Proceedings of the International Congress held in Chamrousse (France), 1-2 February 1991.

Kidney transplantation has revolutionised the treatment of end-stage renal failure. Not only does it offer the best hope for complete rehabilitatio...

Despite significant accomplishments to date, kidney transplantation is a relatively young field in medicine. The shortage of deceased donor organs ...

Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with a healthy liver allograft. The most commonly used tech...

Lung transplantation (LT) is the only definitive treatment for many forms of end-stage pulmonary diseases. However, its success is limited by sever...

The issue of living organ donation is important because it represents one important set of possibilities for balancing the needs of people seeking ...

Clinical transplantation is still in the infancy stage with less than 60 years history. Despite recent successes, there are still several unresolve...

This book brings together researchers from three different continents who present different perspectives on the complex issue of organ donation. Se...

Kidney transplantation has revolutionised the treatment of end-stage renal failure. Not only does it offer the best hope for complete rehabilitatio...

The progress in HLA research achieved in the last decade has been extremely beneficial for understanding of the human genome structure, evolution o...

This book depicts the basic aspects of all surgeries for kidney transplantation in both adults and children, including procurement of kidney, prepa...

In 1970 American neurosurgeon Robert White and his team carried out the first full head transplant in living monkeys. However, the resulting chimer...

In recent years, transplantation immunology has evolved as a distinct field founded on the recognition that rejection of a transplanted organ or ti...