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Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients

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Editors:
  1. Dianne B. McKay

    1. Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA

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  2. Steven M. Steinberg

    1. Division of Transplantation, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, USA

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  • A Complete Guide to the Management of Kidney Transplantation

  • Practical and easy-to-use resource

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Ten Things Not to Do

    • Dianne B. McKay, Steven M. Steinberg
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Transplant Procedure: Surgical Techniques and Complications

    • Barry J. Browne
    Pages 15-23

  4. What Is Transplant Immunology and Why Are Allografts Rejected?

    • Dianne B. McKay, Ken Park, David Perkins
    Pages 25-39

  5. What Is Histocompatibility Testing and How Is It Done?

    • Edgar L. Milford, Indira Guleria
    Pages 41-55

  6. Kidney Allocation: Role of UNOS and OPOs

    • Patricia L. Adams, Walter K. Graham, Susan Gunderson
    Pages 57-72

  7. Live Donors: How to Optimally Protect the Donor

    • Robert Steiner
    Pages 73-93

  8. Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: Essentials for the Nephrologist

    • Arturo Martinez
    Pages 95-102

  9. New Sources in Living Kidney Donation

    • Ruthanne L. Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, M. Utku Ünver, Francis L. Delmonico
    Pages 103-117

  10. What Are Immunosuppressive Medications? How Do They Work? What Are Their Side Effects?

    • Peter Chung-Wen Chang, Donald E. Hricik
    Pages 119-135

  11. Optimizing Immunosuppression

    • Alexander C. Wiseman, James E. Cooper
    Pages 137-152

  12. Evaluation of Renal Allograft Dysfunction

    • Robert S. Gaston
    Pages 153-168

  13. The Kidney Transplant Biopsy

    • Jose R. Torrealba, Milagros D. Samaniego
    Pages 169-190

  14. Evaluation of the Kidney Transplant Candidate and Follow-Up of the Listed Patient

    • Roy D. Bloom, Alden M. Doyle
    Pages 191-206

  15. The Acute Care of the Transplant Recipient

    • Phuong-Thu T. Pham, Phuong-Chi T. Pham, Gabriel M. Danovitch
    Pages 207-235

  16. Post-transplant Cardiovascular Disease

    • Phuong-Anh T. Pham, Carmen Slavov, Phuong-Thu T. Pham, Alan H. Wilkinson
    Pages 237-254

  17. Diabetes Mellitus and Transplantation: Risks for Post-transplant Diabetes

    • Phuong-Thu T. Pham, Phuong-Mai T. Pham, Alan H. Wilkinson
    Pages 255-276

  18. Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    • Carlos A.Q. Santos, Daniel C. Brennan
    Pages 277-309

  19. Malignancies Before and After Transplantation

    • Mary B. Prendergast, Roslyn B. Mannon
    Pages 311-326

  20. Bone Disease in Renal Transplantation

    • Bradford Lee West, Stuart M. Sprague, Michelle A. Josephson
    Pages 327-341
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About this book

Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Transplant Recipients is an easy to read, up to date, clinical resource written by experts in the field of kidney transplantation. The book explains how donors and recipients are selected for transplantation, how the surgical procedure is performed, and how the experts recognize and treat rejection.

Clearly illustrated chapters show how the immune system works in the setting of transplantation and how immunosuppressive medications prevent rejection of the transplanted kidney; knowledge essential for the proper care of the transplant recipient.

The acute and long-term care of the patient is described from the perspective not only of proper immunosuppressive medication management, but also from the perspective of comorbidities most common to transplanted patients, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, infectious diseases, malignancies, and bone disease. Special issues that impact the care of the transplant recipient, such as unusual donor sources, nonadherence and insurability are also addressed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA

    Dianne B. McKay

  • Division of Transplantation, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, USA

    Steven M. Steinberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients

  • Editors: Dianne B. McKay, Steven M. Steinberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1690-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1689-1Published: 04 May 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1690-7Published: 26 April 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 407

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nephrology, Transplant Surgery, Internal Medicine

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