Surgery: Types of Transplants and Graft Immunology — Internal Medicine and Transplantation Surgery

Surgery · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

A comprehensive and rigorous analysis of transplant immunology, cell preservation, surgical anastomosis techniques, modern immunosuppressive regimens, and management of acute and chronic complications in the recipient patient.

What it covers

1. Transplant Medicine
2. Transplant Immunology
3. · Allorecognition Pathways
4. · Pre-Transplant Histocompatibility Tests
5. Types of Graft Rejection
6. · Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR)
7. · Chronic Rejection and Histopathology
8. Organ Preservation and Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
9. · Pathophysiology of Cellular Ischemia
10. · Organ Preservation Solutions
11. · New Frontiers: Ex Vivo Dynamic Organic Perfusion
12. The Organ Donor
13. · Brain Death (BD) and Donor Pathophysiology
14. · Donation in Asystole / Donation after Cardiorenal Death (DCD)
15. Kidney Transplant
16. · Standard Surgical Technique
17. · Surgical Complications
18. Liver Transplant
19. · Assignment of Organs and Selection Criteria
20. · Surgical Technique of Hepatectomy and Anhepatic Phase
21. · Clinical-Surgical Complications
22. Heart Transplant
23. · Surgical Implantation Techniques
24. · Physiology of the Denervated Heart
25. · Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy (CAV)
26. Lung Transplant
27. · Unilateral vs. Bilateral: Procedure Selection
28. · Surgical Anastomosis Technique and the Problem of Bronchial Ischemia
29. Pancreas and Pancreatic Islet Transplantation
30. · Clinical Modalities of Pancreas Transplantation
31. · Surgical Management of Exocrine Drainage
32. · Islets of Langerhans Transplant
33. Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplant
34. · Variants of the Surgical Technique
35. · The Great Immunological Challenge of the Mucous Barrier
36. Vascularized Composite Tissue Transplantation (VCA)
37. · Special Surgical Considerations of VCAs
38. · Extreme Skin Immunogenicity
39. Hematopoietic Stem Transplantation (HSCT)
40. · TPH modalities
41. · Conditioning Regimes
42. · Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD - GVHD)
43. Modern Immunosuppressive Therapy
44. · T Lymphocyte Activation Mechanism: "The Three Signals"
45. · Pharmacological Arsenal: Immunosuppression Drug Cards
46. Post-Transplant Infections and Complications
47. · Post-Transplant Infectious Chronology (Rubin's Calendar)
48. · Routine Antimicrobial and Antiviral Prophylaxis
49. · Polyomavirus BK nephropathy (PVAN)
50. · Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders (PTLD)