**Meet the editor**

Dr. Thomas Rath completed his Internal Residency at Westpfalz-Klinikum in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1998. Afterwards he gained the certified speciality of Nephrology which was followed by the additional certification for Infectiology. In 1998 he joined the Transplant Team in Kaiserslautern, where he became Senior Physician of the Department. Since 2006 he is Head of the Department

of Nephrology and Transplantation in Kaiserslautern with more than 1000 renal transplants since its official approval. He is also responsible for the Outpatient Clinics for Infectious Diseases at the Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern. Dr. Rath is member of different international and national medical societies. He gives lectures at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern about "impaired function of human organs and artificial organ support".

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Candidate 3**

**Assessment 61**

**Tomography 89**

Schäfers and Stefan Reuter

Wong and Wai Hon Lim

Chi Pham

**Section 1 Diagnostic Methods in Renal Transplantation 1**

Chapter 1 **Medical Evaluation of the Adult Kidney Transplant**

Maria Estela Papini Nardin and Silvio Tucci Jr

Zwierz and Sławomir Dariusz Szajda

Chapter 3 **Utility of Urinary Biomarkers in Kidney Transplant Function**

Chapter 4 **Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Acute Renal Allograft Rejection −**

Chapter 5 **Detection of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney**

**Kidney Transplant Recipients 105**

Chapter 2 **Imaging in Kidney Transplantation 25**

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

Valdair Francisco Muglia, Sara Reis Teixeira, Elen Almeida Romão, Marcelo Ferreira Cassini, Murilo Ferreira de Andrade, Mery Kato,

Alina Kępka, Napoleon Waszkiewicz, Sylwia Chojnowska, Beata Zalewska-Szajda, Jerzy Robert Ładny, Anna Wasilewska, Krzysztof

**Special Focus on Gamma Scintigraphy and Positron Emission**

Alexander Grabner, Dominik Kentrup, Uta Schnöckel, Michael

**Transplantation and the Management of Highly Sensitised**

Shyam Dheda, Siew Chong, Rebecca Lucy Williams, Germaine
