Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation

Despite significant accomplishments to date, kidney transplantation is a relatively young field in medicine. Due to the armamentarium of agents available to effectively suppress the immune system, the past decade has seen a shift in focus from prevention of rejection to a focus on extending the life...

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description Despite significant accomplishments to date, kidney transplantation is a relatively young field in medicine. Due to the armamentarium of agents available to effectively suppress the immune system, the past decade has seen a shift in focus from prevention of rejection to a focus on extending the life of the allograft and novel strategies to increase the organ donor pool. This book covers basic concepts in kidney transplantation while also addressing ways to manage kidney transplant recipients in order to maximize patient and graft survival. In addition, novel concepts to increase organ availability are addressed, including kidney paired donation and single site laparoendoscopic donor nephrectomy for living donor kidney transplantation, and utilization of marginal, hepatitis C positive, and older donor organs to increase deceased donor transplant opportunities.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-663332024-03-31T22:44:40Z Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation Kapur, Sandip Afaneh, Cheguevara Aull, Meredith J. Urology & urogenital medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJS Urology and urogenital medicine Despite significant accomplishments to date, kidney transplantation is a relatively young field in medicine. Due to the armamentarium of agents available to effectively suppress the immune system, the past decade has seen a shift in focus from prevention of rejection to a focus on extending the life of the allograft and novel strategies to increase the organ donor pool. This book covers basic concepts in kidney transplantation while also addressing ways to manage kidney transplant recipients in order to maximize patient and graft survival. In addition, novel concepts to increase organ availability are addressed, including kidney paired donation and single site laparoendoscopic donor nephrectomy for living donor kidney transplantation, and utilization of marginal, hepatitis C positive, and older donor organs to increase deceased donor transplant opportunities. 2021-04-20T15:40:23Z 2021-04-20T15:40:23Z 2012 book ONIX_20210420_9789535109006_1691 9789535109006 9789535170525 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/66333 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/2676/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/3048 10.5772/3048 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9789535109006 9789535170525 IntechOpen 330 open access
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Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation
title Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation
title_full Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation
title_fullStr Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation
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title_short Current Concepts in Kidney Transplantation
title_sort current concepts in kidney transplantation
topic Urology & urogenital medicine
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