| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 481 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
History of transplantation / Ji Fronk and Iain A.M. MacPhee -- Assessment of the potential renal transplant recipient / Alan G. Jardine and Patrick B Mark -- Pre-transplant assessment and medical evaluation of potential live kidney donors / Jonas Wadstrm -- Histocompatibility and immunogenetics / Susan V. Fuggle and Craig J. Taylor -- Donor management : the care of the heart beating brain dead multi-organ donor / Paul G. Murphy -- Deceased donor retrieval / Albert M. Wolthuis [and others] -- Live donor nephrectomy / Ji Fronk and Nicos Kessaris -- Organisation of transplant services, organ sharing, and organ allocation : a perspective from the UK and Eurotransplant / James Neuberger and Axel Rahmel -- Deceased donor kidney transplantation / Luisa Berardinelli -- Living donor kidney transplantation / Ji Fronk -- Pancreas transplantation / Guido Woeste and Wolf O. Bechstein -- Pancreatic islet transplantation / Frantisek Saudek -- Anaesthesia for renal transplantation / Nicoletta Fossati -- Anaesthesia for pancreatic transplantation / Kai Zacharowski and Hans-Joachim Wilke -- Anaesthesia for live donor nephrectomy / Rehana Iqbal -- Immunosuppression / Iain A.M. MacPhee and Teun van Gelder -- Antibody removal / Nicos Kessaris and Nizam Mamode -- Paediatric transplantation / Luisa Berardinelli and Luciana Ghio -- Post-transplant diagnostic imaging / Lakshmi Ratnam and Uday Patel -- Transplant histopathology / Eva Honsova -- Infection / Rachel Hilton and Martin W. Drage -- Management during the first three months after transplantation / Iain A.M. MacPhee, Joyce Popoola, and Daniel Jones -- Management of long-term complications / Paul N. Harden [and others] -- Living donor follow-up / Ji Fronk and Robert Elias -- Ethics of transplantation / Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal |
| Summary |
"This book is designed to fill the need for a contemporary handbook for the practice of renal and pancreatic transplantation that is focussed on a European rather than North American approach. There are significant differences in transplant practice internationally and there is a need for a practical guide to application of the current evidence base"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kidneys -- Transplantation.
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Pancreas -- Transplantation.
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Kidney Transplantation.
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Pancreas Transplantation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fronek, Jiri, 1970-
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MacPhee, Iain A. M.
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| ISBN |
1118305299 (electronic bk.) |
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1118305302 (e-book) |
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1280585854 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781118305294 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118305300 (e-book) |
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9781280585852 (MyiLibrary) |
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(Paper) |
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