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Kidney Transplantation : Principles and Practice / [edited by] Stuart J. Knechtle and Lorna P. Marson
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ClinicalKey.
- ClinicalKey
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidneys--Transplantation.
- Kidneys.
- Transplantation immunology.
- Kidney Transplantation.
- Renal Insufficiency--surgery.
- Transplantation Immunology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Kidney Transplantation.
- Renal Insufficiency--surgery.
- Transplantation Immunology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 811 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Edition:
- Ninth Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2026.
- System Details:
- text file html
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 9th Edition, provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on every aspect of this complex field. Drs. Stuart J. Knechtle and Lorna P. Marson, along with a global team of surgeons and nephrologists, offer balanced coverage of both surgical techniques and medical considerations related to kidney transplantation. With updates from cover to cover, this reference delivers practical guidance for optimal outcomes in both adults and children. -- Publisher
- Contents:
- Kidney transplantation: A history
- The immunology of transplantation
- Chronic kidney failure: Renal replacement therapy
- The recipient of a renal transplant
- Access for renal replacement therapy
- Brain death and cardiac death: Donor criteria and care of deceased donor
- Medical evaluation of the living donor
- Donor nephrectomy
- Kidney preservation
- Histocompatability in kidney transplantation
- Surgical techniques of kidney transplantation
- Urological complications after kidney transplant and transplantation into an abnormal bladder
- Perioperative care of patients undergoing kidney transplantation
- Early course of the patient with a kidney transplant
- Azathioprine and mycophenolates
- Steroids
- Calcineurin inhibitors
- mTOR inhibitors: Sirolimus and everolimus
- Antilymphocyte globulin, monoclonal antibodies, and fusion proteins
- Other forms of immunosuppression
- Approaches to the induction of tolerance
- Transplantation in the sensitized recipient and across ABO blood groups
- Paired exchange programs for living donors
- Kidney allocation
- Pathology of kidney transplantation
- Biomarkers for posttransplant allograft monitoring
- Chronic allograft failure
- Vascular and lymphatic complications after kidney transplantation
- Cardiovascular disease in renal transplantation
- Infection in kidney transplant recipients
- Transplantation in a pandemic: Lessons learned from COVID-19
- Liver disease among renal transplant recipients
- Neurological complications after kidney transplantation
- Cutaneous disease in kidney transplantation patients
- Cancer in kidney failure and kidney transplantation
- Pancreas and kidney transplantation for diabetic nephropathy
- Kidney transplantation in children
- Advancing kidney transplantation in low- and middle-income countries: Challenges and strategies
- Results of kidney transplantation
- Psychosocial aspects of kidney transplantation and living kidney donation
- Ethical and legal aspects of kidney donation
- Xenotransplantation
- Evidence in transplantation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Online resource; title from table of contents page (Elsevier ClinicalKey, viewed February 11, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9780443113291 (hardcover)
- 0443113297 (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 1484371585
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