Beschreibung:
Kidney Transplantation, Bioengineering, and Regeneration: Kidney Transplantation in the Regenerative Medicine Era investigates how the field of regenerative medicine is changing the traditional premises of solid organ transplantation, specifically within the field of kidney transplantation. In Section 1, chapters illustrate the state of the art in kidney transplantation as well as the research behind the bioengineering and regeneration of kidney organoids for therapeutic renal replacement.
PART I: Kidney Transplantation Section I: Epidemiology of kidney disease and transplantation Section II: Donor selection and allocation Section III: Kidney preservation and transplant procedures Section IV: Kidney recipients and transplant Section V: Transplantation immunology and immunomodulation Section VI: Graft monitoring tools Section VII: Post-transplant immune events Section VIII: Early and late complications Section IX: Long-term outcomes Section X: Transplant issues and specific patients Section XI: Ethics and costs Section XII: Unmet needs