Lung Transplantation

• Lung Transplantation E-Book (Dirk Van Raemdonck)
• Thoracic organs: current preservation technology and future prospects; part 1: lung (Dirk Van Raemdonck)
• Donor Lung Procurement and Preservation (Dirk Van Raemdonck)
• Lung Donor Selection and Management (Dirk Van Raemdonck)
• Immunosuppression in lung transplantation (Jenna L. Scheffert, Kashif Raza)
• Non-Heart-Beating Donors (Dirk E.M. Van Raemdonck, Filip R. Rega, , Arne P. Neyrinck, Nicole Jannis, Geert M. Verleden and Toni E. Lerut)
• Immunosuppression and Allograft Rejection Following Lung Transplantation: Evidence to Date (Gregory I. Snell, Glen P. Westall and Miranda A. Paraskeva)
• Ethics in cardiothoracic surgery (Gregory I. Snell, Glen P. Westall and Miranda A. Paraskeva)
•  A consensus document for the selection of lung transplant candidates: 2014 — An update from the Pulmonary Transplantation Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung TransplantationPreview the document 
  
•  Effect of the lung allocation score on lung transplantation in the United StatesPreview the document (Thomas M. Egan and Leah B. Edwards)
•  Lung Harvest/ techniques (Dirk Van Raemdonck and Ivan Bravio)
  
•  Ex-vivo lung perfusion (Dirk Van Raemdonck, Arne Neyrinck, Marcelo Cypel and Shaf Keshavjee)
  
•  Define the allocation strategy for lung transplantation at your center (Veatch RM and Ross LF.)
  
• Further Reading
  

International overview of allocation strategies in lung transplantation (Are Martin Holm)

• Principles and ethical dillemmas when defining an allocation strategy
• Allocation strategies for lung transplantation in the USA
• Allocation strategies for lung transplantation EuroTransplant Area
• Allocation strategies for lung transplantation in the rest of the world
• Define the allocation strategy for lung transplantation at your center & conclusions

Donor management and selection (Arne Neyrinck)

• Physiological effects of brain death
• Principles of donor management
• Hemodynamic stabilization
• Hormonal resuscitation
• Targets and protocols in donor management
• The future of donor management: preconditioning?
• Summary and conclusions

Donor lung procurement and preservation (Dirk van Raemdonck)

• Lung donors
• Lung preservation
• Lung procurement

Ex Vivo Perfusion (Arne Neyrick & Sofie Ordies)

• Ex Vivo Perfusion

Surgical and anesthesia techniques (Arne Neyrick and Dirk Van Raemdonck)

• Surgical and anesthesia techniques

Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD) after lung transplantion (Robin Vos)

• Introduction to CLAD
• Risk factors of CLAD
• Diagnosis of CLAD
• Management of CLAD
• Prevention of CLAD

Immunosuppressive treatment after lung transplantation (Geert Verleden)

• Introduction into immunosuppressive treatment after lung transplantation
• Background of immunosuppression after lung transplantation
• Induction therapy - part 1
• Induction therapy - part 2
• CNI blockers - part 1
• CNI blockers - part 2
• Cell Cycle Inhibitors - part 1
• Cell Cycle Inhibitors - part 2
• Corticosteroids - intro
• Corticosteroids in accute rejection

Chronic Rejection: AMR (Antoine Roux)

• CLAD and DSA
• AMR diagnosis: in general
• AMR diagnosis: in detail
• DSA - Donor Specific Antibody
• AMR treatment
• Casestudy 1
• Casestudy 2 and conclustions

Lung transplant in patients with pulmonary hypertension (Massimiliano Palazzini)

• Definition of pulmonary hypertension
• Medical therapy for pulmonary artitial hypertension
• Transplantation for pulmonary artitial hypertension
• Conclusions