Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1. An Overview of Kidney Transplantation
(Charles T. Van Buren – Department of Surgery, McGovern School of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 2. Medical Evaluation of the Potential Transplant Recipient
(Taquiuddin Khaja, Mauricio A. Amaya and Ahmed A. Awan – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 3. Evaluation of the Living Kidney Donor, And Kidney Paired Donation
(Stephen Z. Fadem and Bhamidipati V. R. Murthy – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Kidney Associates, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 4. Histocompatibility in Renal Transplantation, and Immunology of Transplant Rejection
(Peter Jindra – Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 5. Transplantation in the Highly Sensitized Recipient, and Living Donor Transplantation with Incompatible ABO Blood Group
(Patricia West-Thielke, Pierpaolo Di Cocco, Enrico Benedetti, and Bruce Kaplan – Departments of Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, et al.)
Chapter 6. Immunosuppression in Transplantation
(Vishnu Parvathareddy and Nidhi Aggarwal – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 7. The Banff Classification of Kidney Transplant Rejection
(Sadhna Dhingra and Luan D Truong – Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 8. Management of Kidney Transplant Rejection
(Nidhi Aggarwal – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 9. Infectious Complications After Transplantation
(Marion Hemmersbach-Miller and Tyler M. Lambing – Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 10. Malignancies after Transplantation
(Stephen Blake Tanner and Mohanram Narayanan – Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 11. Recurrent Disease in the Kidney Allograft
(Pascale Khairallah, Taquiddin Khaja and Bhamidipati V. R. Murthy – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et. al)
Chapter 12. Long-Term Care of the Kidney Transplant Recipient
(Joseph Alge and Jenny S. Pan – Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 13. Short and Long-Term Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation
(Elizabeth Godfrey and Abbas Rana – Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, et al.)
Chapter 14. Multi-Organ Transplantation Involving the Kidney: Eligibility and Controversies in Allocation (Angelina Edwards – Division of Kidney Diseases, Hypertension & Transplantation, Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 15. The Transplant Failure – Return to Dialysis, Transplant Nephrectomy, and Re-Transplantation
(Medha Airy – Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 16. Psychosocial Aspects of Kidney Transplantation in Kidney Transplant Recipients and Living Donors
(Angelina Edwards – Division of Kidney Diseases, Hypertension & Transplantation, Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 17. Ethics in Renal Transplantation
(Charles T. Van Buren – Department of Surgery, McGovern School of Medicine, University of Texas Health, Houston, TX, USA)
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