List of Contributors, ix
Preface, xiii
Abbreviations List, xv
1 History of transplantation, 1
Jiøí Fronĕk 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
Jiøí Fronĕk 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
9 Deceased donor kidney transplantation, 159
Luisa Berardinelli
10 Living donor kidney transplantation, 173
Jiøí Fronĕk 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 21
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 Jir¡í Frone¡k
24 Living donor follow-up 437
Robert Elias and Jiøi Fronĕk
25 Ethics of transplantation 447
Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal
Index 461