Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I – Steroid Avoidance Protocols in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation (pp. 1-26)
Orly Haskin, M.D. and Paul C. Grimm, M.D. (Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, US)
Chapter II – Sirolimus in Pediatric Renal Transplantation (pp. 27-56)
Belde Kasap, M.D. (Ýzmir Katip Çelebi University, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Ýzmir-Turkey)
Chapter III – Alemtuzumab: The Third Agent (pp. 57-66)
Leonard C. Hymes, M.D. (Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, US and others)
Chapter IV – BK-Polyomavirus Associated Nephritis (pp. 67-98)
Jennifer A. Jackson, M.D. (University of Kentucky, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Nephrology& Renal Transplant Division, KY, US)
Chapter V – Protocol Biopsies in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients (pp. 99-116)
Patricia E. Birk, M.D., FRCP(C), Medical Director (Pediatric Kidney Program-Transplant Manitoba, Children’s Hospital, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
Chapter VI – Adherence in the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipient (pp. 117-136)
Hilda Fernandez, M.D., MSCE and Sandra Amaral, M.D., MHS (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, US)
Index
Audience: Pediatric Nephrologists, Transplant pharmacologists and immunologists