Abdominal Organ Transplantation

Nizam Mamode is Consultant Surgeon in the Renal Unit at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital. He specialises in kidney and abdominal transplantation surgery. He has practised in leading centres worldwide including the United States (Minnesota)and Spain (Barcelona). He also works at Great Orrmonde Street Hospital performing pediatric transplant surgery. Mr Mamode is a Councillor of the British Transplant Society. Dr Raja Kandaswamy is Associate Professor and Transplant Surgeon at Amplatz Children'S Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.

List of Contributors vii

Foreword xi

Chapter 1 Living Donation: The Gold Standard 1
Leonardo V. Riella and Anil Chandraker

Chapter 2 New Surgical Techniques in Transplantation 17
Adam D. Barlow and Michael L. Nicholson

Chapter 3 Living-donor Liver Transplantation 33
Abhideep Chaudhary and Abhinav Humar

Chapter 4 Antibody-incompatible Transplantation 56
Nizam Mamode

Chapter 5 Pancreas Transplantation 80
Rajinder Singh David E.R. Sutherland and Raja Kandaswamy

Chapter 6 Allotransplantation of Pancreatic Islets 107
Maciej T. Juszczak and Paul R.V. Johnson

Chapter 7 Novel Cell Therapies in Transplantation 138
Paul G. Shiels Karen S. Stevenson Marc Gingell Littlejohn and Marc Clancy

Chapter 8 Intestinal Transplantation 150
Khalid M. Khan Tun Jie Chirag S. Desai and Rainer W.G. Gruessner

Chapter 9 Pediatric Renal Transplantation 163
Stephen D. Marks

Chapter 10 Immunosuppressive Pharmacotherapy 177
Steven Gabardi and Anil Chandraker

Chapter 11 Conclusion 209
Nizam Mamode and Raja Kandaswamy

Index 213