Kidney transplantation : principles and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Kidney transplantation (Morris)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Morris, Peter J., 1943- (Editor), Knechtle, Stuart J. (Editor), Marson, Lorna P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, [2020]
Edition:Eighth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • Histocompatibility in renal transplantation
  • Surgical techniques of kidney transplantation
  • Transplantation and the 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 of kidney injury and rejection
  • Chronic allograft failure
  • Vascular and lymphatic complications after kidney transplantation
  • Urologic complications after kidney transplantation
  • Cardiovascular disease in renal transplantation
  • Infection in kidney transplant recipients
  • Liver disease among renal transplant recipients
  • Neurologic complications after kidney transplantation
  • Cutaneous disease in kidney transplantation patients
  • Cancer in dialysis and transplant patients
  • Pancreas and kidney transplantation for diabetic nephropathy
  • Kidney transplantation in children
  • Kidney transplantation in developing countries
  • Results of renal transplantation
  • Psychosocial aspects of kidney transplantation and living kidney donation
  • Ethical and legal aspects of kidney donation
  • Evidence in transplantation.