40 Years of Thoracic Organ Transplantation - Hardcover

Alivizatos, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1646694996 ISBN 13: 9781646694990

Publisher: Peter Alivizatos, 2019

Synopsis

In this collection of articles, Dr. Alivizatos reviews his experience with thoracic organ transplantation in the United States, Britain, and Greece. He presents not only the outcomes and the lessons learned, but also the political struggles—providing new insights into the history of transplantation. In his inimitable style, Dr. Alivizatos also relates stories of working with several surgical giants, including Dwight Harken, Richard R. Lower, and Sir Magdi Yacoub. This book will appeal to medical and nonmedical readers alike who have an interest in organ transplantation.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Peter A. Alivizatos, MD, was born into a Greek medical family with a long tradition of achieving recognition through public service. After his medical studies and a residency in general surgery, he embarked on long and arduous training in the USA-after England-in order to qualify for the boards in general surgery, as well as in thoracic surgery. It was during those years that he had the rare opportunity to work under three "giants" who made history: Dwight E. Harken, the father of cardiac surgery; Richard R. Lower, the true pioneer of heart transplantation; and Sir Magdi H. Yacoub, the Renaissance genius of our times in cardiac surgery and transplantation. In 1985, he assumed responsibility for starting heart transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center, and by the time he returned to Greece in 1996, the program had performed 233 heart, heart/lung, and lung transplants, including all the "firsts" in North Texas. He created a similar program on a smaller scale at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, based on the principles and lessons learned at Baylor, achieving survival well above internationally reported rates.

Review:

Peter Alivizatos is a scholar, a lover of the medical profession, always a “conservative transplanter,” and always devoted to his patients. This wonderful book places 10 of his previously published articles on heart and lung transplantation under one cover. Seven of the 10 articles had been published in the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal listed on PubMed. Peter covers beautifully the rewards and the difficulties of starting and running a heart and lung transplant program, which he did at two different institutions. His articles on fellow surgeons Dwight Harken, Richard Lower, and Magdi Yacoub display his loyalty to, respect for, and gratitude to these three mentors. Peter has left a surgical legacy at two major institutions and now leaves another with this collection of splendid essays. -William C. Roberts, MD

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Alivizatos
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1646694996
• ISBN 13: 9781646694990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 170