Living Donor Organ Transplantation puts the entire discipline in perspective while guiding you step-by-step through the most common organ transplant surgeries.

Living Donor Organ Transplantation features:

• The first A-to-Z, operative-oriented guide to the field of living donor organ transplantation
• Unparalleled examination of a wide spectrum of solid organ transplantation operations (liver, pancreas, kidney, intestines), with accompanying chapters on the history of the procedure, the donor, the recipient, and cost analysis
• Skill-building coverage of techniques that explains how to perform the surgery, and ways to ensure adequate post-surgical organ function
• Chapters on cultural differences, ethical and legal issues, social issues, current financial incentives, and the illegal organ trade
• Up-to-date survey of the future possibilities of organ transplantation, covering new immunosuppressive protocols, xenotransplantation, gene therapy, organogenesis and therapeutic cloning, and more

Contents

General Aspects of Living Donor Organ Transplantation

1. Cultural Differences in Living Organ Donation: A Global Perspective
2. Ethical and Legal Issues
3. Donor Counseling and Consent
4. Nondirected and Controversial Donors
5. Social Issues

Paid Legal and Illegal Organ Donation

6. Current Financial Incentives
7. Paid Legal Organ Donation
8. Challenges of Paid Organ Donation For Public Health Care Policy
9. Illegal Organ Trade: Global Justice and The Traffic in Human Organs
10. The Impact of The Internet on Paid Legal and Illegal Organ Donation

Organ-Specific Aspects of Living Donor Abdominal Organ Transplantation

Kidney Transplantation

11. Kidney Transplantation: Personal Reflections
12. History of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
13. Kidney Transplantation: Geographical Differences
14. Kidney Transplantation: The Donor
15. Kidney Transplantation: The Recipient
16. Kidney Transplantation: Cost Analysis

Pancreas Transplantation

17. History of and Rationale For Pancreas Transplantation
18. Pancreas Transplantation: The Donor
19. Pancreas Transplantation: The Recipient
20. Registry Report and Long-Term Outcome
21. Islet Autotransplantation After Pancreatectomy: History and Outcomes
22. Islet Transplantation Using Living Donors

Liver Transplantation

23. Personal Reflections and History of Living Donor Liver Transplanation
24. Regional Variations in the U.S. Living Donor Experience
25. Institutional Needs For Living Donor: Liver Transplantation
26. Role of Split Liver Transplantation From Deceased Donors: Lessons Learned
27. Liver Regeneration
28. Living Donor Liver Transplantation: The Donor
29. Liver Transplantation: The Recipient
30. Intestinal Transplantation

Intestinal Transplantation

31. History of Living Donor Intestinal Transplantation
32. Intestinal Transplantation - The Donor
33. Intestinal Transplantation - The Recipient

Future Developments and Alternatives to Living Donor Transplantations

34. Dual-Organ Donation
35. Use of Living Donors For HIV-Positive Transplant Candidates
36. New Immunosuppressive Protocols
37. Strategies to Induce Tolerance
38. Xenotransplantation
39. Gene Therapy
40. Organogenesis and Cloning

Index

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