Handbook of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation

Iain A. M. MacPhee, Division of Clinical Sciences: Renal Medicine, St. George's, University of London; Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, St George's Hospital, London, UK. Jioí Fronik, Transplant Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

List of Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Abbreviations List xv

1 History of transplantation 1
Jiří Froněk and Iain MacPhee

2 Assessment of the potential renal transplant recipient 9
Patrick B. Mark and Alan G. Jardine

3 Pre-transplant assessment and medical evaluation of potential live kidney donors 33
Jonas Wadström

4 Histocompatibility and immunogenetics 55
Susan V. Fuggle and Craig J. Taylor

5 Donor management: care of the heartbeating brain-dead multi-organ donor 77
Paul G. Murphy

6 Deceased donor retrieval 91
Albert M. Wolthuis Diethard Monbaliu Willy Coosemans and Jacques Pirenne

7 Live donor nephrectomy 109
Jiří Froněk and Nicos Kessaris

8 Organisation of transplant services organ sharing and organ allocation: A perspective from the UK and Eurotransplant 141
James Neuberger and Axel Rahmel Copyrighted Material

9 Deceased donor kidney transplantation 159
Luisa Berardinelli

10 Living donor kidney transplantation 173
Jiří Froněk and Nicos Kessaris

11 Pancreas transplantation 191
Guido Woeste and Wolf O. Bechstein

12 Pancreatic islet transplantation 203
František Saudek

13 Anaesthesia for renal transplantation 219
Nicoletta Fossati

14 Anaesthesia for pancreatic transplantation 227
Kai Zacharowski and Hans-Joachim Wilke

15 Anaesthesia for live donor nephrectomy 235
Rehana Iqbal and Karthik Somasundaram

16 Immunosuppression 243
Iain A.M. MacPhee and Teun van Gelder

17 Antibody-incompatible kidney transplantation 271
Nicos Kessaris and Nizam Mamode

18 Renal transplantation in children 287
Luisa Berardinelli and Luciana Ghio

19 Post-transplant diagnostic imaging 297
Lakshmi Ratnam and Uday Patel

20 Transplant histopathology 317
Eva Honsová

21 Infection 335
Rachel Hilton and Martin W. Drage

22 Management during the first three months after renal transplantation 381
Iain A.M. MacPhee Joyce Popoola and Daniel Jones

23 Management of long-term complications 403
Paul N. Harden Richard Haynes Iain A.M. MacPhee and Jiří Froněk

24 Living donor follow-up 437
Robert Elias and Jiří Froněk

25 Ethics of transplantation 447
Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal

Index 461