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Cardiac Transplantation offers Insider's View into Patient Management from One of the World's Premiere Heart Transplant Centers

New York, NY (March 23, 2004) — In a new book co-edited by leading physicians, Cardiac Transplantation: The Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Manual, serves as an invaluable hands-on guide to the clinical management of transplant donors and recipients.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center is one of the world's leading heart transplant centers. Unprecedentedly rapid advances in the areas of both immunosuppression and surgical technique not only have made cardiac transplantation the gold-standard surgical therapy for end-stage heart disease, but have also challenged practitioners to keep thoroughly up-to-date. Editors Niloo M. Edwards, MD, Jonathan M. Chen, MD, and Pamela A. Mazzeo, summarize in this easy-to-use and eminently practical handbook the day-to-day management of transplant donors and recipients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Chen is an Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, and is also Site Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center. He specializes in pediatric and adult congenital heart surgery, heart transplantation, and ventricular assist devices. Dr. Edwards is the Chairman of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. His clinical specialties include the surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease, heart transplantation, coronary bypass surgery, heart valve repair and replacement, minimal access heart surgery, open heart surgery for the geriatric patient, LVAD implantation, and xenotransplantation. Prior to his current position, Dr. Edwards served as the Director of Cardiac Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital from 1997-2003.

Topics covered in the book range from surgical techniques, pathology, and immunosuppression, to post-transplant management, pediatric heart transplantation, surgical alternatives, and mechanical circulatory assistance as a bridge to transplantation. The authors also discuss congenital transplant techniques, state-of-the-art perioperative management techniques and protocols, UNOS regulation, and nurse coordination.

Cardiac Transplantation: The Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital Manual offers transplant clinicians and nurses a clinically relevant, hands-on guidebook to patient management from leaders in clinical transplantation at one of the largest transplant centers in the world.

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