Handbook of Renal Transplantation

Description

The Handbook of Renal Transplantation in Developing Countries, part of the Oxford Clinical Practice Series, is a comprehensive handbook for nephrologists, physicians, transplant surgeons, nephrology trainees and dieticians as well as medical students.

Developing countries with limited resources face innumerable challenges in providing kidney transplantation to those with chronic kidney diseases. There is an absolute shortage of transplantable organs in developing countries, despite the availability of technical skills. However, institutions providing both live and deceased donor transplantation are steadily increasing in number. Yet, there is a critical gap in the knowledge on the selection process, clinical assessment, immunology workup, transplant surgery, immunosuppressive therapy, and diagnosis of allograft dysfunction and infections. This book attempts to bridge this gap by assimilating and organizing relevant information, pairing the science of transplantation with clinical practice from doctors and specialists in their respective fields.

Table of contents

Handbook of Liver Transplantation: Table of Contents
Foreword Samiran Nundy
Introduction Anand Ramamurthy
1. Structuring a Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Program Anand K Khakhar
2. Indications, Scoring Systems, Organ Allocation Vinay Kumaran
3. Management of common issues in patients with end-stage liver disease
i. Ascites Murugan Natarajan
ii. Bleeding Murugan Natarajan
iii. Encephalopathy Murugan Natarajan
iv. Renal Dysfunction Murugan Natarajan
v. Alcoholic Hepatitis Murugan Natarajan
vi. Viral Hepatitis Christopher K Opio
4. Multidisciplinary evaluation & perioperative care of the potential liver transplant recipient
i. Cardiac Rajeshwari Nayak
ii. Pulmonary Babu Abraham
a) Pulmonary conditions associated with end-stage liver disease
b) Preoperative evaluation
iii. Infectious Disease Ram Gopalakrishnan
a) Preoperative evaluation
b) Perioperative management
iv. Psychiatry Bharathi Visveswaran
v. Physiotherapy Ilancheziyan K
vi. Nutrition Daphnee D.K.
vii. Radiology Rochita Venkataramanan
5. Evaluation of the Liver Transplant Donor
i. Deceased Donor: Identification & Management Anita Cherian
ii. Live Donor Evaluation Neerav Goyal
6. Special Considerations in Transplantation:
i. Acute Liver Failure Sudheendran S
ii. Hepatocellular carcinoma and Liver Transplantation Arvinder S Soin
iii. Pediatric Transplantation Mohamed Rela
iv. ABO Incompatible Transplantation Sudheendran S
v. Marginal Grafts and Optimization Peter Friend
7. The Transplant Operation:
A. Liver Transplant Anaesthesia Vasantharoopan CS
B. Recipient Operation Manish C Varma
C. Surgical Techniques
i. Arterial Anastomosis Vinay Kumaran
ii. Biliary Anastomosis Vivek Vij
iii. Graft Inflow Modulation Sanjay S Negi