Artificial Organs

✍ Scribed by Michael Devile BSc MBBS MRCP(UK, Parind Patel BSc MBBS DMS FRCA EDICM (auth.), Nadey S. Hakim (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Series: New Techniques in Surgery Series 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 European and 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Management of Multiorgan Failure After Artificial Organ Implantation....Pages 1-19
Artificial Circulatory Support....Pages 21-37
The Artificial Kidney....Pages 39-55
Liver Substitution....Pages 57-76
Glucose Sensors and Insulin Pumps: Prospects for an Artificial Pancreas....Pages 77-91
From Basic Wound Healing to Modern Skin Engineering....Pages 93-105
Artificial Sphincters....Pages 107-132
Cochlear Implant....Pages 133-136
Stem Cells and Organ Replacement....Pages 137-163
Composite Tissue Transplantation: A Stage Between Surgical Reconstruction and Cloning....Pages 165-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-183

✦ Subjects

Surgery; Transplant Surgery; Biomedical Engineering