Clinical Management of Renal Transplantation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. History of renal transplantation

   • Mary G. Mcgeown

   Pages 1-8

3. Ethical considerations

   • Mary G. Mcgeown

   Pages 9-26

4. Legal aspects of renal transplantation

   • J. F. Douglas

   Pages 27-34

5. Assessment of the patient before renal transplantation

   • J. F. Douglas

   Pages 35-60

6. Preparation for transplantation 1

   • J. F. Douglas

   Pages 61-76

7. Preparation for transplantation 2

   • J. F. Douglas

   Pages 77-89

8. Preparation for transplantation 3

   • J. F. Douglas

   Pages 91-106

9. Renal osteodystrophy

   • A. P. Maxwell

   Pages 107-113

10. Tissue typing

    • D. Middleton

    Pages 115-133

11. The cadaveric donor

    • G. Lavery

    Pages 135-151

12. Retrieval and preservation of the kidney

    • J. A. Kennedy

    Pages 153-159

13. The living donor

    • B. G. Wilson, W. G. G. Loughridge, S. R. Johnston

    Pages 161-165

14. Insertion of the kidney

    • P. F. Keane, R. Kernohan

    Pages 167-179

15. Management of the recipient during operation

    • J. P. Alexander

    Pages 181-199

16. Immunosuppression

    • Mary G. McGeown

    Pages 201-229

17. Nursing care of the patient with a renal transplant

    • Mary G. McGeown

    Pages 231-241

18. Graft dysfunction and its differential diagnosis

    • C. C. Doherty

    Pages 243-262

19. The pathology of renal transplantation

    • Claire M. Hill

    Pages 263-275

20. Surgical complications of renal transplantation

    • R. A. Donaldson

    Pages 277-290

Clinical Management of Renal Transplantation presents The Belfast City and University Hospital experience in renal transplantation. Over the years, the Belfast Renal Transplant Unit has acquired considerable experience in all aspects of renal transplantation which have led to excellent results. The team working in the Belfast Renal Transplant Unit has built up an outstanding reputation which has become widely known.
This volume is a comprehensive, practical reference work for senior medical students and nurses as well as for the established nephrologist and transplantation surgeon. It provides a clear and concise picture of the care needed by patients who are being prepared for renal transplantation or who have recently received a kidney transplant.

• immunosuppression
• kidney
• pathology
• transplantation

`The chapters are well-written, well-indexed, and provide a broad and comprehensive account of renal transplantation on a worldwide basis, in addition to local protocols. ... Overall, this is an excellent book on renal transplantation. The superb results that the Belfast unit has achieved over the years should make it a compelling book to be read by all medical personnel who are interested in transplantaion as a method of renal replacement therapy.'
Dialysis & Transplantation, May 1994

`This is a comprehensive and easily readable book .... The figures and the illustrations nicely complement the text.
Overall, this book is nicely presented and should be recommended as an introduction guide for junior doctors, internists or nephrologists not familiar with renal transplation.'
Acta Clinica Belgica, 49, 2 (1994)

• Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

  Mary G. McGeown

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