Overview
Provides authoritative, evidence-based guidelines in the evaluation and care of living kidney donors
Offers key elements of assessment, consent and recommendations for optimal care before, during, and after donation
Includes recently published KDIGO clinical guidelines related to transplantation and donor evaluation
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a complete guide to the evaluation, care, and follow-up of living kidney donors. Living donor kidney transplantation is established as the best treatment option for kidney failure. However, despite the tremendous benefits of living donation to recipients and society, the outcomes and optimal care of donors themselves have received relatively less attention. Fortunately, things are changing – including recent landmark developments in living donor risk assessment, policy and guidance.
This volume offers authoritative, evidence-based guidance on the full range of clinical scenarios encountered in the evaluation and care of living kidney donors. The approach to key elements of risk assessment, ethical considerations and informed consent is accompanied by recommendations for patient-centered care before, during, and after donation. Advocacy initiatives and policies to remove disincentives to donation and advance a defensible system of practice are also discussed.
General and transplant nephrologists, as well as related allied health professionals, can look to this book as a comprehensive resource addressing contemporary clinical topics in the practice of living kidney donation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor of Medicine
Mid-America Transplant/Jane A. Beckman Endowed Chair in Transplantation
Division of Nephrology / Center for Abdominal Transplantation
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Beatrice P. Concepcion, MD
Assistant Professor of MedicineDepartment of Medicine
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA
Edgar V. Lerma, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Department of MedicineSection of Nephrology
Department of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine/
Associates in Nephrology, S.C.
Chicago, IL, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living Kidney Donation
Book Subtitle: Best Practices in Evaluation, Care and Follow-up
Editors: Krista L. Lentine, Beatrice P. Concepcion, Edgar V. Lerma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53618-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53617-6Published: 06 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53620-6Published: 07 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53618-3Published: 05 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 378
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nephrology, Transplant Surgery