S olid organ transplantation in infants and children: Through the looking glass
Key differences in recipient characteristics in infants and children
The Pediatrician and the care of the infant or child before and after solid organ transplantation
Solid organ transplantation in the pediatric patient: the regulatory environment and it’s requirements
Evaluation and listing for transplant of the infant or child with end organ failure
Maintenance of the infant or child with end organ failure
Growth and development with end organ failure
Anesthetic considerations for the child undergoing transplantation
Intensive care of the child after solid organ transplantation
Pathology of transplanted solid organs
Immunologic responses of the child to short and long term immunosuppression
Standard Immunosuppression
Standard maintenance protocols: Medication, follow up visits, immunizations, sick child calls etc
Immunosuppressive medication withdrawal
Health related quality of life
Late complications
Progressive allograft injury and chronic rejection
Nonadherence
Retransplantation: challenges and strategies
Transition to the adult care paradigm
Growing up after a transplant: the child’s perspective
Raising a child after a transplant: the parent’s perspective
Continuous improvement in solid organ transplantation in infants and children
The causes of kidney failure and timing of transplant
The urine reservoir: evaluation and transplant strategies
Technical aspects of kidney transplantation in the child
Living donor kidney transplantation
Salvage procedures for technical complications after kidney transplantation
The causes of liver failure and timing of transplant
Acute hepatic failure: Diagnosis, support and transplantation
Technical aspects of liver transplantation
Live donor liver transplantation: pediatric considerations
Salvage procedures for technical complications after liver transplantation
Causes of intestinal
Technical aspects of intestinal transplantation
Post transplant feeding regimens and monitoring paradigms
Salvage procedures for technical complications after intestinal transplantation
Living donor intestinal transplantation
Causes of cardiac failure and timing of transplant
Cardiac support devices and their use in infants and children in the overall strategy of cardiac transplantation
Technical aspects of cardiac transplantation
Salvage procedures for technical complications of cardiac transplantation
Causes of lung failure in infants and children and timing of transplant
Single or double lung transplantation: How to decide
Combined heart-lung transplantation
Technical aspects of lung and heart lung transplantation
Salvage operations for technical complications after lung or heart-lung transplantation.