Pulmonary Considerations in Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine
By Vivek Ahya, MD and Robert Kotloff, MD
240 pages
Copyright 2006
Description
This is a topic that is relevant to a wide audience of pulmonologists since transplant evaluation and care in increasingly shifting to the large community hospitals as well as the academic medical centers. While the narrow topic of lung transplantation has been previously covered, the broader topic discussed in this issue has not been covered by the Clinics in well over ten years.
Table of Contents
1. Non-infectious Pulmonary Complications Following Transplantation Other Than Lung (Kotloff) 2. Overview of Solid Organ Transplantation (Bloom, Goldberg, Kotloff and Faust) 3. Overview of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (Antin and Cutler) 4. Radiographic Assessment of the Transplant Recipient (Miller) 5. Acute Lung Injury Following Hematopoeitic Stem Cell Transplantation (Peters) 6. Chronic Lung Disease Following Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (Afessa) 7. Hepatopulmonary Syndrome and Portopulmonary Hypertension: Implications for Liver Transplantation (Krowka) 8. Non-infectious Pulmonary Complications Following Lung Transplantation (Kawut) 9. Pulmonary Allograft Rejection Following Lung Transplantation (Whelan and Hertz) 10. Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (Tsai and Loren) 11. Bacterial and Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infections in Transplant Recipients (Blumberg and Gasink) 12. Aspergillus Pulmonary Infections in Transplant Recipients (White) 13. Other Fungal Pneumonias in Transplant Recipients (Alexander) 14. Cytomegalovirus Infections in Transplant Recipients (Fishman) 15. Non-CMV Viral Pneumonias in Transplant Recipients (Blumberg and Barton)