Cardiac Transplantation: The Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital Manual

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provides an excellent resource for practitioners involved in the care of transplant patients; covers all aspects of heart-transplantation; addresses every significant facet of the field, including donor selection and management, pre-transplant evaluation, operative techniques, the immunology of transplantation, and both long and short-term postoperative management; includes special chapters on UNOS bylaws and nursing coordination, pediatric heart transplantation, surgical alternatives to transplantation, and the use of temporary ventricular assist devices as a bridge-to-transplantation; offers the reader a real time collection of topics as they are managed by experts in the field from one of the world’s leading centers in heart transplantation (The New York Presbyterian Hospital) and leading academic centers in transplantation research.