Full Description
This specialist volume is the first English-language textbook to present a comprehensive view of the sonographic aspects of abdominal transplantation, from pre-assessment of the patient to examination during the peri-operative period and on through follow up. Extensively illustrated, the text gives in-depth treatment to the color doppler techniques critical in modern practice as well as other imaging modalities useful in the transplantation of the kidneys, pancreas and small bowel. Transplant physicians and surgeons, along with those radiologists and sonographers involved in the assessment of transplant patients, will find this book an invaluable practical reference.
Contents
1. Introduction Historical Introduction: the Impact of Imaging on Transplantation 2. Renal Transplantation Chronic Renal Failure and Pre transplant assessment Renal Transplant Surgery Ultrasound Imaging in Renal Transplantation The Paediatric Renal Transplant Intervention and the Transplant Kidney 3. Liver Transplantation Chronic liver diseases: indications for liver transplantation. Liver transplantation - surgical techniques Ultrasound assessment of the liver transplant candidate Early post-operative liver transplant ultrasound Long term ultrasound follow up of liver transplantation Interventional Radiology in Liver Transplantation 4. Multi-visceral Transplantation Pancreas Transplantation Small Bowel and Multi-visceral Transplantation
