This comprehensive volume provides a platform from which both major and minor infectious diseases related issues are addressed in-depth among this highly susceptible population. The book begins with an overview of infections in various modalities. This is followed by chapters on clinical disorders, etiologic agents, therapeutics, and infection prevention. Chapters include easy-to-follow figures and tables, radiologic images, and pictorial demonstrations of various disease states to familiarize and reacquaint the transplant clinicians and surgeons in practice and training, and those belonging to subspecialties providing supportive care for these patients. Discussions to enumerate the noninfectious causes that mimic infectious diseases; clinical relevance and effective utility of existing and emerging diagnostic tools are presented throughout the book. Authored by leaders in their fields, this book is the go-to reference for management of patients undergoing hematopoietic and solid organ transplantation.

Amar Safdar, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

El Paso, TX, USA

Infections in Transplantation:  Introduction and Overview.- Infections in Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplantation.- Infections in Liver Transplantation.- Infections in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation.- Infections in Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation.- Infections in Limbs, Integuments, and Face Transplantation.- Principles of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.- Infections in Pediatric Transplant Recipients.- Febrile Neutropenia in Transplant Recipients.- Cytopenias in Transplant Patients.- Infections in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation.- Complications Arising from Preparatory Conditioning Regimens for Stem Cell Transplantation .- Intravascular Catheter and Implantable Device Infections in Transplant Patients.- Surgical Site Infections: Wound and Stump Infections.- Endovascular Infections and Endocarditis.- Gastrointestinal Infections and Clostridium difficile Infection.- Hepatobiliary Tract Infections.- Ocular Infections in Transplant Patients.- Intracranial, Spinal, and Paraspinal Infections in the Transplant Recipient.- Respiratory Tract Infections: Sinusitis, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia.- Respiratory Tract Diseases That May Be Mistaken For Infection.- Skin and Soft Tissue Infection in Transplant Recipients.- Cutaneous Lesions that Mimic Infection in Transplant Patients.- Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Enterococcus.- Enterobacteriaceae in Transplantation.- Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas, Acinetobacter, and Other Non-Fermentative Gram-Negative Bacteria & Medically Important Anaerobic Bacteria in Transplant Recipients.- Nocardiosis andActinomycosis.- Listeriosis.- Tuberculosis.- Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease in Transplant Recipients.- Invasive Fungal Disease in the Transplant Population: An Overview.- Candida Infections in Hematopoietic and Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.- Aspergillosis.- Mucormycosis.- Cryptococcus Infections in Transplant Recipients.- Histoplasmosis, Coccidioidomycosis and Diseases due to Other Endemic Fungi in Transplant Recipients.- Cytomegalovirus.- Epstein-Barr Virus Infection andPost-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease.- Herpes Simplex Viruses 1 and 2, Varicella Zoster Virus and Human Herpes Viruses 6, 7 and 8 in Transplant Recipients.- Respiratory Viral Infections in Transplant Recipients.- . Hepatitis A, B, C.- Enterovirus Infection inImmunocompromised Hosts.- Parvovirus B19 .- West Nile Virus in Immunocompromised Hosts.- Rare and Emerging Viral Infections in the Transplant Population.- Parasitic Infections in Transplant Recipients: Toxoplasmosis, Strongyloidiasis and Other Parasites.- Impacts and Challenges of Advanced Diagnostic Assays for Transplant Infectious Diseases.- Diagnosis of Systemic Fungal Diseases.-  Viral Diagnostics.- Antibiotic Consideration in Transplant Recipients.- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotics in Transplant Patients.- Antifungal Consideration for Transplant Recipients.- Immunomodulatory Properties of Antifungal Agents on Immune Functions of the Host.- Antiviral Consideration for Transplantation Including Drug Resistance.- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antiviral Drugs in Special Population.- Anti-Mycobacterial Consideration in Transplantation Including Drug Non-Susceptibility and Resistance: Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease.- Adaptive Immunotherapy for Opportunistic Infections.- Immunotherapy for Invasive Mold Disease in Transplant Patients - Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy, Interferon-gamma, Remcobinant Myeloid Growth Factors, and Healthy Donor Granulocyte Transfusions.-  Antimicrobial Stewardship: Considerations for a Transplant Center.- The Use of Palliative Care in Organ Transplant Patients and End of Life Issues.- Infection Control Strategies in Transplant Populations.- Travel and Transplantation.- Vaccination in Organ Transplant.- Prevention of Fungal Disease.- Antimicrobial Drug Prophylaxis: Challenges and Controversies.