Issues in Kidney Disease -- Transplantation

Kidney Associates, PLLC, St. Lukes Medical Towers, Houston, TX, US

Preface; Foreword; An Overview of Kidney Transplantation; Medical Evaluation of the Potential Transplant Recipient; Evaluation of the Living Kidney Donor, And Kidney Paired Donation; Histocompatibility in Renal Transplantation, and Immunology of Transplant Rejection; Transplantation in the Highly Sensitized Recipient, and Living Donor Transplantation with Incompatible ABO Blood Group; Immunosuppression in Transplantation; The Banff Classification of Kidney Transplant Rejection; Management of Kidney Transplant Rejection; Infectious Complications After Transplantation; Malignancies after Transplantation; Recurrent Disease in the Kidney Allograft; Long-Term Care of the Kidney Transplant Recipient; Short and Long-Term Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation; Multi-Organ Transplantation Involving the Kidney: Eligibility and Controversies in Allocation; The Transplant Failure Return to Dialysis, Transplant Nephrectomy, and Re-Transplantation; Psychosocial Aspects of Kidney Transplantation in Kidney Transplant Recipients and Living Donors; Ethics in Renal Transplantation; Index.