Pediatric Nephropathology & Childhood Kidney Tumors with Online Resource

"Since the first identical twin kidney transplant in the 1950s, the survival rate of allografts and recipients has significantly increased due to improvements in the surgical techniques, pre- and post-transplant care, and advances in immunosuppressive therapy Given superior outcomes compared to dialysis, most children with end stage kidney failure (ESKF) are currently referred for transplantation with the best outcome (improvement of child's growth, longer graft survival, lower rejection prevalence) seen in pre-emptive transplantation and live donation"--

Introduction Helen Liapis; Part I. Normal Kidney Development: 1. Normal human kidney development and congenital anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract (CAKUT) Paul Winyard, Raffaele Napolitano and Neil J. Sebire; 2. Distribution of pediatric renal biopsy diagnoses in a large single center and rare pediatric cases Alejandro Best Rocha; 3. Low nephron mass in premature babies Paul Winyard; Part II. Glomerular Diseases: 4. Idiopathic and hereditary proteinuric glomerular diseases Danica Galeši¿ Ljubanovi¿ and Parker Wilson; 5. Haematuric glomerular diseases (Collagenopathies) Catherine Horsfield and Helen Liapis; 6. Immune complex mediated glomerular diseases Pablo Xavier Cannata; 7. Pathology of inherited metabolic diseases affecting the kidney Sabine Leh and Surya V. Seshan; 8. Glomerular diseases with fibrillary deposits Nattawat Klomjit, Ladan Zand and Mariam Priya Alexander; 9. Mitochondrial diseases in the pediatric kidney Alessia Buglioni and Mariam Priya Alexander; Part III. Tubulointerstitial Diseases: 10. Hereditary and acquired tubulointerstitial diseases Amélie Dendooven and Elena Levtchenko; 11. Tubulointerstitial diseases with crystal and pigment deposits Tri Nguyen and Joris Roelofs; Part IV. Vascular Diseases: 12. Vascular diseases Thorsten Wiech, Silke Brix and Peter F. Zipfel; Part V. Infectious Diseases: 13. Infectious diseases Marjan Afrouzian and Stanley de Almeida Araujo; Part VI. Cystic Diseases: 14. Cystic diseases: autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease Carrie Phillips, Bharathi V. Reddy and Stephen M. Bonsib; 15. Tuberous sclerosis complex Christie Boils; 16. Glomerulocystic diseases Pablo Cannata; 17. Nephronopthisis complex (NPH- ADTKD) Kerstin Amann; Part VII. Solid Tumors of the Kidney and Bladder: 18. Solid tumors of the kidney and bladder Maureen O'Sullivan and John O'Neill; Part VIII. Distribution of Pediatric Renal Biopsy Diagnoses in a Large Single Center and Rare Pediatric Cases: 19. Transplant pathology Agnieszka Perkowska-Ptasinska.