Publisher's Synopsis
Leading authorities from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine provide their expertise - who, when, why, how - in this comprehensive atlas/reference. All organ systems in which clinical transplantation plays a role are represented.;The experts take the reader step-by-step through challenging and innovative operative procedures, using descriptive text and 600 brilliant full-colour intraoperative photographs and drawings. The most recent technical and immunological innovations are described by the contributors, each of whom is a pioneering expert in the field.;In addition, the text covers care of the transplant patient both in and out of the operating room, including information on patient selection and evaluation, donor selection, anesthesia, complications, outpatient follow-up, indications and contradications, preoperative care and management, postoperative care, rejection and infection and extensive references for further study.
