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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