"Current Issues and Future Direction in Kidney Transplantation" ed. by Thomas Rath

This 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.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Diagnostic Methods in Renal Transplantation
1 Medical Evaluation of the Adult Kidney Transplant Candidate
2 Imaging in Kidney Transplantation
3 Utility of Urinary Biomarkers in Kidney Transplant Function Assessment
4 Non-lnvasive Diagnosis of Acute Renal Allograft Rejection - Special Focus on Gamma Scintigraphy and Positron Emission Tomography
5 Detection of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation and the Management of Highly Sensitised Kidney Transplant Recipients
Section 2 Clinical Aspects of Renal Transplantation
6 Policies and Methods to Enhance the Donation Rates
7 Kidney Transplantation Techniques
8 Renal Aging and Kidney Transplantation
9 Comparison of Renal Transplantation Outcomes in Patients After Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodialysis - A Case Control Study and Literature Review
10 Overview of Immunosuppression in Renal Transplantation
11 Hepatitis C Infection in Kidney Transplantion
12 Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: The History of Surgical Techniques and Immunosuppression
13 Pregnancy Post Transplant
14 Practical Pharmacogenetics and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in Renal Transplantation
15 Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Immunosuppressive Agents
Section 3 Advances in Transplantation Immunology
16 The Evolution of HLA-Matching in Kidney Transplantation
17 Transplantation Antigens and Histocompatibility Matching
18 CD4 T Lymphopenia, Thymic Function, Homeostatic Proliferation and Late Complications Associated with Kidney Transplantation
19 Current and Future Directions in Antibody-Mediated Rejection Post Kidney Transplantation
20 Advances in Antibody Mediated Rejection
21 Tolerance in Renal Transplantation