Main description:

Transplantaton meets the needs of surgeons in higher training and practising consultants for a contemporary and evidence-based account of this sub-specialty that is relevant to their general surgical practice. It is a practical reference source incorporating the most current information on recent developments, management issues and operative procedures. The text is thoroughly referenced and supported by evidence-based recommendations wherever possible, distinguishing between strong evidence to support a conclusion, and evidence suggesting that a recommendation can be reached on the balance of probabilities.

This is a title in the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series whose eight volumes are an established and highly regarded source of information for the specialist general surgeon.

Contents:

. Controversies in the ethics of organ transplantation
. Organ donation in the UK: recent progress and future challenges
. Immunology of graft rejection
. Testing for histocompatibility
. Immunosuppression with the kidney as paradigm
. Preservation and perfusion of abdominal organs for transplantation
. Recent trends in kidney transplantation
. Liver transplantation
. Pancreas transplantation
. Islet transplantation
. Cardiothoracic transplantation
. Transplant infectious disease
. Chronic transplant dysfunction
. Index