Transplantation Pathology

by Edited by Phillip Ruiz

• ISBN13: 9780521879958
• ISBN10: 0521879957
• Edition: CD
• Format: Multimedia
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Transplantation Pathology is a specialized textbook that comprehensively covers the pathological features of all organs transplanted in clinical practice. It discusses the complications affecting transplants with a clinicopathological correlation to all processes. In addition to extensive detail of morphological changes, numerous images, and the latest classification schemes, it incorporates the basis pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in the detrimental processes affecting the host and graft. Chapters address the immunopathology of graft rejection, lab medicine and transplantation, dermatological complications in transplantation, and PTLD. This book by renowned authors in the field provides the pathologist, clinician, clinical staff, and student a complete overview of the pathological processes and underlying mechanisms of all areas of transplantation.

Table of Contents

Immunopathology of organ transplantation

Dermatological complications in transplant patients and composite tissue allotransplant

Pathology of renal transplantation Volker Nickeleit

Liver transplantation pathology Anthony Demetris

Pathology of cardiac transplantation

Lung transplantation pathology

Pancreas transplantation pathology

The pathology of intestinal and multivisceral transplantation

Pathology of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Pathology and pathogenesis of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders

Laboratory medicine in transplantation

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