**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® with "Essential Purchase" designation in Transplantation Surgery**A must-have resource for all members of the transplant team, Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 9th Edition, provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on every aspect of this complex field. Drs. Stuart J. Knechtle and Lorna P. Marson, along with a global team of internationally renowned surgeons and nephrologists, offer balanced coverage of both surgical techniques and medical considerations related to kidney transplantation. With updates from cover to cover, this core reference delivers the practical guidance you need to achieve optimal outcomes in both adults and children. Offers state-of-the-art coverage of all areas of kidney transplantation such as preservation of kidneys; mechanisms of rejection and the induction of tolerance; techniques of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy; and immunosuppressionContains up-to-date outcomes data and analysis of the evidence supporting current practice in the fieldIncludes new chapters on xenotransplantation and COVID-19 in renal transplantationAdds new information on normothermic regional perfusion to the discussion of DCD organ donation and ethics of transplantation, and new information on iBox (the first universal algorithm for predicting the risk of kidney transplant loss) to the biomarkers sectionProvides relevant, up-to-date information on kidney transplant for all members of the transplant team, with practical information on applied science, clinical information, and surgical proceduresFeatures intraoperative videos and hundreds of superb illustrations to help readers visualize key concepts and nuances of renal transplantationCovers each major immunosuppressive drug in individual chapters, and provides a reference list of all randomized trials for convenient access to critical informationAn eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and refer
