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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138158303321

Titolo

After the kidney transplant : the patients and their allograft / / edited by Jorge Ortiz and Jason Andre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen, 2011

[Place of publication not identified] : , : IntechOpen, , 2011

ISBN

953-51-6447-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 pages)

Disciplina

617.7

Soggetti

Kidney Transplantation

Ophthalmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

There are many obstacles in kidney transplantation. For the transplant team, there is the balance between immunosuppression to aid in the recipient's tolerance of the allograft and the infection risk of a suppressed immune system. These potential long term complications of kidney transplantation are relatively well known, but there are many other complications that patients and families do not consider when preparing themselves for a kidney transplant. Although the benefits of attempting a kidney transplant far outweigh downfalls of the long term sequelae, kidney transplantation is by no means a benign procedure. It is the hope of these authors that the reader will leave with a sense of understanding towards the kidney recipients.