Stuart Knechtle, M.D. is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Surgery and Executive Director of the Duke Transplant Center. He trained in surgery at Duke and in transplant surgery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he was appointed as the first Ray D. Owen Professor of Transplantation. He moved to Emory University in 2008 as the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Professor of Liver Transplantation. In 2015 he returned to Duke to establish the Duke Transplant Center and serve as its Executive Director. He holds the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in Surgery at Duke. His clinical practice includes kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation. He directs translational research in transplant immunology and currently serves as Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded clinical trials addressing the challenges of antibody-mediated injury of kidney transplants. He has published over 400 peer reviewed papers, over 60 book chapters, edited four textbooks, and serves on several editorial boards including Annals of Surgery.
Kidney Transplantation - Principles and Practice, 8e
1. Kidney Transplant: A History
2. The Immunology of Transplantation
3. Chronic Kidney Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy
4. The Recipient of A Renal Transplant
5. Access for Renal Replacement Therapy
6. Brain Death and Cardiac Death: Donor Criteria and Care of Deceased Donor
7. Medical Evaluation of the Living Donor
8. Donor Nephrectomy
9. Kidney Preservation
10. Histocompatability in Kidney Transplantation
11. Surgical Techniques of Kidney Transplantation
12. Transplantation and the Abnormal Bladder
13. Perioperative Care of Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation
14. Early Course of the Patient with a Kidney Transplant
15. Azathioprine and Mycophenolates
16. Steroids
17. Calcineurin Inhibitors
18. mTor Inhibitors: Sirolimus & Everolimus
19. Antilymphocyte Globulin, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Fusion Proteins
20. Other Forms of Immunosuppression
21. Approaches to the Induction of Tolerance
22. Transplantation in the Sensitized Recipient & Across ABO Blood Groups
23. Paired Exchange Programs for Living Donors
24. Kidney allocation
25. Pathology of Kidney Transplantation
26. Biomarkers in Kidney Injury and Rejection
27. Chronic Allograft Failure
28. Vascular and Lymphatic Complications after Kidney Transplantation
29. Urological Complications after Kidney Transplantation
30. Cardiovascular Disease in Renal Transplantation
31. Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
32. Liver Disease among Renal Transplant Recipients
33. Neurological Complications after Kidney Transplantation
34. Cutaneous Disease in Kidney Transplantation Patients
35. Cancer in Dialysis and Transplant Patients
36. Pancreas & Kidney Transplantation for Diabetic Nephropathy
37. Kidney Transplantation in Children
38. Kidney Transplantation in Developing Countries
39. Results of Renal Transplantation
40. Psychological Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney
Donation
41. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Kidney Donation
42. Evidence in Transplantation
