Main description:

Challenges and Controversies in Kidney Transplantation highlights the most up-to-date strategies for successfully managing high-risk kidney transplant recipients, as well as detailed, innovative strategies to increase transplant opportunities for patients requiring kidney transplantation.

The book is divided into two major sections; firstly, Maximizing Transplant Opportunities, and second, Considerations for Unique/High Risk Patient Populations focusing on management of select patient populations, such as children, the elderly, HIV, Hepatitis C positive patents, highly sensitized patients, and patients who develop post-transplant polyomavirus nephropathy.

Surgical topics include Laparoendoscopic Single Site and Robotic Donor Nephrectomy as minimally invasive surgical procedures to increase living donation, and the use of Paediatric Donor Kidneys in deceased donor kidney transplantation. In addition, Challenges and Controversies in Kidney Transplantation also features discussion on the most difficult clinical management issues confronting Kidney Transplantation today, making it a relevant and essential reference for nephrologists, neurologists and residents.

Key Points

Concise and comprehensive guide to problems associated with kidney transplantation
Full colour illustrations
Authored by Sandip Kapur, Professor of Surgery at Weill Medical College - Cornell University, USA

Contents:

Section 1: Maximizing Transplant Opportunities

Utilization of Marginal, Pediatric, and HCV+ Deceased Donor Organs
Advances in Minimally Invasive Techniques for Living Donor Nephrectomy
Kidney Paired Donation as a Strategy to Increase Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Ethical Issues Surrounding Opportunities to Maximize Transplantation

Section 2: Considerations for Unique Patient Populations

Considerations for the Management of Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
Considerations for the Management of Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
Considerations for the Management of HIV+ Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients
Considerations for the Management of Hepatitis C Positive Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients
Monitoring and Management of the Kidney Transplant Recipient with Pre-Existing or de novo Donor Specific Antibody
Management of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Polyomavirus Nephropathy or Viremia
Personalizing Immunosuppression Regimens for Kidney Transplant Recipients