Brought to you by the world’s leading transplant clinicians, Textbook of Organ Transplantation provides a complete and comprehensive overview of modern transplantation in all its complexity, from basic science to gold-standard surgical techniques to post-operative care, and from likely outcomes to considerations for transplant program administration, bioethics and health policy.

Beautifully produced in full color throughout, and with over 600 high-quality illustrations, it successfully:

• Provides a solid overview of what transplant clinicians/surgeons do, and with topics presented in an order that a clinician will encounter them.
• Presents a holistic look at transplantation, foregrounding the interrelationships between transplant team members and non-surgical clinicians in the subspecialties relevant to pre- and post-operative patient care, such as gastroenterology, nephrology, and cardiology.
• Offers a focused look at pediatric transplantation, and identifies the ways in which it significantly differs from transplantation in adults.
• Includes coverage of essential non-clinical topics such as transplant program management and administration; research design and data collection; transplant policy and bioethical issues.

Textbook of Organ Transplantation is the market-leading and definitive transplantation reference work, and essential reading for all transplant surgeons, transplant clinicians, program administrators, basic and clinical investigators and any other members of the transplantation team responsible for the clinical management or scientific study of transplant patients.

Allan D. Kirk is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and a practicing transplant surgeon and physician at Emory University Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Kirk was the inaugural Chief of the NIH intramural Transplantation Branch and he has been Principal Investigator (PI) for multiple past and ongoing clinical trials. Dr. Kirk’s bibliography contains over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and he is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Transplantation.

Contents

Section 1: History/Introduction
Section 2: Transplantation Biology
Section 3: Organ Procurement
Section 4: Pre-operative Management of Transplant Patients
Section 5: Transplant Procedure andSurgical Technique
Section 6: Post-transplant Management
Section 7: Long-term Transplant Outcomes
Section 8: Pediatric Transplant
Section 9: Transplant Administration
Section 10: Clinical Trials and Data Management
Section 11: Transplant Policy