Kidney Transplantation—Clinical and Surgical Challenges II

Dear Colleagues,

Kidney transplantation is universally considered the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease. In the last two decades, tremendous advances in surgical care and immunosuppressive therapy have led to a significant reduction of peri-operative mortality and morbidity as well as cell-mediated rejection rates. However, long-term allograft survival has not improved as we would have expected. Currently, the main causes of premature transplant loss are death with function, antibody-mediated rejection, polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, and calcineurin-inhibitor nephrotoxicity. Albeit less frequently, late vascular and urological complications such as renal artery stenosis, post-biopsy arteriovenous fistulas, ureteric stricture, or allograft neoplasms do also play a role.

The present Special Issue intends to explore the impact of clinical and surgical complications on long-term renal allograft survival as well as to analyse possible prevention and treatment strategies. Both common and rare complications will be considered with the option of including narrative reviews and case reports of particular interest or exceptional didactical value.

“Kidney Transplantation—Clinical and Surgical Challenges” will give specialists involved in the care of renal transplant recipients the opportunity to share their experience or point of view on several relevant topics with the primary aims of improving global knowledge and patient outcomes.

Dr. Evaldo Favi
Dr. Mariano Ferraresso
Dr. Gionata Spagnoletti
Guest Editors

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