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This volume in the
Diagnostic Pathology series is an
ideal point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering the full range of solid organ transplantation (SOT) of the kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, intestine, and more, it provides a current understanding of transplant immunology and pathology to help ensure accurate diagnosis for optimal clinical management.
Richly illustrated and easy to use,
Diagnostic Pathology: Transplant Pathology, third edition, is a visually stunning, one-stop reference for practicing pathologists, transplant practitioners, and students of organ transplantation.
- Covers all areas of transplant pathology, incorporating the collective knowledge and experience from a team of transplant pathology experts with the latest updates from the 2022 Banff classification
- Groups content by specific organ transplant, including kidney, liver, heart, lung, intestine, pancreas, and vascularized composite allotransplantation
- Features sweeping updates throughout, including new chapters on transplant immunology that cover chronic viral infections and the immune response, immune manipulation and accommodation, and graft-vs.-host disease
- Contains a new chapter on islet cell transplantation and new, detailed information on xenotransplantation-specifically kidney xenograft
- Covers advances in vascularized composite allografts (hands, face, uterus, phallus) transplantation
- Features nearly 1,600 superb print and online images, including histology and gross pathology images, full-color illustrations, and radiologic images
- Employs consistently templated chapters, bulleted content, key facts, annotated images, and an extensive index for quick, expert reference at the point of care
- Includes an eBook version that enables you to access all text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
List of contents
SECTION 1: IMMUNOLOGY
SECTION2: HLA TESTING
SECTION 3: IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE DRUGS
SECTION 4: KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 5: LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 6: HEART TRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 7: LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 8: INTESTINAL TRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 9: PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 10: VASCULARIZED COMPOSITE ALLOTRANSPLANTATION
SECTION 11: POSTTRANSPLANT NEOPLASTIC DISORDERS
About the author
Anthony Chang, MD, is a Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago with a specialty in renal pathology. His research interests include the role of B and plasma cells in lupus nephritis and transplant rejection. He is past president of the Renal Pathology Society (2017) and Chicago Pathology Society (2011-2013). He has taught more than 30 educational courses at the annual meetings for the American Society Clinical Pathology, College of American Pathologists, US & Canadian Academy of Pathology, American Society of Nephrology, American College of Rheumatology, and American Urological Association.
