Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-sjtt6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-15T17:10:02.530Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Clark C. Otley
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester MN
Thomas Stasko
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Get access

Summary

The miracle of successful solid organ transplantation is one of the most inspiring accomplishments of modern medicine and an impressive example of multidisciplinary collaboration. Due to the frequent involvement of the skin of transplant patients by infectious, neoplastic, and systemic diseases, dermatologists have always been an important part of the medical team caring for solid organ transplant recipients. As a by-product of the success in assuring prolonged survival for most organ transplant patients, the chronic and potent systemic immunosuppression has given rise to a new set of challenges for patients and providers alike, manifest by alarming increases in skin cancer and unusual manifestations of skin disease.

Dermatologists are part of a larger community of what we refer to as “non-organ-specific transplant physicians,” composed of providers unbound by allograft-specific considerations. This non-organ-specific community includes infectious disease, endocrinology, bone, metabolism, hypertension, psychiatry, internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatric physicians, as well as general, plastic, head and neck, ophthalmologic, and orthopedic surgical colleagues. Additionally, this community includes nephrologists, cardiologists, hepatologists, and pulmonologists who care for patients with allografts transplanted by other allograft-specific specialists. Closely and critically allied are the transplant coordinators, nurses, dieticians, appointment coordinators, and social services providers who provide and coordinate the majority of care in these complex patients. The transplant patients themselves are a critical and inspiring part of the team, upon which the most critical responsibility rests. This is the family of transplantation, a family of which dermatology is proud to be part.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×