Current Status of Clinical Organ Transplantation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Histocompatibility matching and the blood transfusion effect

   1. High and low responsiveness in renal transplantation and its impact on HLA matching

      • J. J. van Rood, G. F. J. Hendriks

      Pages 1-6

   2. HLA A and B matching, the mixed lymphocyte reaction and renal allograft survival in a single centre

      • Arthur G. White, George M. Abouna

      Pages 7-13

   3. The role of vascular endothelial cell antigens in renal transplantation

      • James Cerilli, Lauren Brasile

      Pages 15-21

   4. Blood transfusion(s) and cadaveric renal transplantation in the Netherlands

      • G. G. Persijn, J. J. van Rood

      Pages 23-38

3. Immunosuppression and immunological monitoring

   1. The development of immunosuppression

      • T. E. Starzl, B. W. Shaw, S. Iwatsuki

      Pages 39-48

   2. Antilymphocyte Globulin (ALG) infusion in the treatment of acute renal allograft rejection: a prospective study

      • M. S. A. Kumar, A. G. White, P. John, G. M. Abouna

      Pages 49-56

   3. Cyclosporin in renal transplantation: results of the Minnesota randomised trial

      • D. E. R. Sutherland, J. S. Najarian, M. Strand, D. S. Fryd, R. M. Ferguson, R. L. Simmons et al.

      Pages 57-60

   4. Antilymphocyte globulin and thoracic duct drainage in renal transplantation

      • J. Traeger, J. L. Touraine, J. M. Dubernard, M. C. Malik

      Pages 61-78

   5. Monitoring of organ allograft rejection by fine needle aspiration cytology

      • P. Häyry, J. Ahonen, E. von Willebrand

      Pages 79-95

4. Donor procurement and organ preservation

   1. Organ procurement and transportation

      • F. K. Merkel, K. M. Sigardson

      Pages 97-106

   2. Procurement of kidneys from non heart beating donors

      • T. J. M. Ruers, J. P. A. M. Vroemen, J. A. Van der Vliet, G. Kootstra

      Pages 107-114

   3. Donor age in cadaveric renal transplantation

      • J. A. Van der Vliet, G. G. Persijn, B. Cohen, G. Kootstra

      Pages 115-121

   4. Prolonged preservation of imported cadaveric grafts by ice cooling with Eurocollin’s solution versus hypothermic pulsatile perfusion

      • George M. Abouna, M. S. A. Kumar, Arthur G. White, Salah K. Dadah, O. S. G. Silva

      Pages 123-130

   5. A new approach to prolonged kidney preservation

      • G. Kootstra, B. G. Rijkmans, W. A. Buurman

      Pages 131-139

5. Vascular access surgery in renal transplantation

   1. The upper arm A-V fistula for chronic hemodialysis: long term followup

      • Fuad Joseph Dagher

      Pages 141-145

   2. Permanent vascular access for haemodialysis: the Kuwait experience

      • S. K. Dadah, M. Samhan, O. F. Omar, G. M. Abouna

      Pages 147-151

6. Renal transplantation

   1. Current status of renal transplantation

      • James Cerilli

      Pages 153-161

   2. The living donor for kidney transplantation: a review of 100 consecutive donors

      • P. John, M. S. A. Kumar, M. Samhan, G. M. Abouna

      Pages 163-171

   3. Kidney transplantation in diabetic recipients: factors leading to improved results

      • D. E. R. Sutherland, D. S. Fryd, C. E. Morrow, F. C. Goetz, R. M. Ferguson, R. L. Simmons et al.

      Pages 173-175

MICHAEL F.A. WOODRUFF Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Edinburgh This book grew out of a very successful conference on Organ Transplantation held in Kuwait in December 1982. The material presented at the conference has been expanded and brought up to date, and the result is a well written and authoritative account of many aspects of organ transplantation by a distinguished team of contributors drawn from many countries. A unique feature of the book is the account it contains of the development of organ transplantation in the Middle East. Although, as yet, it has been virtually impossible in Islamic countries to take organs after death for use as transplants, it is beginning to look as if this situation may change. Meanwhile, using living volunteer donors and a small number of cadaveric organs sent from other countries, transplant teams in Kuwait and Turkey are obtaining results with kidney transplants which are as good, in terms of both transplant survival and patient survival, as those reported from acknowledged centres of excellence in the United States, Europe and other countries where organ transplantation has been established for many years.

• Immunosuppression
• Surgery
• bone marrow
• hemodynamics
• liver transplantation
• organ
• organ transplantation
• transplantation

• Department of Organ Transplantation, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University and Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  George M. Abouna, Arthur G. White

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