Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplant Recipients, Vol. 21

Author: Eelco F. Wijdicks
Published: February 1999
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0750670665
Paperback Book
Number of Pages: 248

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: This practical text focuses on the diagnosis and management of the subsequent neurologic problems encountered by organ transplant recipients. Due to advances in immunosuppressive drugs, transplant patients are surviving longer, resulting in the occurrence of a number of neurologic problems. Neurologists may feel overwhelmed when called upon to evaluate a postoperative neurologic complication, due in part to the vastness of medical and surgical history. In addition, the neurologic exam is confounded by varying drugs and the large number of catheters that limit access to the patient. This book aims to make neurologists feel more confident in the treatment of transplant patients by systematically reviewing the major neurologic and psychiatric complications that can occur. With the number of transplant surgeries increasing each year, Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplant Recipients is an essential text for all neurologists who are involved or going to be involved in the care of transplant recipients.

Table of Contents:

Contributing Authors
Series Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. I Transplantation: Surgical Procedures and Risks
1 Heart, Lung, and Combined Heart-Lung Transplantation 3
2 Liver Transplantation 19
3 Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation 33
4 Bone Marrow (Hematopoietic Cell) Transplantation 45
Pt. II Neurologic Disorders
5 Neurologic Complications in Transplant Recipients: A Bird's-Eye View 57
6 Failure to Awaken and Acute Disturbances of Consciousness 63
7 Psychiatric Complications of Organ Transplantation 91
8 Seizures 107
9 Neurologic Manifestations of Immunosuppressive Agents 127
10 Central Nervous System Infections 141
11 Neuromuscular Disorders 169
12 Cerebrovascular Disorders 193
13 De Novo Malignant Lesions of the Central Nervous System 217
14 Demyelinating Disorders 229
Index 239

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