Living Kidney Donation : A Practical Guide /

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 medica...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Sharif, Adnan (Editor), Lipkin, Graham (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:	Internal medicine. Surgery. Anesthesiology. Internal Medicine. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.