Kidney Transplantation, Bioengineering, and Regeneration: Kidney Transplantation in the Regenerative Medicine Era investigates how the field of regenerative medicine is changing the traditional premises of solid organ transplantation, specifically within the field of kidney transplantation. In Section 1, chapters illustrate the state of the art in kidney transplantation as well as the research behind the bioengineering and regeneration of kidney organoids for therapeutic renal replacement.
In Section II, chapters catalog the technologies that are being developed and the methods that are being implemented to bioengineer or regenerate kidneys in order to restore function, while critically highlighting those technological advances which hold the most promise. The book thus encompasses clinical renal transplantation, tissue engineering, biomaterial sciences, stem cell biology, and developmental biology, as they are all applied to the kidney.
Key Features
Focuses on the synergy between renal organ transplantation and regenerative medicine, highlighting the advances within transplantation, bioengineering, regeneration, and repair
Educates the transplant community on important regenerative medicine research pertinent to kidney transplantation
Develops a shared language for clinicians, surgeons, and basic researchers to reach across the fields of transplantation and regenerative medicine, and facilitate more productive investigation and research
Catalogs the technologies being developed and methods being implemented to bioengineer or regenerate kidneys to restore function
Readership
Clinicians and clinical researchers in renal transplant, organ transplant, nephrology, and biomedical engineering
Table of Contents
PART I: Kidney Transplantation
Section I: Epidemiology of kidney disease and transplantation
Section II: Donor selection and allocation
Section III: Kidney preservation and transplant procedures
Section IV: Kidney recipients and transplant
Section V: Transplantation immunology and immunomodulation
Section VI: Graft monitoring tools
Section VII: Post-transplant immune events
Section VIII: Early and late complications
Section IX: Long-term outcomes
Section X: Transplant issues and specific patients
Section XI: Ethics and costs
Section XII: Unmet needs
PART II: Kidney Bioengineering and Repair
Section I: Introduction
Section II: Bioengineering
Section III: Bioreactors and biomaterials
Section IV: Regeneration
Section V: Adult cells for regeneration
Section VI: Cell therapy for renal tissue repair
Section VII: Future Perspectives