Contents

**Preface XIII**


Wong and Wai Hon Lim

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**Section 3 Advances in Transplantation Immunology 343**

Chapter 17 **Transplantation Antigens and Histocompatibility**

Chapter 18 **CD4 T Lymphopenia, Thymic Function, Homeostatic**

**Post Kidney Transplantation 417** Rashad Hassan and Ahmed Akl

Chapter 20 **Advances in Antibody Mediated Rejection 445**

Ramirez Barba and Eduardo Guaní Guerra

Chapter 21 **Tolerance in Renal Transplantation 463**

Rebibou, Beatrice Gaugler and Didier Ducloux

Chapter 19 **Current and Future Directions in Antibody-Mediated Rejection**

Siddharth Sharma, Kimberley Oliver and David W Mudge

Marco Antonio Ayala-García, Beatriz González Yebra, Éctor Jaime

Hung Do Nguyen, Rebecca Lucy Williams, Germaine Wong and Wai

Contents **VII**

**Proliferation and Late Complications Associated with Kidney**

Philippe Saas, Jamal Bamoulid, Cecile Courivaud, Jean-Michel

Bhadran Bose, David W. Johnson and Scott B. Campbell

Chapter 16 **The Evolution of HLA-Matching in Kidney Transplantation 345**

Hon Lim

**Matching 371**

**Transplantation 391**


**Section 2 Clinical Aspects of Renal Transplantation 133**

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Chapter 7 **Kidney Transplantation Techniques 167**

Chapter 8 **Renal Aging and Kidney Transplantation 185** Katrien De Vusser and Maarten Naesens

> **Study and Literature Review 193** Thomas Rath and Stephan Ziefle

M. Ghanta, J. Dreier, R. Jacob and I. Lee

Chapter 11 **Hepatitis C Infection in Kidney Transplantion 233** A.A. Amir, R.A. Amir and S.S. Sheikh

Chapter 14 **Practical Pharmacogenetics and Single Nucleotide**

**Immunosuppressive Agents 309**

Chapter 12 **Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: The History of Surgical Techniques and Immunosuppression 249**

> **Polymorphisms (SNPs) in Renal Transplantation 287** María José Herrero, Virginia Bosó, Luis Rojas, Sergio Bea, Jaime Sánchez Plumed, Julio Hernández, Jose Luis Poveda and Salvador F.

Ana Luisa Robles Piedras, Minarda De la O Arciniega and Josefina

Chapter 15 **Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of**

Chapter 10 **Overview of Immunosuppression in Renal**

**Transplantation 205**

Jean-Paul Squifflet

Chapter 13 **Pregnancy Post Transplant 277** Rubina Naqvi

Reynoso Vázquez

Aliño

Chapter 6 **Policies and Methods to Enhance the Donation Rates 135**

Chapter 9 **Comparison of Renal Transplantation Outcomes in Patients**

Lucan Mihai, Lucan Valerian Ciprian and Iacob Gheorghiță

Farzad Kakaei, Saman Nikeghbalian and Seyed Ali Malekhosseini

**After Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodialysis – A Case Control**


Preface

gists, nurses and patients.

Mediated rejection.

Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease and until now half a million renal transplants are done by surgeons, nephrologists, immunolo‐

This open-access book covers diagnostic methods as well as clinical aspects and advances in transplantation immunology. The area covered spans from imaging methods, impact of do‐ nor factors, clinical comorbidities to recent developments in HLA-Matching and Antibody-

The authors are all experienced clinicians and scientists from different regions of the world. So, this book may help us all by giving useful information to improve care for our patients.

**Dr. med. Thomas Rath**

Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine

Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
