Living kidney donation : a practical guide / Adnan Sharif, Graham Lipkin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharīf, ʻAdnān, editor.

Lipkin, Graham, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kidneys--Transplantation.

Kidneys.

Organ donors--Care.

Organ donors.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 261 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2022]

Summary:

This book provides a guide to the principles and practice of living kidney donation. Concise and well-structured chapters discuss the ethics of living kidney donation, medical evaluation of kidney donors, donor nephrectomy surgery, and long-term outcomes of transplantation, along with broader medical issues related to cardiology, surgery, and anesthesia. Living Kidney Donation: A Practical Guide aims to give readers the essential information required for undertaking living kidney donation and is relevant to nephrologists, transplant surgeons, and healthcare professionals working in renal transplantation.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Living donor activity

3. Ethics of living kidney donation

4. Regulatory governance of living kidney donation

5. Novel use of living kidney donors

6. Barriers to living kidney donation

7. Medical evaluation of potential living kidney donors

8. Surgical assessment of potential living kidney donors

9. High-risk living kidney donors

10. Contra-indications to living kidney donation

11. Donor nephrectomy surgery

12. Peri- and post-operative care of living kidney donors

13. Post-donation haemodynamic consequences

14. Long-term outcomes

15. Strategies to increase living kidney donation

16. Summary and concluding chapter.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: LIVING KIDNEY DONATION.

ISBN:

9783031095207

3031095200

OCLC:

1350794448

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.