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Short description Organ transplantation is now an established treatment for patients with organ failure. Transplantation is taught on all medical student curricula and is part of specialty training in medicine and surgery. In addition nursing staff spend time on transplant wards during their training and pharmacists both in hospital and outside deal with transplant patients and immunosuppressants regularly. Transplantation at a Glance provides a succinct overview of both the scientific and clinical principles of organ transplantation which will appeal to this wide-ranging market.
From the contents Preface 7
List of abbreviations 8
1 History of transplantation 10
Organ donors
2 Diagnosis of death and its physiology 12
3 Deceased organ donation 14
4 Live donor kidney transplantation 16
5 Live donor liver transplantation 18
Organ preservation
6 Organ preservation 20
Immunology of organ transplantation
7 Innate immunity 22
8 Adaptive immunity and antigen presentation 24
9 Humoral and cellular immunity 26
Histocompatibility in transplantation
10 Tissue typing and HLA matching 28
11 Detecting HLA antibodies 30
12 Antibody-incompatible transplantation 32
Organ allocation
13 Organ allocation 34
Immunosuppression
14 Immunosuppression: induction vs maintenance 36
15 Biological agents 37
16 T cell-targeted immunosuppression 38
Complications of immunosuppression
17 Side effects of immunosuppressive agents 40
18 Post-transplant infection 42
19 CMV infection 44
20 Post-transplant malignancy 46
Kidney transplantation
21 End-stage renal failure 48
22 Complications of ESRF 50
23 Dialysis and its complications 52
24 Assessment for kidney transplantion 54
25 Kidney transplantation: the operation 56
26 Surgical complications of kidney transplantation 58
