Main description:

Provides 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.

Contents:

List 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. Broering 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