Long-term Care of Kidney Transplant Patients

Long-Term Care of Kidney Transplant Patients provides details on topics relevant to kidney transplant including current survival rates, phases following kidney transplantation, transplant wellness, current immunosuppressive management, and alloimmune injuries such as early and late T-cell- and antibody-mediated rejections. Various nonalloimmune factors such as post-transplant infections, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers are discussed in special chapters. Chapters are dedicated to psychological and social factors influencing kidney transplant, followed by special chapters on pediatric kidney transplantation and multiorgan transplantation. The final chapter addresses transplant tolerance, and the conclusion summarizes all chapters and highlights potential novel advances that might become game changers in the kidney transplant field.

This comprehensive book is a valuable resource for clinical transplant physicians and surgeons, nephrologists, primary care physicians, as well as other healthcare specialists involved in the care of kidney transplant patients such as cardiologists and critical care physicians. It also benefits other healthcare providers such as pharmacists, psychologists, advanced nurse practitioners, pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies, and agencies involved in kidney transplantation.

• A valuable resource for all clinical transplant physicians and surgeons, primary care physicians, and various specialists who are caring for kidney transplant patients
• Many of the chapters highlight unmet needs relevant to certain post-transplant events that influence survival
• Provides clinicians and researchers with opportunities to investigate and advance the science by performing studies than can alter the trajectory of specific post-transplant diseases which will improve long-term kidney survival further until we achieve “Transplant Tolerance”
• Features chapter contributions from renowned doctors and professors of medicine from all over the world

Chapter 1. Preface
Sundaram Hariharan
Chapter 2. Long-term Survival After Kidney Transplantation
Brahm Vasudev and Sundaram Hariharan
Chapter 3. Kidney Transplantation with Transplant Phases
Chethan M Puttarajappa and Sumit Mohan
Chapter 4. Wellness after Kidney Transplantation
Christine M Wu and Mona Doshi
Chapter 5. Immunosuppression After Kidney Transplantation
Aravind Cherukuri and Richard Baker
Chapter 6. Immunological and Nonimmunological Factors Affecting Kidney Transplant Outcome
Puneet Sood and John Gill
Chapter 7. Short-term and Late T-cell Mediated Rejection
Rajil B Mehta and Maarten Naesens
Chapter 8. Short-term and Late Antibody Mediated Rejection after Kidney Transplantation
Carrie Schinstock and Marta Crespo
Chapter 9. Cardiovascular Disease and Metabolic Complications after kidney transplantation
Chein-Jung Lin, Krista Lentine and Adnan Sharif
Chapter 10. Late Post-transplant Infections
George T John and Rajiv Khanna
Chapter 11. Cancers after Kidney Transplantation
Nida Saleem, Germaine Wong, and Jeremy Chapman
Chapter 12. Recurrent and De novo Diseases after Transplantation
C Coorey and Steve Chadban
Chapter 13. Psychological and Behavior Aspects after Kidney Transplantation
Jennifer Steel and Daniel Cukor
Chapter 14. Social Determinants Impacting Transplant Outcome
Akhil Sharma and Alison Hart
Chapter 15. Simultaneous Kidney with Liver Transplantation
Michele Molinari and Ty Dunn
Chapter 16. Simultaneous Kidney with Pancreas Transplantation
Ty Dunn and M Molinari
Chapter 17. Transplantation in Children
Raja Dandamudi, Britta Hocker and Vikas Dharnidharka
Chapter 18. Management of patients with failing kidney and failed kidney Transplantation
Sandesh Parajuli and Gaurav Gupta
Chapter 19. Tolerance after Kidney Transplantation
Natasha M Rogers and Angus W Thomson
Chapter 20. Conclusion
Hamid Rabb