Description
Offering practical guidance for all members of the transplant team, Kidney Transplantation, Principles and Practice, 8th Edition, provides the balanced, up-to-date information you need to achieve optimal outcomes for your patients. A global team of internationally renowned surgeons and nephrologists, many new to this edition, offers fresh perspectives on everything from applied science and surgical techniques to immunosuppressive methods, outcomes, risks, and medical considerations related to kidney transplantation, in both adults and children.- Offers state-of-the-art coverage of all areas of kidney transplantation such as preservation of kidneys; mechanisms of rejection and the induction of tolerance; techniques of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy; and immunosuppression.- Contains up-to-date outcomes data and analysis of the evidence supporting current practice in the field.- Includes new information on desensitization and considerable new data on the clinical use of costimulation blockade.- Keeps you current with new chapters on kidney allocation policy that reflects the ethical and societal values of different countries and populations; and biomarkers of kidney injury and rejection, including the need for better monitoring tools to guide therapy and patient management.- Covers hot topics such as management of chronic allograft failure, the sensitized patient and antibody-mediated rejection, and paired exchange principles.- Features hundreds of superb illustrations to help you visualize key concepts and nuances of renal transplantation.- Provides dynamic visual guidance with new real-time video coverage of ultrasound-guided pancreas allograft biopsy; a new animation of calcineurin inhibitor mechanism of action animation; and videos that demonstrate the formation of an immune synapse, 3-D rotational images of immune synapses, an NK cell killing its target, peritoneal dialysis-catheter insertion techniques, laparoendoscopic single site (LESS) donor nephrectomy, and more.- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
Table of Contents
Kidney Transplantation - Principles and Practice, 8e1. Kidney Transplant: A History2. The Immunology of Transplantation3. Chronic Kidney Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy4. The Recipient of A Renal Transplant5. Access for Renal Replacement Therapy6. Brain Death and Cardiac Death: Donor Criteria and Care of Deceased Donor7. Medical Evaluation of the Living Donor8. Donor Nephrectomy9. Kidney Preservation10. Histocompatability in Kidney Transplantation11. Surgical Techniques of Kidney Transplantation12. Transplantation and the Abnormal Bladder13. Perioperative Care of Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation14. Early Course of the Patient with a Kidney Transplant15. Azathioprine and Mycophenolates16. Steroids17. Calcineurin Inhibitors18. mTor Inhibitors: Sirolimus & Everolimus19. Antilymphocyte Globulin, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Fusion Proteins20. Other Forms of Immunosuppression21. Approaches to the Induction of Tolerance22. Transplantation in the Sensitized Recipient & Across ABO Blood Groups23. Paired Exchange Programs for Living Donors24. Kidney allocation25. Pathology of Kidney Transplantation26. Biomarkers in Kidney Injury and Rejection27. Chronic Allograft Failure28. Vascular and Lymphatic Complications after Kidney Transplantation29. Urological Complications after Kidney Transplantation30. Cardiovascular Disease in Renal Transplantation31. Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients32. Liver Disease among Renal Transplant Recipients33. Neurological Complications after Kidney Transplantation34. Cutaneous Disease in Kidney Transplantation Patients35. Cancer in Dialysis and Transplant Patients36. Pancreas & Kidney Transplantation for Diabetic Nephropathy37. Kidney Transplantation in Children38. Kidney Transplantation in Developing Countries39. Results of Renal Transplantation40. Psychological Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation41. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Kidney Donation42. Evidence in Transplantation
