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- Addresses organizational issues that are vital to the good performance of transplant programs
- Covers key controversies and administrative issues unique to kidney transplantation
- Includes detailed pictures and surgical technique sections
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Organ and Tissue Transplantation (OTT)
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Table of contents (28 entries)
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Front Matter
About this book
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 probl
ems following transplant, and what steps should 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.Editors and Affiliations
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Transplant Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA
Carlo Gerardo B. Ramirez
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Division of Nephrology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Jerry McCauley
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Kidney Transplantation
Editors: Carlo Gerardo B. Ramirez, Jerry McCauley
Series Title: Organ and Tissue Transplantation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19617-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19616-9Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19617-6Published: 26 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2570-1592
Series E-ISSN: 2570-1606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 437
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transplant Surgery, Nephrology