Transplantation pathology
By: edited by Phillip Ruiz.
Contributors: Ruiz, Phillip, 1954-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521879958
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Complications; Transplantation immunology; Transplantation -- pathology
Description: This specialized textbook that comprehensively covers the pathological features of all organs transplanted in clinical practice. In addition to extensive detail of morphological changes, numerous images, and the latest classification schemes, this book incorporates basis pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in the detrimental processes affecting the host and graft. Finally, there are also specialized chapters addressing the immunopathology of graft rejection, lab medicine and transplantation, dermatological complications in transplantation, and PTLD.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immunopathology of organ transplantation / James M. Mathew and Phillip Ruiz; title: Dermatological complications in transplant patients and composite tissue allotransplant / Emma L. Lanuti ... [et al.]; title: Pathology of kidney transplantation / Volker Nickeleit; title: Histopathology of liver transplantation / A.J. Demetris ... [et al.]; title: Pathology of cardiac transplantation / Chi K. Lai ... [et al.]; title: Lung transplantation pathology / Dani S. Zander; title: Pancreas transplantation pathology / Cinthia B. Drachenberg and John C. Papadimitriou; title: The pathology of intestinal and multivisceral transplantation / Phillip Ruiz, Andreas Tzakis, and Hidenori Takahashi; title: Pathology of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Gary Kleiner, Michael Kritzer-Cheren, and Phillip Ruiz; title: Pathology and pathogenesis of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders / Lawrence Tsao, Eric D. Hsi, Izidore S. Lossos; title: Laboratory medicine in transplantation / Phillip Ruiz ... [et al.].