Handbook of renal and pancreatic transplantation [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Iain A.M. MacPhee, Jiří Froněk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141284103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester [England], : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• ISBN: 1-118-30532-9; 1-280-58585-4; 9786613615688; 1-118-30529-9; 1-118-30530-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MacPheeIain A. M; FronekJiri <1970->
• Disciplina: 617.4/610592
• Soggetti: Kidneys - Transplantation; Pancreas - Transplantation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- Living donor follow-up / Ji Fronk and Robert Elias -- Ethics of transplantation / Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is designed to fill the need for a contemporaryhandbook for the practice of renal and pancreatic transplantation thatis focussed on a European rather than North American approach.There are significant differences in transplant practice internationally andthere is a need for a practical guide to application of the current evidencebase.