Lung Transplantation, an Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine: Volume 44-1

In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Luis Angel and Stephanie M. Levine bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Lung Transplantation. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as difficult decisions to transplant patients who are older, frail, underweight and obese; organ donation and variability in conversion to lung transplantation; conventional and novel approaches to immunosuppression; acute rejection and chronic allograft dysfunction; and more.

Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including COVID-19 and lung transplantation; the lung transplant candidate: indications, timing and selection criteria; bilateral lung transplantation vs. single lung transplant: complications, quality of life, and survival; critical care management of the lung transplant recipient; and more.

Provides in-depth clinical reviews on lung transplantation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.

Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323960715
• ISBN13: 9780323960717
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 10.1"