Abdominal Organ Transplantation – State of the Art

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 Foreword 1 Living donation: the gold standard Leonardo V. Riella and Anil Chandraker 2 New Surgical techniques in transplantation Adam D. Barlow and Michael L. Nicholson 3 Living donor liver transplantation Abhideep Chaudhary and Abhinav Humar 4 Antibody incompatible transplantation Nizam Mamode 5 New Developments in Pancreas Transplantation Rajinder Singh, David E.R. Sutherland and Raja Kandaswamy 6 Islet Cell Transplantation Paul R. V. Johnson and Maciej Juszscak 7 Novel cell therapies in transplantation Paul G. Shiels, Karen S. Stevenson, Marc Gingell Littlejohn and Marc Clancy 8 Intestinal Transplantation Khalid M. Khan, Tun Jie, Chirag S. Desai, Rainer W.G. Gruessner 9 Paediatric Renal transplantation Stephen D. Marks 10 Immunosuppressive Pharmacotherapy Steven Gabardi and Anil Chandraker 11 Conclusion Nizam Mamode and Raja Kandaswamy Index