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This book is designed to fill the need for a contemporary handbook for the practice of renal and pancreatic transplantation that is focussed on a European rather than North American approach. There are significant differences in transplant practice internationally and there is a need for a practical guide to application of the current evidence base. CONTENTS 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 Index
Specifications
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication date
January 6, 2012
Pages
504
ISBN
9780470654910
Format
Paperback
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