Principles of Organ Transplantation

A detailed text on the principles of the full range of organ transplantation. There are over 400 line drawings and the accompanying text offers step-by-step guidelines to the technological and surgical advances found in organ transplantation. The book covers unifying the principles and practice applicable to organ transplantation and the clinical transplantation of all major and non-vital organs. It also covers immunosuppression, intestinal transplantation, cellular transplants including both pancreatic islet and neurological transplants, and xenotransplantation.