Introduction
Christopher J. Wong
Pages 1-4
Overview of Solid Organ Transplantation for Primary Care Providers
Diana Zhong, Christopher J. Wong
Pages 5-27
Anti-rejection Medication Therapy in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Lydia Sun, Tyra Fainstad, Christopher Knight
Pages 29-47
Primary Care of the Adult Kidney Transplant and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient
Cary H. Paine, Iris C. De Castro
Pages 49-76
Primary Care of the Adult Liver Transplant Recipient
Lauren A. Beste, Anne M. Larson
Pages 77-97
Primary Care of the Adult Heart Transplant Recipient
Vidang P. Nguyen, Andy Y. Lee, Richard K. Cheng
Pages 99-132
Primary Care of the Adult Lung Transplant Recipient
Erika D. Lease
Pages 133-151
Infections in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Gabrielle N. Berger, Genevieve L. Pagalilauan
Pages 153-196
Common Symptoms in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Kim O’Connor, Christopher J. Wong
Pages 197-229
Cancer Risk in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Deborah Greenberg
Pages 231-252
Metabolic Complications in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Anna Golob, Jennifer Wright
Pages 253-274
Preventive Health in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Leah M. Marcotte, Heidi Powell
Pages 275-300
Palliative Care in the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
Katherine G. Hicks, Eleanor Curtis, Melissa A. Bender
Pages 301-317

Solid organ transplantation offers a new chance at life to those suffering from failing organs. With these successes, however, comes the everyday management that is required to maintain health. The field of solid organ transplantation has become a part of medicine that generalists should be familiar with, as recipients are living longer and frequently returning to primary care for management. While specialists will still need to be involved with the care of solid organ transplant recipients on a life-long basis, many conditions will still need initial and often ongoing care by generalists, including infections, metabolic conditions, psychiatric illnesses, and malignancy.
This book focuses on the care of adult solid organ transplant recipients, and is targeted at the level of the primary care provider. It begins with an introduction and overviews of solid organ transplantation and anti-rejection medications. It then delves into organ-specific chapters that provide the primary care provider with an overview of how to take care of patients with the most commonly-transplanted solid organs: kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, heart, and lung. The final section focuses on specific complications that arise from transplantation including cancer, metabolic conditions, infections, and common presenting syndromes. Preventative health is also discussed, and the book concludes with a chapter on palliative care.
Primary Care of the Solid Organ Transplant Recipient is a unique text that provides the reader with organ and complication-specific sections that can be independently read as they relate to the individual physicians and their patients. Written by experts in the field, this text is a valuable resource for primary care providers, medical students, residents and anyone involved in the care of solid organ transplant recipients.