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Essentials in Lung Transplantation

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Editors:
  1. Allan R. Glanville

    1. The Lung Transplant Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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  • Provides a didactic overview of each aspect of lung transplantation

  • Discusses significant advances in donor matching and transplant surgery

  • Written by a team of leading experts in the field of thoracic medicine

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Who and When to Transplant: What Has Changed?

    • Isuru N. S. Seneviratne, Peter Hopkins
    Pages 1-17

  3. Surgical Approaches: Tricks of the Trade

    • Kumud Dhital, Yujiro Kawanishi
    Pages 19-37

  4. Donation After Brain Death Versus Donation After Circulatory Death Donors in Lung Transplantation: Are They Different?

    • Gregory I. Snell, Bronwyn J. Levvey
    Pages 39-46

  5. ECMO and EVLP

    • Andreas Fiene
    Pages 47-54

  6. Immunosuppression: Have We Learnt Anything

    • Miranda Paraskeva
    Pages 55-66

  7. Cellular Rejection: Is it Still Relevant?

    • Adrian Havryk
    Pages 67-77

  8. Antibody Mediated Rejection: Are We There Yet?

    • Glen P. Westall, Lucy C. Sullivan
    Pages 79-86

  9. The Human Respiratory Microbiome: The End of the Beginning?

    • Alicia B. Mitchell, Allan R. Glanville
    Pages 87-97

  10. Community Acquired Respiratory Viruses

    • Marshall Plit
    Pages 99-108

  11. Bronchoscopy Post Lung Transplantation

    • Mark Benzimra
    Pages 109-117

  12. Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Phenotypes and the Future

    • Daniel C. Chambers
    Pages 119-129

  13. Lung Transplantation for Interstitial Lung Disease

    • Monique Anne Malouf
    Pages 131-149

  14. Lung Transplantation for Obstructive Lung Diseases

    • Amy L. Rigby
    Pages 151-161

  15. Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    • Helen Whitford
    Pages 163-172

  16. Common Infections Following Lung Transplantation

    • Deborah J. Marriott, C. Orla Morrissey
    Pages 173-219

  17. How to Measure Success

    • Rebecca Pearson
    Pages 221-230

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 231-239
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About this book

This book presents a clear and concise summary of the clinical tenets of lung transplantation with an update on recent developments in the field. It examines the operational principles which underpin successful lung transplantation and shows how an evidenced based approach combined with wisdom borne of experience leads to better outcomes in day-to-day management. Focused on simplicity and elegance of style with ample visual images, this book provides a unique overview of trends and strategies for the best outcomes in lung transplantation. Approachable and easily digested, this book will be a go-to resource for professionals seeking a succinct and well-illustrated guide to this growing area of surgical transplantation. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Lung Transplant Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Allan R. Glanville

About the editor

Professor Allan R Glanville, MBBS, MD, FRACP completed his training at Sydney University, Brompton Hospital, London, and Stanford University, California, USA. Prof Glanville is Medical Director of Lung Transplantation and Head of Service at the Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Vincent Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He is conjoint Professor of Medicine at UNSW and an editorial board member of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the American Journal of Transplantation, the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 

Currently President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Prof Glanville is Past President of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and Programme Chair for the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting in Montreal, Canada; Past Chair of the European and Australian Investigators in Lung Transplantation; and has authored over 200 publications including investigator driven global trials of immunosuppression and of novel therapies for RSV using small mRNAi. He is senior author of the 2015 International Consensus Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplantation Candidates, the joint ATS/ERS/JHLT BOS Guidelines, and the 2016 Pulmonary Antibody Mediated Rejection Consensus Report of the ISHLT. In Australia he is a foundation director of Outcomes Australia, a foundation member of ShareLife Australia, and a scientific advisor to Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Australia Research Alliance which complements work with international LAM groups and as a member of the Rare Lung Diseases Consortium. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essentials in Lung Transplantation

  • Editors: Allan R. Glanville

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90933-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90932-5Published: 20 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08134-8Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90933-2Published: 30 August 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Thoracic Surgery, Pneumology/Respiratory System

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