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Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including COVID-19 and lung transplantation; the lung transplant candidate: indications, timing and selection criteria; bilateral lung transplantation vs. single lung transplant: complications, quality of life, and survival; critical care management of the lung transplant recipient; and more.�
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on lung transplantation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.�
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.�
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Table of Contents
History of Lung TransplantationThe Lung Transplant Candidate, Indications, Timing, and Selection Criteria
Listing Dilemmas: Age, Frailty, Weight, Preexisting Cancers, and Systemic Diseases
Lung Transplant Procedure of Choice: Bilateral Transplantation Versus Single Transplantation Complications, Quality of Life, and Survival
The Past, Present, and Near Future of Lung Allocation in the United States
Organ Donation, the Non-Perfect Lung Donor, and Variability in Conversion to Transplant
Expanding the Lung Donor Pool: Donation After Circulatory Death, Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion and Hepatitis C Donors
The Highly Sensitized Recipient: Pretransplant and Posttransplant Considerations
Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Diagnosis and Treatment
Critical Care Management of the Lung Transplant Recipient
Conventional and Novel Approaches to Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation
Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Obstructive and Restrictive Allograft Dysfunction
Opportunistic Infections Post-Lung Transplantation: Viral, Fungal, and Mycobacterial
Common Noninfectious Complications Following Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplantation for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patients and Coronavirus Disease>2019 in Lung Transplant Recipients
Future of Lung Transplantation: Xenotransplantation and Bioengineering Lungs