Author:
Publisher: Douglas Vincent
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: International Transplant Nurses Society
Publisher: Nursesbooks.org
ISBN: 1558102663
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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This specialty standard focuses on protecting, promoting, and optimizing the health and abilities of both the recipents and the living transplant donors of transplanted across the life span. It is also an essential document for other specialists in transplant care, healthcare providers, researchers, and scholars, along with those involved in funding, legal, policy, and regulatory activities.

Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 012805154X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 2854

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Encyclopedia of Cardiovascular Research and Medicine, Four Volume Set offers researchers over 200 articles covering every aspect of cardiovascular research and medicine, including fully annotated figures, abundant color illustrations and links to supplementary datasets and references. With contributions from top experts in the field, this book is the most reputable and easily searchable resource of cardiovascular-focused basic and translational content for students, researchers, clinicians and teaching faculty across the biomedical and medical sciences. The panel of authors chosen from an international board of leading scholars renders the text trustworthy, contemporary and representative of the global scientific expertise in these domains. The book's thematic structuring of sections and in-depth breakdown of topics encourages user-friendly, easily searchable chapters. Cross-references to related articles and links to further reading and references will further guide readers to a full understanding of the topics under discussion. Readers will find an unparalleled, one-stop resource exploring all major aspects of cardiovascular research and medicine. Presents comprehensive coverage of every aspect of cardiovascular medicine and research Offers readers a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the concepts in cardiovascular research and medicine with applications across biomedical research Includes reputable, foundational content on genetics, cancer, immunology, cell biology and molecular biology Provides a multi-media enriched color-illustrated text with high quality images, graphs and tables.

Author: C. Hannaway
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1607503085
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century and to the number of historians, social scientists and health policy analysts now working on the subject. The book is comprised of essays by noted historians and social scientists that offer insights on a range of subjects that should be a significant stimulus for further historical investigation. It details the NIH’s practices, policies and politics on a variety of fronts, including the development of the intramural program, the National Institute of Mental Health and mental health policy, the politics and funding of heart transplantation and the initial focus of the National Cancer Institute. Comparisons can be made with the development of other American and British institutions involved in medical research, such as the Rockefeller Institute and the Medical Research Council. Discussions of the larger scientific and social context of United States’ federal support for research, the role of lay institutions in federal funding of virus research, the consequences of technology transfer and patenting, the effects of vaccine and drug development and the environment of research discoveries all offer new insights and suggest questions for further exploration.

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Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4947

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Author: Ornella Leone
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319463861
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This is the first book to focus entirely on the role of pathology in cardiac transplantation, linked to the clinical perspective through clinical–pathological correlation, multidisciplinary team working, and collaborative research. It provides a scientific framework with up-to-date pathological protocols and classification schemes and guides the reader through the chronological phases of the transplant process in a step-by-step approach. Topics include end-stage heart failure with pathologies encountered in the native heart, current issues surrounding donor selection, the multiple faces of rejection pathology correlated with clinical management and immunology, other post-transplant complications, details of pediatric and combined heart/other organ transplantation, and a useful practical appendix. Many high-quality images and illustrative cases are presented, along with learning points and ample references. Transplantation medicine today is continuously changing as collaborative research into novel diagnostic techniques and immunosuppressive therapies translates into improved recipient management and survival. This book is aimed at practicing transplant pathologists and specialist trainees. It will also appeal to general pathologists and to physicians and surgeons involved in cardiac transplantation who need to understand the role of pathology in the clinical management of transplant recipients.

Author: Shelley McKellar
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423553
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Fighting heart disease with machines and devices-- Multiple approaches to building artificial hearts : technological optimism and political support in the early years -- Dispute and disappointment : heart transplantation and total artificial heart implant cases in the 1960s -- Technology and risk : nuclear-powered artificial hearts and medical device regulation -- Media spotlight : the Utah total artificial heart -- Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular assist devices -- Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs -- Artificial hearts in the 21st century

Author: Susan E. Lederer
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195161505
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning, though, there was simply a problem: surgeons often encountered shortages of people willing and able to give their organs and tissues. To overcome this problem, they often brokered financial arrangements. Yet an ethic of gift exchange coexisted with the 'commodification of the body'. The same duality characterized the field of blood transfusion, which was essential to the development of modern surgery.This book will be the first to bring together the histories of blood transfusion and organ transplantation. It will show how these two fields redrew the lines between self and non-self, the living and the dead, and humans and animals. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, legal cases, films and the papers and correspondence of physicians and surgeons, Lederer will challenge the assumptions of some bioethicists and policymakers that popular fears about organ transplantation necessarily reflect timeless human concerns and preoccupations with the body. She will show how notions of the body- intact, in parts, living and dead- are shaped by the particular culture in which they are embedded.

Author: Jessica Zampieri
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984943828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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At the age of twenty-eight she got her life back. If only she knew, back then, that her world is about to turn upside down. On June 12th, 2011, at the age of twenty-eight, Jessica received a liver transplant at the University of Cincinnati Health Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Her donor, Dustin was just 18. She couldn't have known that she'd be confronted with the possibility of her death at such a young age, or that all the years she spent striving for physical perfection would end up undermining her wellness to such a devastating degree. But one of the most surprising aspects of this crisis was the unexpected feeling of relief that washed over her as it all unfolded. After a lifetime of trying to be self-sufficient, at the top of her game, as close to perfect as possible, Jessica finally had to admit that she couldn't control this situation on her own. She needed a liver transplant to survive, and thanks to Dustin, her donor, and his family, she received the greatest gift - the gift of life.

Author: Brenda Cortez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999360194
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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A collection of stories by individuals whom have given or received an organ, or donated the organs of a loved one.