Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Current Issues and Future Direction in Kidney Transplantation

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Thomas Rath
Thomas Rath

Westpfalz Klinikum

Published13 February 2013

Doi10.5772/45909

ISBN978-953-51-0985-3

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-7089-1

Copyright year2013

Number of pages492

The here presented book covers different areas of clinical and scientific interest, reaching from donor evaluation to newest methods in immunological diagnostics. But also aspects of daily care of transplant recipients can be found in the carefully selected chapters. Everything driven by the aim to improve the care for all of our transplanted patients.

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1. Medical Evaluation of the Adult Kidney Transplant Candidate

By Phuong-Thu Pham, Son V. Pham, Phuong-Anh Pham and Phuong- Chi Pham

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2. Imaging in Kidney Transplantation

By Valdair Francisco Muglia, Sara Reis Teixeira, Elen Almeida Romão, Marcelo Ferreira Cassini, Murilo Ferreira de Andrade, Mery Kato, Maria Estela Papini Nardin and Silvio Tucci Jr

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3. Utility of Urinary Biomarkers in Kidney Transplant Function Assessment

By Alina Kępka, Napoleon Waszkiewicz, Sylwia Chojnowska, Beata Zalewska-Szajda, Jerzy Robert Ładny, Anna Wasilewska, Krzysztof Zwierz and Sławomir Dariusz Szajda

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4. Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Acute Renal Allograft Rejection − Special Focus on Gamma Scintigraphy and Positron Emission Tomography

By Alexander Grabner, Dominik Kentrup, Uta Schnöckel, Michael Schäfers and Stefan Reuter

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6. Policies and Methods to Enhance the Donation Rates

By Lucan Mihai, Lucan Valerian Ciprian and Iacob Gheorghița

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7. Kidney Transplantation Techniques

By Farzad Kakaei, Saman Nikeghbalian and Seyed Ali Malekhosseini

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8. Renal Aging and Kidney Transplantation

By Katrien De Vusser and Maarten Naesens

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10. Overview of Immunosuppression in Renal Transplantation

By M. Ghanta, J. Dreier, R. Jacob and I. Lee

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11. Hepatitis C Infection in Kidney Transplantion

By A.A. Amir, R.A. Amir and S.S. Sheikh

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14. Practical Pharmacogenetics and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in Renal Transplantation

By María José Herrero, Virginia Bosó, Luis Rojas, Sergio Bea, Jaime Sánchez Plumed, Julio Hernández, Jose Luis Poveda and Salvador F. Aliño

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15. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Immunosuppressive Agents

By Ana Luisa Robles Piedras, Minarda De la O Arciniega and Josefina Reynoso Vázquez

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16. The Evolution of HLA-Matching in Kidney Transplantation

By Hung Do Nguyen, Rebecca Lucy Williams, Germaine Wong and Wai Hon Lim

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17. Transplantation Antigens and Histocompatibility Matching

By Bhadran Bose, David W. Johnson and Scott B. Campbell

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18. CD4 T Lymphopenia, Thymic Function, Homeostatic Proliferation and Late Complications Associated with Kidney Transplantation

By Philippe Saas, Jamal Bamoulid, Cecile Courivaud, Jean-Michel Rebibou, Beatrice Gaugler and Didier Ducloux

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20. Advances in Antibody Mediated Rejection

By Siddharth Sharma, Kimberley Oliver and David W Mudge

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21. Tolerance in Renal Transplantation

By Marco Antonio Ayala-García, Beatriz González Yebra, Éctor Jaime Ramirez Barba and Eduardo Guaní Guerra

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