Basic Consumer Health Information about Organ and Tissue Transplantation, Including Physical and Financial Preparations, Procedures and Issues Relating to Specific Solid Organ and Tissue Transplants, Rehabilitation, Pediatric Transplant Information, the Future of Transplantation, and Organ and Tissue Donation Along with a Glossary and Listings of Additional Resources.

Provides information on issues related with organ transplants such as choosing a transplant team, learning about anti-rejection drugs, dealing with emotional responses, and finding support groups.

Provides a comprehensive discussion of free flap surgery. The author presents an in-depth, technique-oriented review of each flap, including indications, dimensions, vascular and neural anatomy, and dissection. Covers cutaneous, musculocutaneous, septocutaneous, fasciocutaneous and fascial flaps. Each chapter includes a review by selected experts for a unique perspective and alternate surgical techniques.

Her new heart saved her life...now she's losing her mind. When Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant she feels...different. The organ beating in her chest isn't in tune with the rest of her body. Like it still belongs to someone else. Someone with terrible memories...memories that are slowly replacing her own. A dark room, a man in the shadows, the sharp taste of adrenaline — these are her donor's final memories. Pieces of a deadly puzzle. And if Georgie doesn't want them to be the last thing she remembers, she has to find out the truth behind her donor's death...before she loses herself completely. Fans of Lisa McMann and April Henry will devour this edgy, gripping thriller with a twist readers won't see coming!

Living Organ Donor Transplantation, Second Edition puts the entire discipline in perspective while guiding readers step-by-step through the most common organ transplant surgeries. Organized into four cohesive parts and featuring numerous surgical illustrations, this sourcebook delivers an incisive look at every key consideration for general surgeons who perform transplantations, from patient selection to recipient workup and outcomes, and emphasizes the most humanitarian approaches. Sections provide content on living donor uterus transplantation, new operative techniques, including the use of robotic and minimally invasive transplant procedures, new immunosuppressive regimens, new protocols of tolerance induction including stem cell therapy and transplantation, and much more.Chapter authors are international leaders in their fields and represent institutions from four continents (Americas: USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada; Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK; Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan; Australia). - Provides an A-Z, operation-oriented guide to the field of living donor organ transplantation - Examines a wide spectrum of solid organ transplantation procedures (liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine), with accompanying chapters on the history of the procedure, the donor, the recipient, and cost analysis - Covers techniques that explain adequate pretransplant workup and posttransplant care - Covers cultural differences, ethical and legal issues, social issues, current financial incentives, and the illegal organ trade

This work draws together a wide range of material, including extracts from statutes, cases and academic commentaries, and presents this in a lucid and logical form. It is divided into two parts: the first looks at the general principles that permeate medical law and features chapters on illness and the ethics of care, health care in England and Wales, consent to treatment, confidentiality, and medical malpractice. The second part considers the additional issues which arise in relation to specific areas of medical treatment, including infertility treatment and surrogacy, pregnancy and abortion, treating the incompetent, the mentally ill, medical research, organ transplants and euthanasia.