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Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life
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Product Description
Over 64,000 people in the US are living in limbo, awaiting an organ transplant.
The good news about organ transplants is that they are becoming fairly routine surgical procedures. The even better news is that they do work miracles. People who have been in ill health for years often describe a feeling of being reborn after a transplant.
However, those families who have been told that a loved one needs a transplant to live are thrust into a strange land. Patients and families worry that no organ will be available to them. They may fear the surgery or what living with someone else's organ will feel like. They may have only a foggy idea of what staying with an immunosuppressive therapy regime after the operation will entail.
Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life describes:
- Deciding whether to have a transplant and choosing a transplant team
- The importance of the screening interview
- What factors go into determining a match, and what to do while waiting
- Detailed information on heart and lung, liver, kidney and pancreas, and other transplants
- Anti-rejection drugs and living with a transplant
- Emotional responses and support
- Specific situations such as living donors, transplants in children, meeting the donor family, etc.
Robert Finn, medical and scientific journalist and author, has interviewed dozens of patients, family members, medical caregivers, and transplant activists to present your family with the latest facts about transplantation--as well as the stories behind those facts.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1913459 in Books
- Published on: 2000-02-01
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .68" h x 6.04" w x 9.00" l, 1.01 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 326 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
More than 60,000 Americans each year face the prospect of needing a new heart, kidney, liver, lung, or pancreas. Most wait for months, even years, to receive a donated organ. For those with illnesses for which transplantation may be the last hope, journalist Finn has written a comprehensive guide to a complex, sometimes frightening world. He explains how selection decisions are made and how organ procurement systems work; dispels commonly held myths about donation; provides a description of the immune system and the drugs used to control rejection; illustrates through individual cases what the actual process of waiting for and finally receiving an organ is like; discusses the different surgical procedures required for each type of organ transplant; examines the postsurgical physical and emotional roller coaster typically experienced by patients and their supporters; and offers practical suggestions for handling the financial costs not only of the transplant surgery itself but lifelong medical expenditures. Liberally sprinkled with comments from actual recipients, their families, and members of the transplant teams, this book is an excellent resource. Appendixes include Internet discussion groups, mailing lists and other web sites, pharmaceutical and financial assistance programs, and contact information for scores of transplant-related organizations. Highly recommended.
-Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Info
Consumer text discusses making a decision to have a transplant, choosing a transplant team, what to do while waiting, learning about the surgery, taking anti-rejection drugs, and more. Softcover.
From the Publisher
Over 64,000 people in the US are awaiting an organ transplant. Although transplant surgeries are now fairly routine and can give their recipients the gift of new life, the road to getting a transplant can be long and harrowing. Living with immunosuppressive drugs and strong emotional responses can also be more challenging than families imagine. Medical journalist Robert Finn answers the concerns of these families, with the latest facts about transplantation--as well as the stories behind them.
