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Offering practical guidance for all members of the transplant team, Kidney Transplantation, Principles and Practice, 8th Edition, provides the balanced, up-to-date information you need to achieve optimal outcomes for your patients. A global team of internationally renowned surgeons and nephrologists, many new to this edition, offers fresh perspectives on everything from applied science and surgical techniques to immunosuppressive methods, outcomes, risks, and medical considerations related to kidney transplantation, in both adults and children.

With meticulous updates throughout, Kidney Transplantation remains your definitive medical resource for state-of-the-art answers on every aspect of renal transplantation. A multidisciplinary approach from internationally renowned nephrologists from around the world offers practice-applicable guidance for all members of the transplant team. With coverage encompassing applied science, surgical techniques, immunosuppressive methods, outcomes, risks, and medical considerations related to kidney transplantation, both in adults and children, you’ll have the balanced information you need to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Features of Kidney Transplantation Principles and Practice 8th Edition:

Following are the features of this book are given below;

• Offers state-of-the-art coverage of all areas of kidney transplantation such as preservation of kidneys; mechanisms of rejection and the induction of tolerance; techniques of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy; and immunosuppression.
• Contains up-to-date outcomes data and analysis of the evidence supporting current practice in the field.
• Includes new information on desensitization and considerable new data on the clinical use of costimulation blockade.
• Keeps you current with new chapters on kidney allocation policy that reflects the ethical and societal values of different countries and populations; and biomarkers of kidney injury and rejection, including the need for better monitoring tools to guide therapy and patient management.
• Covers hot topics such as management of chronic allograft failure, the sensitized patient and antibody-mediated rejection, and paired exchange principles.
• Features hundreds of superb illustrations to help you visualize key concepts and nuances of renal transplantation.
• Provides dynamic visual guidance with new real-time video coverage of ultrasound-guided pancreas allograft biopsy; a new animation of calcineurin inhibitor mechanism of action animation; and videos that demonstrate the formation of an immune synapse, 3-D rotational images of immune synapses, an NK cell killing its target, peritoneal dialysis-catheter insertion techniques, laparoendoscopic single site (LESS) donor nephrectomy, and more.

Table of Contents:

1. Kidney Transplant: A History

2. The Immunology of Transplantation

3. Chronic Kidney Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy

4. The Recipient of A Renal Transplant

5. Access for Renal Replacement Therapy

6. Brain Death and Cardiac Death: Donor Criteria and Care of Deceased Donor

7. Medical Evaluation of the Living Donor

8. Donor Nephrectomy

9. Kidney Preservation

10. Histocompatability in Kidney Transplantation

11. Surgical Techniques of Kidney Transplantation

12. Transplantation and the Abnormal Bladder

13. Perioperative Care of Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation

14. Early Course of the Patient with a Kidney Transplant

15. Azathioprine and Mycophenolates

16. Steroids

17. Calcineurin Inhibitors

18. mTor Inhibitors: Sirolimus & Everolimus

19. Antilymphocyte Globulin, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Fusion Proteins

20. Other Forms of Immunosuppression

21. Approaches to the Induction of Tolerance

22. Transplantation in the Sensitized Recipient & Across ABO Blood Groups

23. Paired Exchange Programs for Living Donors

24. Kidney allocation

25. Pathology of Kidney Transplantation

26. Biomarkers in Kidney Injury and Rejection

27. Chronic Allograft Failure

28. Vascular and Lymphatic Complications after Kidney Transplantation

29. Urological Complications after Kidney Transplantation

30. Cardiovascular Disease in Renal Transplantation

31. Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients

32. Liver Disease among Renal Transplant Recipients

33. Neurological Complications after Kidney Transplantation

34. Cutaneous Disease in Kidney Transplantation Patients

35. Cancer in Dialysis and Transplant Patients

36. Pancreas & Kidney Transplantation for Diabetic Nephropathy

37. Kidney Transplantation in Children

38. Kidney Transplantation in Developing Countries

39. Results of Renal Transplantation

40. Psychological Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation

41. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Kidney Donation

42. Evidence in Transplantation

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