Personalized Medicine in Organ Transplantation 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Medicine, Cell, and Organism Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 April 2024) | Viewed by 1911
Special Issue Editor
Interests: kidney transplantation; transplant surgery; organ transplantation; organ donation; transplant immunology; transplant medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the first successful human-to-human kidney transplant between identical twins in 1954, personalized medicine has permeated the field of transplantation due to the intricacies of donor-recipient matching. Indeed, transplantation has been nearly synonymous with personalized medicine, requiring specialized approaches to ABO blood typing, HLA classification, infectious disease treatment and prophylaxis, medication dosing, and surgical techniques. In the current era of precision medicine initiatives, the field of transplantation is ripe for innovation that is accelerating at a pace akin to Moore’s Law. Practitioners in the field are constantly striving to provide the best possible care for patients in the context of shifting multi-level regulations and an urgency to meet the increasing demands for transplantable organs. Despite the progress, solutions to ongoing problems remain elusive, such as equitable allocation policies, pre-transplant risk assessment, optimal induction and maintenance immunosuppression regimens, and intelligent allograft monitoring protocols. All these and more are needed to ensure improved allograft and patient survival while minimizing the risk of infectious and other complications.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Personalized Medicine aims to highlight some of the latest studies applying precision medicine to improve the care of people with end-stage organ disease who are in need of or have undergone transplantation.
Dr. Muhammad Mujtaba
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organ transplantation
- kidney transplantation
- liver transplantation
- heart transplantation
- personalized medicine
- precision medicine