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Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Historic View

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Successful kidney transplantation requires the interdisciplinary cooperation of surgeons, nephrologists, pharmacists, social workers, nutritionists, and others. It necessitates careful pretransplant evaluation by specialists, thorough immunologic evaluation of recipients and potential donors, and vigilant posttransplant monitoring and care. As with any successful enterprise, the development of transplant as a field for the treatment of men, women, and children with kidney failure was the coming together of disparate research fields after decades of incremental progress, wrong turns, and outright failures. No account could possibly capture the many people responsible for the successes responsible for developing the field of pediatric kidney transplantation as we know it today. In this chapter, we attempt to weave together the stories that lead to the hope of transplantation today.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Kidney Diseases, Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Rachel M. Engen & Priya S. Verghese

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  1. Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY, USA

    Ron Shapiro

  2. Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Minnie M. Sarwal

  3. Department of Nephrology, Akron General Medical Center at Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Akron Children’s Hospital, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  4. Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

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Engen, R.M., Verghese, P.S. (2023). Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Historic View. In: Shapiro, R., Sarwal, M.M., Raina, R., Sethi, S.K. (eds) Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6909-6_1

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