Contemporary Kidney Transplantation, m. 1 Buch, m. 1 E-Book

Section 1.  History of kidney transplantation     

Section 2. Recipient Selection       

1. Indications and contraindications2. Evaluation and selection3. Special considerations in highly sensitized candidates4. Waitlist maintenance

Section 3. Donor Selection

1. Living donora. Evaluationb. Selection2. Deceased donora. History of brain death and donation after cardiac death donors b. Evaluation and managementc. Selectioni. Heart beating deceased donors1. Standard criteria donors2. Extended criteria donorsii. Donation after cardiac deathiii. Specific donor issues and considerations1. HBsAg, HBcAb+,  HCV donors2. CDC high risk donors3. Donors on ECMO

Section 4. Surgical Technique

1. Organ preservation and preparation Surgeona. Historyb. Organ preservation solutionsc. Kidney graft biopsy findingsd. Static storage versus machine perfusion pumpi. Machine perfusion equipment  ii. Pump parameterse. Kidney graft back table preparationi. Short renal veinii. Multiple arteries or veinsiii. Other anatomic variants

2. Recipient kidney transplantation surgical technique   a. The standard tec

hnique     b. Technical considerations in recipients with extensive atherosclerosis  i. Endarterectomyii. Renal artery onto vascular graftsc. Venous sclerosis and alternate locationsd. Urinary tract anomalies (neurogenic bladder)e. Special considerations: Robotic recipient kidney transplantation



3. Live donor nephrectomya. History and important trends.b. Open donor nephrectomy. i.  Operative Techniqueii. Common complicationsc. Laparoscopic donor nephrectomyi. Operative Techniquesii. Common complicationsd. Robotic laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, SILS, and alternate extractions site laparoscopic donor nephrectomy4. Kidney Transplantation with other organs.a. Special technical concerns---Pancreas kidney transplantationb. Others: liver, heart, small bowel

Section 4.  Anesthesia

Carlo Gerardo Ramirez, MD, FACS Jefferson University Physician Academic Title: Associate Professor Director, Lankenau Kidney Transplant Program Dr. Ramirez has vast experience in kidney and liver transplant surgery. He earned his medical degree at the University of Philippines and completed his internship and residency at Philippines General Hospital. Dr. Ramirez completed a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he received extensive training in adult and pediatric abdominal transplant surgery at the Thomas Starzl Transplantation Institute. An associate professor at Jefferson Medical College, he has authored more than 90 articles and abstracts on transplantation and serves as Director of the Transplant Fellowship Program at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Ramirez is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Association for Academic Surgery, the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the International Liver Transplant Society, the Transplantation Society and the American Society of Transplantation.