Features

Presents comprehensive, authoritative, dependable information in a single source
Covers all aspects of renal transplantation - many units in developing countries have started transplant programs using only this text
Addresses all the major immunosuppressive therapies in separate chapters, with information on new and experimental drugs

Contents

1. Kidney Transplantation: A History; 2. Immunology of Rejection; 3. End-stage Renal Failure and Renal Replacement Therapy; 4. The Recipient of Renal Replacement; 5. Access of Renal Replacement Therapy
6. Brainstem Death; 7. The Donor and Donor Nephrectomy; 8. Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
9. Renal Preservation; 10. HLA Matching and Cross matching; 11. Surgical Techniques of Renal Transplantation
12. Transplantation and the Abnormal Bladder; 13. Anaesthesia in Renal Transplantation; 14. The Early Course of a Patient with a Kidney Transplant; 15. Azathioprine and Steroids; 16. Cyclosporine; 17. Tacrolimus; 18. Experimental and Clinical Experience with Mycophenolate Mofetil; 19. Sirolimus; 20. Antilymphocyte Globulin and Monoclonal Antibodies; 21. Other Forms of Immunosuppression; 22. Total Lymphoid Irradiation
23. Approaches to the Induction of Tolerance; 24. Histopathology of Renal Allograft Rejection; 25. Immunohistology of the Transplanted Kidney; 26. Transplant Cytology; 27. Chronic Renal Allograft Failure
28. Vascular and Lymphatic Complications After Renal Transplantation; 29. Urological Complications After Renal Transplantation; 30. Cardiovascular Complications of Transplantation; 31. Infectious Complications After Renal Transplantation; 32. Liver Complications After Renal Transplantation; 33. Neurological Complications after Renal Transplantation; 34. Skin Lesions in Renal Transplant Patients; 35. Cancer in Dialysis and Transplant Patients; 36. Renal Transplantation for Diabetic Nephropathy; 37. Paediatric Transplantation ; 38. Transplantation in Developing Countries; 39. Results in Renal Transplantation; 40. Psychological Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Organ Donation; 41. Ethics in Transplantation; 42. Xenotransplantation of the Kidney; 43. The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) System and Nomenclature