Kidney transplantation : principles and practice /
| Uniform Title: | Kidney transplantation (Morris) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Elsevier,
[2020]
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| 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.