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- Is geared specifically towards the primary care provider and their care of solid organ transplant patients
- Offers an organ-specific standpoint as well as a systems-based view of complications
- Allows physicians to easily narrow in on a specific topic to aid in efficiency of care
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Solid organ transplantation offers a new chance at life to those suffering from failing organs. With these successes, however, comes the everyday management that is required to maintain health. The field of solid organ transplantation has become a part of medicine that generalists should be familiar with, as recipients are living longer and frequently returning to primary care for management. While specialists will still need to be involved with the care of solid organ transplant recipients on a life-long basis, many conditions will still need initial and often ongoing care by generalists, including infections, metabolic conditions, psychiatric illnesses, and malignancy.
This book focuses on the care of adult solid organ transplant recipients, and is targeted at the level of the primary care provider. It begins with an introduction and overviews of solid organ transplantation and anti-rejection medications. It then delves into organ-specific chapters that provide the primary care provider with an overview of how to take care of patients with the most commonly-transplanted solid organs: kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, heart, and lung. The final section focuses on specific complications that arise from transplantation including cancer, metabolic conditions, infections, and common presenting syndromes. Preventative health is also discussed, and the book concludes with a chapter on palliative care.
Primary Care of the Solid Organ Transplant Recipient is a unique text that provides the reader with organ and complication-specific sections that can be independently read as they relate to the individual physicians and their patients. Written by experts in the field, this text is a valuable resource for primary care providers, medical students, residents and anyone involved in the care of solid organ transplant recipients.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Christopher J. Wong
About the editor
Christopher Wong, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. He practices full-time primary care internal medicine in the University teaching clinic. His publication interests have included the care of solid organ transplant recipients, hyperlipidemia, perioperative medicine, preventive health in primary care, and transitions of care in the ambulatory care setting. He created and co-edited the first edition of The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook, now in its 3rd edition.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Primary Care of the Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Editors: Christopher J. Wong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50629-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50628-5Published: 03 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50631-5Published: 03 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50629-2Published: 02 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 325
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine