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. Jioi Fronik, Transplant Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

1 History of transplantation Ji?i Fronik 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 Wadstrom 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 Ji?i Fronik 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 Ji?i Fronik 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 Ji?i Fronik and Robert Elias 25 Ethics of Transplantation Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal Index