Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of transplantation / Ji Fronk and Iain A.M. MacPhee -- Assessment of the potential renal transplant recipient / Alan G. Jardine and Patrick B Mark -- Pre-transplant assessment and medical evaluation of potential live kidney donors / Jonas Wadstrm -- Histocompatibility and immunogenetics / Susan V. Fuggle and Craig J. Taylor -- Donor management : the care of the heart beating brain dead multi-organ donor / Paul G. Murphy -- Deceased donor retrieval / Albert M. Wolthuis [and others] -- Live donor nephrectomy / Ji Fronk and Nicos Kessaris -- Organisation of transplant services, organ sharing, and organ allocation : a perspective from the UK and Eurotransplant / James Neuberger and Axel Rahmel -- Deceased donor kidney transplantation / Luisa Berardinelli -- Living donor kidney transplantation / Ji Fronk -- Pancreas transplantation / Guido Woeste and Wolf O. Bechstein -- Pancreatic islet transplantation / Frantisek Saudek -- Anaesthesia for renal transplantation / Nicoletta Fossati -- Anaesthesia for pancreatic transplantation / Kai Zacharowski and Hans-Joachim Wilke -- Anaesthesia for live donor nephrectomy / Rehana Iqbal -- Immunosuppression / Iain A.M. MacPhee and Teun van Gelder -- Antibody removal / Nicos Kessaris and Nizam Mamode -- Paediatric transplantation / Luisa Berardinelli and Luciana Ghio -- Post-transplant diagnostic imaging / Lakshmi Ratnam and Uday Patel -- Transplant histopathology / Eva Honsova -- Infection / Rachel Hilton and Martin W. Drage -- Management during the first three months after transplantation / Iain A.M. MacPhee, Joyce Popoola, and Daniel Jones -- Management of long-term complications / Paul N. Harden [and others] -- Living donor follow-up / Ji Fronk and Robert Elias -- Ethics of transplantation / Robert Elias and Rehana Iqbal.

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