Kidney Transplantation. Principles And Practice

1. Kidney Transplantation: A History

2. The Immunology of Transplantation

3. Chronic Kidney Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy

4. The Recipient of a Renal Transplant

5. Access for Renal Replacement Therapy

6. Brain Death and Cardiac Death: Donor Criteria and Care of Deceased Donor

7. Medical Evaluation of the Living Donor

8. Donor Nephrectomy

9. Kidney Preservation

10. Histocompatability in Kidney Transplantation

11. Surgical Techniques of Kidney Transplantation

12. Urological Complications After Kidney Transplant and Transplantation Into an Abnormal Bladder

13. Perioperative Care of Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation

14. Early Course of the Patient With a Kidney Transplant

15. Azathioprine and Mycophenolates

16. Steroids

17. Calcineurin Inhibitors

18. mTOR Inhibitors: Sirolimus and Everolimus

19. Antilymphocyte Globulin, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Fusion Proteins

20. Other Forms of Immunosuppression

21. Approaches to the Induction of Tolerance

22. Transplantation in the Sensitized Recipient and Across ABO Blood Groups

23. Paired Exchange Programs for Living Donors,

24. Kidney Allocation

25. Pathology of Kidney Transplantation

26. Biomarkers for Posttransplant Allograft Monitoring

27. Chronic Allograft Failure

28. Vascular and Lymphatic Complications After Kidney Transplantation

29. Cardiovascular Disease in Renal Transplantation

30. Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients

31. Transplantation in a Pandemic: Lessons Learned From COVID-19

32. Liver Disease Among Renal Transplant Recipients

33. Neurological Complications After Kidney Transplantation

34. Cutaneous Disease in Kidney Transplantation Patients

35. Cancer in Kidney Failure and Kidney Transplantation

36. Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation for Diabetic Nephropathy

37. Kidney Transplantation in Children

38. Advancing Kidney Transplantation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Challenges and Strategies

39. Results of Kidney Transplantation

40. Psychosocial Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation

41. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Kidney Donation

42. Xenotransplantation

43. Evidence in Transplantation

A must-have resource for all members of the transplant team, Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 9th Edition, provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on every aspect of this complex field. Drs. Stuart J. Knechtle and Lorna P. Marson, along with a global team of internationally renowned surgeons and nephrologists, offer balanced coverage of both surgical techniques and medical considerations related to kidney transplantation. With updates from cover to cover, this core reference delivers the practical guidance you need to achieve optimal outcomes in both adults and children.

• Offers state-of-the-art coverage of all areas of kidney transplantation such as preservation of kidneys; mechanisms of rejection and the induction of tolerance; techniques of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy; and immunosuppression
• Contains up-to-date outcomes data and analysis of the evidence supporting current practice in the field
• Includes new chapters on xenotransplantation and COVID-19 in renal transplantation
• Adds new information on normothermic regional perfusion to the discussion of DCD organ donation and ethics of transplantation, and new information on iBox (the first universal algorithm for predicting the risk of kidney transplant loss) to the biomarkers section
• Provides relevant, up-to-date information on kidney transplant for all members of the transplant team, with practical information on applied science, clinical information, and surgical procedures
• Features intraoperative videos and hundreds of superb illustrations to help readers visualize key concepts and nuances of renal transplantation
• Covers each major immunosuppressive drug in individual chapters, and provides a reference list of all randomized trials for convenient access to critical information
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Stuart Knechtle, M.D. is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Surgery and Executive Director of the Duke Transplant Center. He trained in surgery at Duke and in transplant surgery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he was appointed as the first Ray D. Owen Professor of Transplantation. He moved to Emory University in 2008 as the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Professor of Liver Transplantation. In 2015 he returned to Duke to establish the Duke Transplant Center and serve as its Executive Director. He holds the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in Surgery at Duke. His clinical practice includes kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation. He directs translational research in transplant immunology and currently serves as Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded clinical trials addressing the challenges of antibody-mediated injury of kidney transplants. He has published over 400 peer reviewed papers, over 60 book chapters, edited four textbooks, and serves on several editorial boards including Annals of Surgery.

Lorna Marson is Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Lorna held a Clinician Scientist Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences/ Health Foundation from 2003-2008, and continues to work in clinically relevant research in renal transplantation, with translation of a novel agent from bench to bedside. Lorna is Past President of the British Transplantation Society, elected Board member of the European Kidney Transplant Association, and Co-Director of the UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network. She is Associate Medical Director for Research and Development, Organ and Tissues Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant.