A comprehensive state of the art, introductory handbook to the most common soft organ translplantation procedures.

Covers the basic information essential for trainees and non-specialists working with kidney disease and diabetic patients.

Includes coverage of paediatric transplantation, organisation of long-term care, as well as law and ethical issues. Foreword
Peter Morris

1 History of transplantation

Jiøí Fronìk and Iain A.M. MacPhee

2 Assessment of the potential renal transplant recipient

Alan G. Jardine and Patrick B Mark

3 Pre-transplant assessment and medical evaluation of potential live kidney donors

Jonas Wadström

4 Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics

Susan V. Fuggle and Craig J. Taylor

5 Donor management: the care of the heart beating brain dead multi-organ donor

Paul G. Murphy

6 Deceased donor retrieval

Albert M. Wolthuis, Diethard Monbaliu, Willy Coosemans and Jacques Pirenne

7 Live donor nephrectomy

Jiøí Fronìk and Nicos Kessaris

8 Organisation of transplant services, organ sharing and organ allocation: A perspective from the UK and Eurotransplant

James Neuberger and Axel Rahmel

9 Deceased donor kidney transplantation

Luisa Berardinelli

10 Living donor kidney transplantation

Jiøí Fronìk

11 Pancreas transplantation

Guido Woeste and Wolf O Bechstein

12 Pancreatic islet transplantation

Frantisek Saudek

13 Anaesthesia for renal transplantation

Nicoletta Fossati

14 Anaesthesia for pancreatic transplantation

Kai Zacharowski and Hans-Joachim Wilke

15 Anaesthesia for live donor nephrectomy

Rehana Iqbal

16 Immunosuppression

Iain A.M. MacPhee and Teun van Gelder

17 Antibody removal

Nicos Kessaris and Nizam Mamode

18 Paediatric transplantation

Luisa Berardinelli and Luciana Ghio

19 Post-transplant diagnostic imaging

Lakshmi Ratnam and Uday Patel

20 Transplant histopathology

Eva Honsova

21 Infection

Rachel Hilton and Martin W. Drage

22 Management during the first three months after transplantation

Iain A.M. MacPhee, Joyce Popoola, and Daniel Jones

23 Management of long-term complications

Paul N. Harden and Richard Haynes

24 Living donor follow-up

Jiøí Fronìk and Robert Elias

25 Ethics of Transplantation

Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal

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