Artificial organs / Nadey Hakim (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hakim, Nadey S., 1958-

Series:

New techniques in surgery

New techniques in surgery series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial organs.

Artificial Organs.

Medical Subjects:

Artificial Organs.

Physical Description:

x, 183 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

Artificial Organs covers everything from the support of multiorgan failure, and blood substitutes, to the management of short bowel syndrome, artificial sphincters, and circulatory support in heart failure. Other issues covered include pancreatic substitution in case of diabetes, the dialysis machine in kidney failure, the bionic ear in deafness, skin substitutes in cases of burns, and stem cells in organ replacement.

Written by experts from Europe and the US, both physicians and surgeons, each of the chapters compares the artificial organ to what is currently available from the transplant point-of-view, to highlight the current and modern available techniques for organ replacement.

The book is useful reading for surgeons, and those interested in modern surgical and medical technology.

Professor Nadey S Hakim (KCSJ, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCSI, FACS, FICS) Consultant Transplant & General Surgeon Surgical Director, Transplant Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.

Contents:

1 Management of Multiorgan Failure After Artificial Organ Implantation / Michael Devile, Parind Patel, Carlos MH Gomez 1

2 Artificial Circulatory Support / John Mulholland 21

3 The Artificial Kidney / Christopher Kirwan, Andrew Frankel 39

4 Liver Substitution / Sambit Sen, Roger Williams 57

5 Glucose Sensors and Insulin Pumps: Prospects for an Artificial Pancreas / Martin Press 77

6 From Basic Wound Healing to Modern Skin Engineering / L.C. Andersson, H.C. Nettelblad, G. Kratz 93

7 Artificial Sphincters / Austin Obichere, Ibnauf Suliman 107

8 Cochlear Implant / George Fayad, Behrad Elmiyeh 133

9 Stem Cells and Organ Replacement / Natasa Levicar, Ioannis Dimarakis, Catherine Flores, Evangelia I Prodromidi, Myrtle Y Gordon, Nagy A Habib 137

10 Composite Tissue Transplantation: A Stage Between Surgical Reconstruction and Cloning / Earl R. Owen, Nadey S. Hakim 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848822818

1848822812

OCLC:

295001003