michael Olymbios

9. Immediate Post-operative Management After Heart Transplantation
Jon Kobashigawa, Minh Luu

10. Immunosuppression Strategies in Heart Transplantation
Jon Kobashigawa, Minh Luu

11. Managing Infections in Cardiac Transplantation
Phillip Zakowski

12. Cardiac Allograft Rejection, Surveillance and Treatment
David Chang, Jon Kobashigawa

13. Outpatient Management and Long-Term Complications in Heart Transplantation
David Chang, Jon Kobashigawa, Minh Luu

14. Quality of Life After Heart Transplantation
Jon Kobashigawa, Michael Olymbios

15. Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Special Considerations
Jon Kobashigawa, Michael Olymbios

16. Combined Heart and Other Organ Transplant
Jon Kobashigawa, Michael Olymbios, Minh Luu

17. The Total Artificial Heart
Francisco Arabia

18. The Future of Heart Transplantation
Jon Kobashigawa

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology