Journey Of A Liver Transplant Recipient

Author : Christine Jowett
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781460267103

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Journey of a Liver Transplant Recipient by Christine Jowett Pdf

It is a reality that someone in Canada dies every three days waiting for an organ transplant; for some patients, they are lying in their hospital beds, waiting to be given a second chance at life. Some are fortunate to receive that organ or gift of life, yet for many, they don't survive because the organ they require is either not available or doesn't get there in time. Christine Jowett was only thirteen years old when she became jaundiced, fatigued, and endured bouts of right abdominal pain. Having lived with autoimmune hepatitis for twenty-six years, Christine's disease finally took its toll on her and she ended up in St. Mary's Hospital, where she works as a cardiology nurse. In order to save her life, she was then sent to Toronto General Hospital to wait for a liver transplant, yet, her situation continued to deteriorate as her kidneys were shutting down. Now at forty-one years old, a mother and a wife, it still remains a mystery as to why Christine developed chronic autoimmune hepatitis, a disease that for so long through her life she was able to manage with few medications. Life Goes On is a moving story of her life, which tells of her sickness, facing up to the possibility of losing her family, and the struggle to regain the normality of life after her operation. After the tragic death of an anonymous hero, Christine is given the ultimate gift of life, a healthy organ, on one very special day.

Author : Fatima Baig
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781543434453

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Fatima’S Journey by Fatima Baig Pdf

This book details Fatimas journey as a two-time liver transplant recipient. The book is also about how her health struggles affected her personally and how the youth who have grown up with chronic illnesses can have normal yet special lives and how their families cope and become their strength. She also writes about how families from very different ethnic backgrounds come close together and form a strong bond in the pain of their children and their common challenges. She discussed the medical mistakes, which become life-changing for so many, and how there should be more acknowledgment of them rather than putting a lid on them. Finally, Fatima talks about how she came to spread awareness about organ donation; shares her story through social media, media, and public speaking; and how she came to be a part of a community of transplant patients, donor families, and those with chronic illness who united together through diversity and helped each other during their struggles. This book details how her life changed after her second liver transplant and the medical mistakes that Fatima endured.

Author : David Goldberg
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323791939

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Liver Transplantation, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease, E-Book by David Goldberg Pdf

With collaboration from Consulting Editor, Dr. Norman Gitlin Dr. Goldberg has assembled a state-of-the-art issue devoted to management of liver transplant patients. Expert authors have contributed current clinical reviews that covers the breadth of the pre- and post-surgical journey. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Obesity management of liver transplant waitlist candidates and recipients; Expanding the limits of liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Is there a limit; Frailty and sarcopenia in patients pre- and post-liver transplant; Achieving tolerance in liver transplantation: Where are we now and what does the future hold; Expanding role of donation after cardiac death donors; Optimizing selection of patients for simultaneous liver-kidney transplant; Keeping the patient with end-stage liver disease alive while awaiting transplant: Management of complications of portal hypertension; Expanding donor selection and recipient indications for living donor liver transplantation; The changing liver transplant recipient: From hepatitis C to NASH and alcohol; Cardiovascular risk stratification in liver transplant candidates; The role of machine perfusion in liver transplantation: Warm, Cold, or does it not matter; Paradigm shift in utilization of livers from hepatitis C-viremic donors into HCV-negative patients; Transplantation of elderly patients: Is there an upper age cutoff; Transplantation for acute alcoholic hepatitis: Controversies and early successes. Hepatologists will come away with the information they need to improve outcomes in liver transplant patients.

Author : James Neuberger,James Ferguson,Philip N. Newsome,Michael R. Lucey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119634027

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Liver Transplantation by James Neuberger,James Ferguson,Philip N. Newsome,Michael R. Lucey Pdf

Explore this practical and step-by-step guide to managing liver transplant patients from leading international clinicians in Hepatology The newly revised Second Edition of Liver Transplantation: Clinical Assessment and Management delivers expert clinical guidance on best practices in managing the care of liver transplant patients. Authors are all experts in their field and cover a world-wide perspective. Organized in an accessible, stepwise fashion and packed with text features such as key points, the book covers all critical areas of each stage of the liver transplant journey, from assessment, to management on the list, to long term care. Readers will learn when to refer a patient for liver transplantation, how to assess a potential liver transplant recipient, learn the principles of the procedure and the long term management of the transplant recipient. Liver Transplantation provides the entire hepatology and surgical team the information required for a sound understanding of the entire procedure, from pre- to post-operative care and management. Clinically oriented and management-focused, the book is far more accessible than the liver transplant sections in traditional hepatology textbooks. Readers will also enjoy: A thorough discussion of when to refer a patient for liver transplantation, including general considerations and the use and abuse of prognostic models An exploration of the selection, assessment, and management of patients on the transplant list, including how to manage a patient with chronic liver disease while on the waiting list A treatment of liver transplantation for acute liver failure (ALF), including assessment and management of ALF patients on the transplant waiting list A discussion of care of the liver transplant recipient after the procedure in the short and long term Perfect for gastroenterologists, hepatologists, and surgeons and other health care professionals managing patients with liver disease who are awaiting, undergoing and following liver transplantation, Liver Transplantation: Clinical Assessment and Management will also earn a place in the libraries of medical students, residents, internal medicine physicians, and GI/Hepatology trainees and all health care professionals providing clinical care to people with liver disease, before, during and after transplantation.

Author : Radhika Sachdev
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9388369513

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Second Go by Radhika Sachdev Pdf

Penned in real time, from the hospital bed while battling for life, on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone' s 4x2 inch keypad, the only device allowed to the patient in her super-sanitized recuperating room, this book follows a hybrid format of medico-psycho thriller, interspersed with SMS chats, transcripts of medical records, and other workings of an addled mind overcome by sickness, yet determined to pull through. It is a first-hand account of a liver transplant recipient' s journey in India, chronicled from the patient' s perspective in vivid detail as a series of dramatic events unfold in her life, completing the cycle from sickness to health, despair to hope. It also tells the story of a single mom and breadwinner of the family, her strong bonding with her adoptive daughter, and her family and friends' support. The author hopes that this book will give courage and direction to other patients whose lives are hanging by a thread, patients awaiting a life-saving cadaveric organ donation.

Author : Lezlee Peterzell-Bellanich
Publisher : Giro Di Mondo Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1737138824

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Saved by a Stranger by Lezlee Peterzell-Bellanich Pdf

A book inspiring hope, perseverance, and triumph for those needing a new organ.

Author : Kathy Hamilton
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9798878030403

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Our Liver Transplant Journey by Kathy Hamilton Pdf

Discover the life-changing results of "Our Liver Transplant Journey" - a gripping and enlightening memoir chronicling one couple's extraordinary experience with liver disease and the transformative journey through a liver transplant. Gain invaluable insights, practical tips, and heartfelt advice for navigating the emotional rollercoaster of a liver transplant, and find hope and inspiration through the power of love and support. Benefits: - Gain invaluable insights and practical tips for navigating a liver transplant journey - Find hope and inspiration through the power of love and support Emotional bullet points: - Overcome the emotional turmoil and resilience of a liver disease diagnosis - Experience the transformative moment of receiving a life-saving transplant - Discover the crucial role of family, friends, and medical professionals in the transplant process - Find practical guidance for navigating the healthcare system, transplant preparation, and post-transplant care - Learn the importance of resilience and enduring bonds of love and friendship What's included: - Heartfelt and candid personal account of a husband's battle with liver disease - Emotional rollercoaster of receiving a liver disease diagnosis and waiting for a donor - Practical tips and advice for navigating the transplant process - Insights into the complexities of the healthcare system and post-transplant care - Touching memoir emphasizing the power of love and support Don't miss out on this touching and practical guide - buy "Our Liver Transplant Journey" now before the price changes.

Author : Ava Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692512373

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The Transplant Journey by Ava Kaufman Pdf

The process of transplant is about restoring life. I mean how truly amazing is modern medicine and science! They can now take organs from a person who is brain dead (yes, a person must be brain dead to be able to donate their organs; heart still beating, but no brain activity) and medication taken twice or more daily can keep that organ functioning and give new life to a person who, half a century ago, would be dead. And not just new life, but for many a life they had never dreamed of living.

Author : Christopher J. Wong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030506292

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Primary Care of the Solid Organ Transplant Recipient by Christopher J. Wong Pdf

Solid organ transplantation offers a new chance at life to those suffering from failing organs. With these successes, however, comes the everyday management that is required to maintain health. The field of solid organ transplantation has become a part of medicine that generalists should be familiar with, as recipients are living longer and frequently returning to primary care for management. While specialists will still need to be involved with the care of solid organ transplant recipients on a life-long basis, many conditions will still need initial and often ongoing care by generalists, including infections, metabolic conditions, psychiatric illnesses, and malignancy. This book focuses on the care of adult solid organ transplant recipients, and is targeted at the level of the primary care provider. It begins with an introduction and overviews of solid organ transplantation and anti-rejection medications. It then delves into organ-specific chapters that provide the primary care provider with an overview of how to take care of patients with the most commonly-transplanted solid organs: kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, heart, and lung. The final section focuses on specific complications that arise from transplantation including cancer, metabolic conditions, infections, and common presenting syndromes. Preventative health is also discussed, and the book concludes with a chapter on palliative care. Primary Care of the Solid Organ Transplant Recipient is a unique text that provides the reader with organ and complication-specific sections that can be independently read as they relate to the individual physicians and their patients. Written by experts in the field, this text is a valuable resource for primary care providers, medical students, residents and anyone involved in the care of solid organ transplant recipients.

Author : Kyle Garlett
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613740088

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Heart of Iron by Kyle Garlett Pdf

Throughout his life, Kyle Garlett hated nothing more than losing, and he knew early on that four diagnoses of cancer could not match his spirit of competition. His appetite for victory and his love of life pushed him over his health hurdles—including a bone marrow transplant, hip replacement, and heart transplant—and into the greatest challenge of his life: the Ironman World Championship. Kyle tells his amazing life story with clear-headed optimism and a winning sense of humor, beginning with his first diagnosis of lymphoma as a teenager and continuing through years of chemotherapy that destroyed his joints and weakened his heart. Not just about his health crisis but also about forging a remarkable life around cancer and his career as a sportwriter, the amazing friends and family who supported him, and finding love. After five and half years on the organ transplant waiting list then being gifted with a new heart, Kyle embarks on a challenge of his own making: to compete in the Ironman Triathlon, in which he competed not once but twice. His miraculous recovery and athleticism are recounted, along with the story of how he became an Olympic torch bearer, a devoted Lymphoma & Leukemia Society spokesperson, a motivational speaker, and an author. Heart of Iron is an invaluable companion for those affected by cancer and a breathtaking memoir about one man's unstoppable spirit and success against all odds.

Author : Martin Erlichman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Kidneys
ISBN : MINN:31951D02332551P

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Combined Liver-kidney Transplantation by Martin Erlichman Pdf

Author : Chris Klug
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786714220

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To the Edge and Back by Chris Klug Pdf

The author chronicles the remarkable story of the Olympic snowboarder who fought back from a deadly diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis, waiting four years for a liver transplant while campaigning to get his sport accepted into the Winter Olympic Games. Original.

Author : Fredric D. Gordon
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0763740489

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100 Questions and Answers about Liver Transplantation by Fredric D. Gordon Pdf

This accessible guide provides patients and their families with clear and concise answers to 100 of the most commonly asked questions about liver transplantation.

Author : Quyen D Chu
Publisher : Beaux Books Publishing, LLC
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780997772180

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Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Transplant Surgery by Quyen D Chu Pdf

This unique textbook provides a concise and practical approach to clinical dilemmas involving the liver, pancreas, and biliary tree. Six major sections encompass (1) Hepatic, (2) Biliary, (3) Pancreas, (4) Transplantation, (5) Trauma, and (6) Innovative Technology. Each topic is written by recognized experts from an "e;experiential"e; viewpoint combined with evidence-based medicine. The book contains over 170 chapters and over 350 contributors. It is relevant to Surgical Oncologists, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgeons, Transplant Surgeons, Traumatologists, HPB Interventionalists, General Surgeons, and trainees and students. The title of each chapter is in a form of a clinical scenario and each chapter begins with a Case Scenario and ends with Salient Points. Special debates are included in each section. There are numerous compelling images, detailed illustrations, comprehensive tables, thorough algorithms, and other adjunctive tools that enhance learning. The authors emanate from different corners of the world. The book is a valuable resource for faculty, students, surgical trainees, fellows, and all health care providers in the HPB/Trauma/Transplant/Oncology fields.

Author : Henkie P. Tan,Amadeo Marcos,Ron Shapiro
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781420019650

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Living Donor Transplantation by Henkie P. Tan,Amadeo Marcos,Ron Shapiro Pdf

Edited by leaders at one of the acclaimed transplant institutions in the United States, this reference covers all aspects of living donor solid organ and cellular transplantation in current clinical practice, including the kidney, liver, pancreas, lung, small bowel, islet, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Detailed, engaging, and organ-