Description
Book SynopsisProvides transplant professionals with a step-wise approach to abdominal organ retrieval and bench surgery, illustrating complex anatomical situations and providing practice points and decision algorithms. A go-to reference for transplant surgeons, trainees and fellows, as well as for other professionals involved in abdominal organ transplantation.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vi
Foreword vii
Peter J. Morris
Preface viii
About the Companion Website ix
1 Organ Retrieval Logistics 1
Murat Akyol and Victor L. Tswen Wen
2 Strategies in Preservation of Abdominal Organs 9
Rutger J. Ploeg
3 Management of the Brainstem Dead Organ Donor 24
Neil Young and Dermot McKeown
4 Multiorgan Retrieval 32
Gabriel C. Oniscu
5 Kidney Retrieval and Bench Surgery 58
John L. Forsythe
6 Liver Retrieval and Bench Surgery 73
Gabriel C. Oniscu
7 Deceased Cardiac Donor Liver Retrieval 91
Paolo Muiesan
8 In situ Liver Splitting 101
Koji Hashimoto and John Fung
9 Ex situ Liver Splitting 116
Dieter C. Bröering
10 Pancreas Retrieval and Bench Surgery 130
Thomas Vogel and Peter J. Friend
11 Intestinal Retrieval and Bench Surgery 140
Douglas G. Farmer Prawat Kositamongkol and Hasan Yersiz
12 Paediatric Age-Specific Aspects of Retrieval and Bench Surgery 155
Chiara Grimaldi and Jean de Ville de Goyet
Index 177
