Medical Management of Kidney Transplantation offers authoritative, evidence-based guidelines on the full range of dilemmas in the medical management of kidney transplant recipients before, during, and after transplantation. .

Contents

Pre-Transplantation

1. Graft and Patient Survival
2. Detection of Recipient Pretransplant Alloreactivity
3. Recipient Evaluation
4. Waiting Lis Management
5. Approach to the Highly Sensitized Patient
6. Renal Allograft Preservation

Transplantation

7. Intial Hospitalization Care
8. Surgical Issues in the Transplant Recipient
9. Extracorporeal Blood Purification: Applications in the Renal Transplant Patient
10. Immunosuppression
11. The Road to Transplantation Tolerance

Post-Transplantation

12. Evaluation and Treatment of Graft Dysfunction
13. Recurrent and De Novo Diseases after Renal Transplantation
14. Kidney Transplantation in Children
15. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Issues in Kidney Transplantation
16. Pregancy and Gender Issues in the Renal Transplant Recipient
17. The Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients
18. Dyslipidemia or Hyperlipidemia after Solid Organ Transplantation
19. Hypertension after Transplantation
20. Evaluation and Management of Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus
21. Hematologic Complications of Transplantation
22. Posttransplantation Liver Disease
23. Management of Transplantation Renal Bone Disease: Interplay of Bone Mineral Density and Decisions Regarding Bisphosphonate Use
24. Malignancies after Transplantation and Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders
25. Approaching the Renal Transplant with Deterioriating Function: Progressive Loss of Renal Function in Not Inevitable
26. Bacterial Infections in the Renal Transplant Recipient
27. Non-CMV, Non-hepatitis Viral Infections in the Renal Transplant Patient
28. Cytomegalovirus in Renal Transplantation
29. Fungal Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients
30. Erectile Dysfunction and Other Urological Issues in the Transplant
31. Pathology of Kidney Allografts
32. Imaging of the Renal Transplant Recipient
33. Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
34. Drug-Drug Interactions and Most Commonly Used Drugs in Renal Transplant Recipients
35. Medical Complications of the Eyes, Nasopharnex, Dentition, Oropharynx, and Hearing in the Kidney Transplant Recipient

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