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Table of Contents:

Contributor's List
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Outcome After Renal Transplantation 1
2 History of Renal Transplantation 25
3 Evaluation of the Potential Renal Allograft Recipient 43
4 Cadaveric and Living Donation 73
5 Anesthetic Management in Kidney Transplantation 95
6 The Transplant Procedure 103
7 Postoperative Management of the Renal Transplant Recipient 141
8 Prevention and Management of Rejection 149
Immunology of the Allograft Rejection Response 149
Immunologic Monitoring 157
Mechanisms of Action of Immunosuppressive Agents 163
Histocompatibility Testing and Cross Matching 177
Conventional Immunosuppressive Agents 183
Clinical Experience with New Immunosuppressive Agents in Renal Transplant Recipients 195
9 Chimerism After Whole Organ Transplantation: An Explanation of Renal and Other Organ Acceptance 219
10 Clinical Aspects of Renal Transplantation Pathology 243
11 Complications of Renal Transplantation 267
Surgical Complications 269
Medical Complications 299
Infectious Complications 315
Neurologic Complications 333
Malignancy After Renal Transplantation 353
12 Allograft Nephrectomy 383
13 Radiologic Evaluation of the Renal Transplant Patient 391
14 Renal Transplantation in Infants and Children 427
15 Concomitant or Sequential Kidney Transplantation with Other Organs 471
Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation 483
Renal and Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation 495
16 Pregnancy After Kidney Transplantation 503
17 Xenogeneic Renal Transplantation 513
18 Future Prospects 531
Index 543