Renal Transplantation

The topics covered on each day are as follows:

• State of play – renal transplantation in the UK
• Deceased donor assessment, including increased-risk situations and case discussions
• Live donation evaluation
• Immunological assessment pre- and post-transplantation
• Novel approaches in histocompatibility and immunogenetics (H&I)
• Cardiac evaluation
• Anaesthetic evaluation of the recipient
• Evaluation of the increase risk recipient
• Live donor evaluation
• Strategies to minimise sensitisation after transplant failure

• Kidney transplantation - surgical techniques and management of complications
• Maximising deceased donor kidney utilisation
• Perfusion technologies and their future in renal transplantation
• Organ offer scenarios
• Pancreas transplantation, why, who and how?
• Living kidney donation - surgical aspects and donor outcomes
• Management of the urinary tract pre- and post-transplant
• Surgical complication - case discussions
• Management of the paediatric renal transplant recipient

• Medical complications of transplantation
• Graft survival - what impacts and how to improve
• Infections in the transplant recipient - case discussions
• Screening, pre-treatment, prophylaxis and management of infections
• BK virus (BKV)
• Histology cases (in groups)
• Recurrent disease and management
• Transplant pathology
• Acute and chronic rejection - immunological risk, diagnosis, consequences and treatment
• Immunosuppression - seminal studies and toxicities
• Management of the long-term transplant, including bone disease, reproductive medicine, post-transplant malignancy and chronic kidney disease (CKD)