Full Description
This book provides a guide to the principles and practice of living kidney donation. Concise and well-structured chapters discuss the ethics of living kidney donation, medical evaluation of kidney donors, donor nephrectomy surgery, and long-term outcomes of transplantation, along with broader medical issues related to cardiology, surgery, and anesthesia.
Living Kidney Donation: A Practical Guide aims to give readers the essential information required for undertaking living kidney donation and is relevant to nephrologists, transplant surgeons, and healthcare professionals working in renal transplantation.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Living donor activity.- 3. Ethics of living kidney donation.- 4. Regulatory governance of living kidney donation.- 5. Novel use of living kidney donors.- 6. Barriers to living kidney donation.- 7. Medical evaluation of potential living kidney donors.- 8. Surgical assessment of potential living kidney donors.- 9. High-risk living kidney donors.- 10. Contra-indications to living kidney donation.- 11. Donor nephrectomy surgery.- 12. Peri- and post-operative care of living kidney donors.- 13. Post-donation haemodynamic consequences.- 14. Long-term outcomes.- 15. Strategies to increase living kidney donation.- 16. Summary and concluding chapter.
