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Brought to you by the world’s leading transplantclinicians, Textbook of Organ Transplantation provides acomplete and comprehensive overview of modern transplantation inall its complexity, from basic science to gold-standard surgicaltechniques to post-operative care, and from likely outcomes toconsiderations for transplant program administration, bioethics andhealth policy. Beautifully produced in full color throughout, and with over 600high-quality illustrations, it successfully: Provides a solid overview of what transplantclinicians/surgeons do, and with topics presented in an order thata clinician will encounter them. Presents a holistic look at transplantation, foregrounding theinterrel...
Transplantation is today firmly established as the therapy of choice for end-stage organ failure. However, despite recent developments, this therapy is still not without challenges and risks: The necessity to take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of one's life to prevent allograft rejection trades the morbidity and mortality of organ failure for the risks of infection and cancer as well as for an increased mortality from cardiovascular disease. Thus, there is an urgent need for optimizing the outcome of transplantation by achieving long-term, drug-free graft acceptance with normal organ function.Recently, numerous insights into the dynamic inter-relationship of host immune responses elic...
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