Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice

The Immunology of Transplantation

Introduction Solid organ transplant requires the removal of an organ from one individual, the donor, and its placement in the recipient. Whether the donor is living or deceased, this process inevitably requires a temporary cessation of circulation and hence oxygenation,…

Kidney Transplantation: A History

The modern period of transplantation began in the late 1950s, but two earlier periods of interest in clinical and experimental transplantation were the early 1950s and the first two decades of the 20th century. Hamilton provides a bibliography of the…