DESCRIPTION:
Kidney Transplants are the most frequently performed solid organ transplants. Pancreas transplantation offers unique survival and quality of life benefits to selected diabetics with or without concomitant renal failure. Usually, kidney and pancreas transplant recipients are managed by the same team of physicians and surgeons. Current textbooks dealing with kidney and pancreas transplantation are unfortunately usually in the form of introductory manuals or primers and lack crucial practical detail and scientific depth relevant to the practicing physician. The transplant physicians and surgeons at Cleveland Clinic have collaborated to produce a textbook devoted to kidney and pancreas transplantation that addresses the need for a work that is well grounded in scientific principles, quantitative clinical reasoning, clinical pharmacology, tested clinical practices and overall clinical applicability. Also addressed are key aspects in the initiation, maintenance and sustained growth of viable clinical programs in kidney and pancreas transplantation.
CONTENTS:
1. Immunobiology of transplantation
2. Measuring Alloimmunity: Histocompatibility, Alloreactivity
3. Quantitative Aspects of Clinical Reasoning
4. Clinical Pharmacologic Principles and Immunosuppression
5. Epidemiology of End Stage Renal Disease: Populations, Ethnicity, Risk
6. Immunosuppressive Regimens in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
7. Organ Procurement and Preservation
8. Living Kidney Donation
9. Recipient Selection and Preparation
10. Kidney Transplant Operation Pancreas Transplant Operation
11. Perioperative Management
12. Immediate Complications of Renal and Pancreas Transplantation
13. Pathology of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
14. Late Complications of Renal and Pancreas Transplantation
15. Infectious Complications: Prevention and Treatment
16. The Elderly Transplant Recipient
17. Psychology, Quality of Life and Rehabilitation after Transplantation
18. The Business of Transplantation
19. Transplant Medicine as a Team Enterprise
20. Ethical Issues in Transplantation
21. Urologic Care of the Transplant Patient
