BookCarlo Gerardo B. Ramirez, Jerry McCauley, editors.
Summary: This book provides a comprehensive guide to successful kidney transplantation in the highly regulated environment of today. It covers the history of kidney transplant to highlight innovations that have made kidney transplantation so successful as well as the new deceased donor kidney allocation strategy and postulates what types of changes might occur with this new policy. The book highlights special areas of nephrology concern in kidney transplantation, especially diseases likely to recur following transplant. It deals with many of the medications used in kidney transplantation including different commonly used antirejection protocols. It also provides a complete reference on the various operations involved in kidney transplantation. The text includes detailed pictures and surgical technique sections on cadaveric kidney transplantation and living kidney transplantation. It includes information on living kidney donation surgery with a chapter dedicated to the minimally invasive techniques that have been popularized in the last fifteen years. Some coverage on open living kidney donation is presented. Included in this section is discussions of how to handle certain operative challenges like severe atherosclerosis, venous sclerosis and various urinary system aberrancies. Comprehensive coverage of common surgical complications is presented including management of urinary strictures, urinary leaks, lymphoceles, vascular problems following transplant, and what steps shoul d be taken when an early kidney transplant biopsy is necessary. It also covers in detail what is required for maintenance of health after kidney transplantation including the major risks for graft loss as well as what disease processes kidney transplant patients are particularly vulnerable to.
Contents:
History of kidney transplantation
Recipient Selection
Indications and contraindications
Evaluation and selection
Special considerations in highly sensitized candidates
Waitlist maintenance
Donor Selection
Living donor
Deceased donor
Standard criteria donors
Extended criteria donors
HBsAg, HBcAb+, HCV donors
CDC high risk donors
Donors on ECMO
Surgical Technique
Organ preservation and preparation
Recipient kidney transplantation surgical technique
Live donor nephrectomy
Kidney Transplantation with other organs
Anesthesia Management
Organ Procurement Organization and New Kidney Allocation
History and rationale for the change
Recent changes and what they will mean
Allocation policies in EU, UK, and other countries
Geographic Variations in Kidney Access- Final Rule Wida (UNOS)
Vulnerable Populations
Special Consideration in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
^Necessary components of a living donor team
Living kidney donor paired exchanges
Early and Late Course after Kidney Transplantation
Early complications after kidney transplantation
Late complications after kidney transplantation
Immunology of Kidney Transplantation
Pathology of Kidney Transplantation
Radiology of Kidney Transplantation
Radiology in kidney transplantation
The role of Interventional radiology
Transplant Immunosuppression
History of immunosuppression: an overview
Special consideration
Tolerance: The Holy grail of Transplantation
Infection in Kidney Transplanation
The Contemporary Successful Kidney Transplant Program
The Regulatory Environment
Quality measure of a contemporary kidney transplant program
The role of transplant coordinators
The finance of kidney transplantation
Kidney transplantation in the third millennium in North America: the strategy for success
^Legal issues of transplant programs in North America in the third millennium
Epidemiology of Kidney Transplantation
Ethics of Transplantation
Psychosocial and financial Aspects of Transplantation
Pediatric Transplantation
Special Topics
Pregnancy after Kidney Transplantation
Future Directions.
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2018- Continuously updated edition