This practical text focuses on the diagnosis and management of the subsequent neurologic problems encountered by organ transplant recipients. Due to advances in immunosuppressive drugs, transplant patients are surviving longer, resulting in the occurrence of a number of neurologic problems. Neurologists may feel overwhelmed when called upon to evaluate a postoperative neurologic complication, due in part to the vastness of medical and surgical history. In addition, the neurologic exam is confounded by varying drugs and the large number of catheters that limit access to the patient. This book aims to make neurologists feel more confident in the treatment of transplant patients by systematically reviewing the major neurologic and psychiatric complications that can occur. With the number of transplant surgeries increasing each year, Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplant Recipients is an essential text for all neurologists who are involved or going to be involved in the care of transplant recipients.
Eelco F.M.Wijdicks was born in Leiden, the Netherlands.He earned his MD from the University of Leiden, did his residency and PhD at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and became attending neurologist at University Medical Center Utrecht. He was a visiting scientist and research fellow at Neurologic-Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.He joined the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,Department of Neurology in 1992. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is Professor of Neurology,College of Medicine,Mayo Clinic, the Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology and currently practicing in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic Rochester).
He is the founding editor of the journal Neurocritical care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society.He has over 500 research papers,book chapters,topic reviews and editorials to his credit.He is the senior author of the American Academy of Neurology guidelines on prediction of outcome in comatose survivors after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2006) and the new guidelines on the diagnosis of brain death (2010). He single authored multiple books pertaining to the care of critically ill neurologic patients.
His books received the Commendable Book Award of the British Medical Association (2004) and the Honorable Mention book Award of the American Medical Writers Association(2008).
