This extensively revised textbook is a concise reference for those involved in the management of heart transplant. While this compilation of best practices cannot address the complexity of the individual patients we care for on a daily basis, it will serve to help us ask the right questions, access the best evidence and ultimately make the best decisions for the patients involved.
Clinical Guide to Heart Transplantation provides a current review of the field of heart transplantation and how it has evolved into an established therapy for the treatment of end-stage heart failure. With the advent of improved surgical techniques, the development of immunosuppressive drugs and the utilization of more sophisticated monitoring strategies and treatments for graft rejection, heart transplantation now offers patients an avenue to both improved survival and quality of life.
With over 4000 heart transplants performed per year globally and with 1-year survival approaching 90%, this practical title is a vital reference to those involved in the this most complex of procedures to establish best practice. It is therefore essential reading for all practitioners in this field who are charged with making critical decisions in the management of patients, donor organs and the transplant process itself to achieve the greatest benefit in the utilization of this often scarce resource.
Advanced heart failure treatments.- Pre-heart transplant
considerations.- Post heart transplant patient management.- Long-term
management of heart transplant recipients.- Special considerations.- The
future of heart transplantation.- Ethical considerations in heart
transplantation.
Jon Kobashigawa, MD, is the DSL/Thomas D. Gordon professor of Medicine, director of the Advanced Heart Disease Section, director of the Heart Transplant Program and the associate director of the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute as well as the associate director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
He received his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and earned his medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a past president of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, past chair of the American College of Cardiology Committee on Heart Failure and Transplantation, and past member of the United Network of Organ Sharing National Thoracic Committee and President of the American Society of Transplantation.
Dr. Kobashigawa is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in heart transplantation. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles, chapters and monographs in the field of heart failure and transplantation and has chairedseveral multicenter clinical studies. Dr. Kobashigawa has organized and chaired numerous International Consensus Conferences to discuss pertinent questions regarding heart failure and heart transplant. He lectures at universities around the world and has mentored many young physicians who have ascended to important academic positions throughout the country.
