Full Description
This 'no-nonsense' practical guide to clinical transplantation is a go-to, single-source book for transplant surgeons and healthcare professionals specialising in abdominal transplantation. In addition to standard topics, this book addresses sub-specialty areas such as robotics, living donation, dialysis access, immunobiology, and transplant urology.
Benefiting from an international group of expert contributors, this book offers up-to-date clinical knowledge and advice on common pitfalls, decision-making algorithms and practical 'tips and tricks' for surgical operative techniques. These are enhanced by visual mind maps that offer a rapid, at-a-glance review of each topic.
This makes it an essential resource for those taking specialist exams, such as the FRCS or European or American Boards of Surgery. Equally, it serves as a roadmap for trainees starting afresh in transplantation, as well as for general surgeons, nephrologists, and nurse specialists approaching transplantation from a new perspective.
Contents
Modern transplant programmes.- Essential concepts of transplant immunology.- Matching donors to recipients.- Retrieving deceased donor organs and tissues.- Living kidney donor assessment.- Urological considerations for living kidney donors.- Organ perfusion and storage.- Renal replacement therapy - Haemodialysis.- Renal replacement therapy - Peritoneal dialysis.- Kidney and liver recipient assessment.- Living donor nephrectomy.- Living donor hepatectomy.- Urological considerations for renal transplant recipients.- Renal transplantation.- Liver transplantation.- Simultaneous liver and kidney transplantation.- Treating diabetes and end-stage kidney disease.- Beta-cell replacement therapy.- Treating intestinal failure.- Multivisceral transplantation.- Uterus transplantation.- Surgical care following transplantation.- Technology and innovation in transplantation.- Artificial intelligence and machine learning in transplantation.
