Kidney transplantation

Kidney transplantation: principles and practice

by Knechtle, Stuart J. Marson, Lorna P. Morris, Peter J.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Kidney transplantation : principles and practice / [edited by] Stuart J. Knechtle, Lorna P. Marson, Sir Peter J. Morris.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2020
  • Edition:Eighth edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Elsevier
  • Place of Publication:Philadelphia, PA
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 745 pages) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780323547963, 0323547966, 9780323547970, 0323547974
  • oclc:on1120976872
  • LC Classification:RD575
  • Dewey Decimal:617.4/610592

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 af…

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