Kidney Transplantation: Overview
1902 Vienna Medical School Austria: Kidney transplantation in animals • Dr. Emerich Ullman: Autotransplant in a dog from normal position to vessels in the neck • Dr. Alfred von Decastello:…
Postoperative Care of Heart Transplant Patients
Cause End diastolic area End systolic area Contractility Other findings Hypovolaemia ↓↓ ↓ Normal Vasoplegia Normal ↓↓ Normal LV dysfunction Normal or ↑ ↑ ↓↓ If severe, spontaneous echo contrast…
Heart Transplant Patient Selection and Preparation
Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy 54 % Ischemic Cardiomyopathy 37 % Congenital Anomalies 2.9 % Valvular Cardiomyopathy 2.8 % Re-transplantation 2.5 % Other causes 0.9 % Data from Lund et al. [4] Table…
Anesthetic Management of Donor Organ Retrieval in a Multiorgan Donor
Fig. 6.1 Critical pathway for the organ donor (Reprinted with permission from the United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2013) Treatment of hemodynamic instability in brain-dead multiorgan donors can…
Postoperative Critical Care of Lung Transplant Patients
Fig. 10.1 (a) Cardiac tamponade in lung transplant recipient with oversized allografts (during expiratory phase of the ventilatory cycle). Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) image obtained at mid-esophageal level depicting the right…
Preoperative Evaluation and Preparation for Lung Transplantation
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease BODE index of at least 7 or at least 1 of the following: • FEV1 < 20 % predicted and either DLCO < 20 % predicted or…
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
, Corinna Eleni Psomadakis2 and Bobby Buka3 (1) Department of Family Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Attending Mount Sinai Doctors/Beth Israel Medical Group-Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2) School of Medicine Imperial College…
Drug Reaction
, Corinna Eleni Psomadakis2 and Bobby Buka3 (1) Department of Family Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Attending Mount Sinai Doctors/Beth Israel Medical Group-Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2) School of Medicine Imperial College…
