Beschreibung
This book covers all the protocols of pediatric solid organ transplantation in a practical format. It includes detailed protocols of managing a child during pre and post-transplant namely liver, kidney, heart, intestine and pancreas. Chapters include algorithms, figures and protocols in tabulated format. It also provides essential information on anatomy and physiology of relevant topics. The editors and authors are leading experts in the field from across the world. The book is edited by mentors of pediatric transplant sessions at multiple avenues across the world and thus can be promoted by them, since it incorporates all the latest protocols. This practical book serves as a useful and step-by-step guide for pediatricians, nephrologists, intensivists and transplant physicians.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Ron Shapiro is the Surgical Director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program at Mount Sinai's Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, New York, USA. Dr. Shapiro, a leading surgeon with more than 30 years of experience in the field of transplantation, trained at the University of Pittsburgh under Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, a transplant pioneer. Prior to returning to Mount Sinai, Dr. Shapiro was a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and the Robert J. Corry Chair in Transplantation Surgery at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, USA. After 26 years with the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Shapiro left his endowed chair in Pittsburgh to return to The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he had completed his internship and residency. Dr. Shapiro graduated with his medical degree from the Stanford School of Medicine. He is board certified in surgery with special expertise in renal transplant and pancreas transplantation. He is also Secretary of the Transplantation Society, and former president of the International Pediatric Transplantation Association (until March 2015). He is also on the editorial boards of Pediatric Transplantation, and is Editor in Chief of Clinical Transplantation. Dr. Shapiro has co-authored four books: Atlas of Organ Transplantation, Renal Transplantation, Pancreatic Transplantation and Living Donor Organ Transplantation. He has published more than 440 articles, and 75 book chapters, and has given more than 560 lectures. Dr. Shapiro has been repeatedly named by Castle Connolly, Ltd. as one of "America's Top Doctors." Dr. Minnie Sarwal is Medical Director of the Kidney Pancreas Transplant Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Professor in Residence in Surgery, with courtesy appointments in Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF. She is the Director of the Precision Transplant Lab, an NIH and Chan Zuckerberg funded translational lab. She has an Adjunct appointment at the University of Berkeley as a Capstone mentor of the Masters in Translational Medicine Dr. Sarwal is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University where she was Medical Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant program, and Professor in Pediatrics, Immunology and Surgery. Dr. Sarwal's research interests include clinical trials, bioinformatics, translational immunogenetics, genomics, and proteomics. Dr Sarwal received her M.D. from India, completed her residency in the UK, and a fellowship in pediatric and adult nephrology at Guy's Hospital, London, UK. She holds a PhD in molecular genetics from Cambridge University (Christ's College), under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner; a diploma in child health from London, UK; membership of the Royal College of Physicians and elected fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. Dr. Sarwal is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of renal and transplant translational medicine and immunology. She has founded multiple companies, spun out of academia and IP generated in her lab, with an emphasis of personalized diagnostics in transplant medicine. Dr Sarwal has been an Asian-American and Women's Mentor at Stanford University, is a Capstone mentor of the Masters in Translational Medicine program at Haas/Berkeley and UCSF, and currently the Senior Treasurer of The Transplantation Society. She is the Chief Editor of Frontiers in Nephrology and associate editor for Clinical Transplantation. Dr Sarwal has been the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, inclusive of the NKF Cuneo Richardson Award for Scientific Excellence and the TTS-Roche Award for Outstanding Transplant Research. Dr. Sarwal serves on the FDA Science Board, NIH study sections and Chairs the Congressionally Directed Research Tissue/Transplant Program for the Department of Defense. Dr. Rupesh Raina is an Adult-
