The Washington Manual of Transplant Nephrology

Description:

Focusing on the essential information you need to know for successful patient care, The Washington Manual® of Transplant Nephrology provides concise, high-yield content essential for nephrology fellows, transplant trainees, and practitioners, as well as for the entire team involved in pre- and post-transplant care.

Edited by Dr.

Tarek Alhamad, lead editor of The Washington Manual Nephrology Subspecialty Consult, it presents state-of-the-art, comprehensive information in a brief, bulleted format, along with numerous figures, tables, algorithms, and images throughout.

Table of Contents:

1 Cells and Soluble Mediators in the Immune System

2 Transplant Immunobiology

3 The Science of Histocompatibility Testing

4 Evaluation of Kidney Transplant Candidates

5 Living Donor Evaluation

6 Allocation System and Organ Procurement Organization

7 The Art of Procurement

8 Transplant Surgery and Surgical Complications

9 Induction Therapy

10 Maintenance Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplantation

11 Transplant Pathology

12 Cellular Rejection

13 Antibody-Mediated Rejection

14 Posttransplant Glomerular Disease

15 Complement Disorders

16 Posttransplant Infections

17 Posttransplant Malignancy

18 Pregnancy After Transplant

19 Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus

20 ABO-, HLA-Incompatible Transplantation and Paired Exchange

21 Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

22 Pancreas Transplantation

23 Multiorgan Transplantation

24 Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation

25 Management of Failing Kidney Transplant

Index