Pancreatic Transplantation describes short- and long-term outcomes, as well as provides authoritative chapters on patient evaluation, donor management, and recipient care; surgical procedures; and strategies for complication avoidance and control.

Features:

• Explores the latest research discoveries, surgical techniques, and currently available immunosuppressive drugs
• Reviews the safety, efficacy, and indications for pancreas transplantation for patients with diabetes
• Offers guidelines to assist in the prevention and treatment of rejection in transplant recipients
• Spans issues related to the assessment of potential recipients, technical aspects of organ recovery, and disease pathology
• Strives to improve long-term graft outcomes and patient survival

Contents

1. Outcomes after Pancreatic Transplantation
2. The Effect of Pancreatic Transplantation on Secondary Complications of Diabetes
3. The History of Pancreas Transplantation
4. Evaluation of the pancreas Transplant Recipient
5. Technical Aspects of Pancreatic Recovery.
6. Live Donor Pancreas Transplantation
7. Anesthetic Management in Kidney-Pancreas and Isolated Pancreatic Transplantation
8. Technical Aspects of Pancreas Transplantation
9. Medical Management After Pancreas Transplantation
10. Immunobiology of Allograft Rejection
11. Immunosuppressive Agents In Pancreatic Transplantation
12. Immunosuppression for Pancreas Transplantation
13. Pancreas Transplant Rejection
14. Pathologic Aspects
15. Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy In Kidney And Pancreas Transplantation
16. Surgical Complications After Pancreatic Transplantation
17. Medical Complications Following Pancreas Transplantation
18. Infectious Complications In Pancreas Transplant Recipients
19. Malignancy After Pancreas Transplantation
20. Neurologic Complications of Pancreas Transplantation
21. Radiology Aspects
22. Islet Cell Transplantation
23. New Approaches to Pig-To-Man Islet Transplantation
24. Pregnancy After Pancreas Transplantation
25. The Role of the Transplant Coordinator
26. Pancreas Transplantation: The University Of Wisconsin Experience
27. Experience with Portal-enteric Pancreas Transplantation at the University of Tennessee Memphis
28. Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation At The Ohio State University
29. Pancreatic Transplantation at the University of Maryland
30. The Northwestern University Experience in Pancreas Transplantation
31. Pancreas Transplantation at Indiana University: A Brief Overview of Recent ProgressThe Stockholm Experience
32. Pancreas Transplantation at the University of Louvain Saint Luc Hospital in Brussels (Belgium) and the EUROSPK Trial
33. "Retroperitoneal Pancreas Transplantation with Portal-Enteric Drainage

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