Skin Disease in Organ Transplantation

Skin disease is a serious long-term problem for the recipients of solid organ transplants. The potent systemic immunosuppression therapy necessary to sustain a life-saving solid organ transplant is associated with many adverse cutaneous effects, including significantly increased rates of cutaneous malignancies, difficult-to-treat cutaneous infections, and cutaneous adverse manifestations of multiple medications. This book is the first scholarly compilation of the knowledge base surrounding the care of solid organ transplant recipients with dermatologic diseases. Supplemented with dozens of full-color photographs, this work brings together decades of knowledge into a cohesive format and establishes transplant dermatology as an important subspecialty within the field of dermatology and transplant medicine. Skin Disease in Organ Transplantation is an outstanding resource for transplant providers and dermatologists to determine the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic approach to the difficult problems of cutaneous disease in organ transplant recipients. "An excellent and useful addition to the field of dermatology...Should be included in the library of all practicing dermatologists as well as transplant physicians." --Doody's Book Review ServicePart I. Transplant Dermatology; Part II. Transplant Medicine and Dermatology; Part III. Pathogenic Factors in Transplant Dermatology; Part IV. Cutaneous Effects of Immunosuppressive Medications; Part V. Infectious Diseases of the Skin in Transplant Dermatology; Part VI. Benign and Inflammatory Skin Diseases in Transplant Dermatology; Part VII. Cutaneous Oncology in Transplant Dermatology; Part VIII. Special Scenarios in Transplant Cutaneous Oncology; Part IX. Educational, Organizational, and Research Efforts in Transplant Dermatology.