Transplantation Print and enhanced E-Book

A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

By
  • John Forsythe, MD FRCS (Ed) FRCS(Eng), Consultant Transplant and Endocrine Surgeon, Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Professor, Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • John Forsythe, MD FRCS (Ed) FRCS(Eng), Consultant Transplant and Endocrine Surgeon, Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Professor, Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Ever since the publication of the first edition in 1997, the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series has met the needs of surgeons in higher training and practising consultants by providing contemporary, evidence-based information on the sub-specialist areas relevant to their general surgical practice. All eight volumes are thoroughly edited and supported by evidence-based references to support key recommendations. This new Fourth Edition brings together the relevant state-of-the-art specialist information that the editors and authors consider important for the practising sub-specialist general surgeon. Purchase of a print book also includes a downloadable version of the eBook.

Hardbound, 320 Pages

Published: September 2009

Imprint: Saunders

ISBN: 978-0-7020-3013-0

Contents

  • • Controversies in the ethics of organ transplantation
    • The acute shortage of deceased donors in the UK – recommendations set in an international context
    • Immunology of graft rejection
    • Testing for histocompatibility
    • Immunosuppression with the kidney as paradigm
    • The donor procedure
    • Recent trends in kidney transplantation: a review
    • Liver transplantation
    • Pancreas transplantation
    • Pancreatic islet transplantation
    • Cardiothoracic transplantation
    • Cytomegalovirus, Epstein–Barr virus and BK virus infection following solid-organ transplantation
    • Chronic transplant dysfunction
    • Index

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