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Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life by Robert Finn
Copyright 2000 Robert Finn. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
Published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472.
Editor: Linda Lamb
Production Editor: Sarah Jane Shangraw
Cover Design: Kathleen Wilson, Ellie Volckhausen, and Edie Freedman
Printing History
January 2000: First Edition
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This book is meant to educate and should not be used as an alternative for professional medical care. Although we have exerted every effort to ensure that the information presented is accurate at the time of publication, there is no guarantee that this information will remain current over time. Appropriate medical professionals should be consulted before adopting any procedures or treatments discussed in this book.
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ISBN: 1-56592-634-X [M]
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Dedicated to organ donors everywhere.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
ix
Preface
xi
1. Considering a Transplant
1
2. The System
17
3. The Wait
46
4. Heart and Lung Transplants
62
5. Liver Transplants
83
6. Kidney and Pancreas Transplants
94
7. Other Transplants
107
8. Anti-Rejection Drugs
115
9. Living with a Transplant
143
10. Emotional Responses
159
11. Family and Support
175
12. Transplants in Children
198
13. Living Donors
209
14. Donors and Recipients
230
15. Financial Issues
246
16. Traveling for Treatment
266
17. The Future of Transplantation
281
Resources
281
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Notes
295
Index
299
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Foreword
Looking at those long, and lengthening, waiting lists for organs and tissues is, I imagine, one of the most agonizing experiences a sick person can have.
Knowing that at the end of it a new life is waiting and yet having to get through every day until then, never knowing when that moment will come, could undermine anyone's morale.
Let's remember, however, those lists are growing not because there are fewer donors but because new, and still developing, techniques can cure people who even a few years ago had no chance. People who were considered far too old, too young, or too sick for a transplant are now regularly being given a second chance at life.
Those transplants are working better too. These are not experimental procedures any more. Tens of thousands of people all over the world are living healthy, productive lives with new hearts or corneas or lungs. Unlike other serious illnesses, where rehabilitation is typically painfully slow, these patients surprisingly often bounce back to life, with a sparkle in their eyes that shows they feel they have been reborn.
Time and again when talking to recipients, I hear someone who has been living like an invalid say, "I've never felt better in my life."
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