Monographs

The ISHLT Monograph Series is an hardcover publication of the Society that provides in-depth coverage of the current state of knowledge of a specific topic relevant to heart and lung transplantation and/or end stage heart and lung disease.

Hardback copies of ISHLT Monographs can be purchased directly from ISHLT, or certain volumes can also be purchased as eBooks from your favorite online retailers.

Published 1 April 2008

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Charles E. Canter, MD
James K. Kirklin, MD

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  Heart Diseases Leading to Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Cardiomyopathies and Congenital Heart Diseases
Daphne T. Hsu, Jacqueline M. Lamour, and Charles E. Canter

Chapter 2:  Recipient Evaluation: Medical and Psychosocial Morbidities
Robert J. Gajarski and F. Bennett Pearce

Chapter 3:  Management of Patients Awaiting Transplantation: Medical, Immunologic, and Mechanical Support
Brian W. Duncan, Michael Burch, and James K. Kirklin

Chapter 4:  Special Immunologic Issues in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Lori J. West, Robert E. Shaddy, and Ian C. Balfour

Chapter 5:  The Pediatric Heart Donor: Evaluation of Age, Size, Cause of death, Donor Heart Function, and Vitality
Daniel Bernstein and Francesco Parisi

Chapter 6:  Surgical Techniques in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Pedro J. del Nido, Leonard L. Bailey, and James K. Kirklin

Chapter 7:  Postoperative Management: Early Graft Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Initial Immunosuppression Strategies
Charles B. Huddleston, Juan C. Alejos, and Josef M. Thul

Chapter 8:  Survival After Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Robert W. Morrow and James K. Kirklin

Chapter 9:  Acute Rejection: Natural History, Risk Factors, Surveillance, and Treatment
Debra A. Dodd, Javier Cabo, and Anne I. Dipchand

Chapter 10:  Infection Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Kenneth O. Schowengerdt, Jr. and Estela Azeka

Chapter 11:  Allograft Vasculopathy: Detection, Risk Factors, Natural History, and Treatment
Elfriede Pahl, Alida L.P. Caforio, and Michael Kuhn

Chapter 12:  Posttransplant Malignancy: Risk Factors, Incidence, Diagnosis, Treatment
Linda J. Addonizio and Gerald J. Boyle

Chapter 13:  Child Development Posttransplant: Growth, Intellectual/Developmental Functioning, and Psychosocial Functioning
Rosemary Radley-Smith, Jo Wray, Richard Chinnock, and Karen Uzark

Chapter 14:  Long-term Medical Morbidities: Hypertension, Lipids, Renal Dysfunction, Arrhythmias
Tajinder P. Singh

Chapter 15:  Retransplantation
William T. Mahle and Clifford Chin