Surgery: Types of Transplants and Graft Immunology — Internal Medicine and Transplantation Surgery
Surgery · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Un análisis exhaustivo y riguroso de la inmunología del trasplante, preservación celular, técnicas de anastomosis quirúrgica, regímenes inmunosupresores modernos y manejo de complicaciones agudas y crónicas en el paciente receptor.
What it covers
- Transplant Medicine
- Transplant Immunology
- · Allorecognition Pathways
- · Pre-Transplant Histocompatibility Tests
- Types of Graft Rejection
- · Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR)
- · Chronic Rejection and Histopathology
- Organ Preservation and Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
- · Pathophysiology of Cellular Ischemia
- · Organ Preservation Solutions
- · New Frontiers: Ex Vivo Dynamic Organic Perfusion
- The Organ Donor
- · Brain Death (BD) and Donor Pathophysiology
- · Donation in Asystole / Donation after Cardiorenal Death (DCD)
- Kidney Transplant
- · Standard Surgical Technique
- · Surgical Complications
- Liver Transplant
- · Assignment of Organs and Selection Criteria
- · Surgical Technique of Hepatectomy and Anhepatic Phase
- · Clinical-Surgical Complications
- Heart Transplant
- · Surgical Implantation Techniques
- · Physiology of the Denervated Heart
- · Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy (CAV)
- Lung Transplant
- · Unilateral vs. Bilateral: Procedure Selection
- · Surgical Anastomosis Technique and the Problem of Bronchial Ischemia
- Pancreas and Pancreatic Islet Transplantation
- · Clinical Modalities of Pancreas Transplantation
- · Surgical Management of Exocrine Drainage
- · Islets of Langerhans Transplant
- Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplant
- · Variants of the Surgical Technique
- · The Great Immunological Challenge of the Mucous Barrier
- Vascularized Composite Tissue Transplantation (VCA)
- · Special Surgical Considerations of VCAs
- · Extreme Skin Immunogenicity
- Hematopoietic Stem Transplantation (HSCT)
- · TPH modalities
- · Conditioning Regimes
- · Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD - GVHD)
- Modern Immunosuppressive Therapy
- · T Lymphocyte Activation Mechanism: "The Three Signals"
- · Pharmacological Arsenal: Immunosuppression Drug Cards
- Post-Transplant Infections and Complications
- · Post-Transplant Infectious Chronology (Rubin's Calendar)
- · Routine Antimicrobial and Antiviral Prophylaxis
- · Polyomavirus BK nephropathy (PVAN)
- · Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders (PTLD)
The complete study guide is in the app
This page summarizes the outline. The full interactive study guide —with high-yield diagrams, clinical tables, and board review cases— can be read inside Epistemis, completely offline and ad-free.
- Subject
- Surgery
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 50
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02