"Organ Donation and Transplantation: Current Status and Future Challenges" ed. by Georgios Tsoulfas

This book describes same challenges involved including the ethical, legal, and medical issues in organ donation and the technical and immunological problems the experts are facing. The authors provide their personal clinical experience on a variety of different aspects of organ donation and transplantation.

One of the most interesting and at the same time most challenging fields of medicine and surgery has been that of organ donation and transplantation. It is a field that has made tremendous strides during the last few decades through the combined input and efforts of scientists from various specialties. What started as a dream of pioneers has become a reality for the thousands of our patients whose lives can now be saved and improved. However, at the same time, the challenges remain significant and so do the expectations.

Contents
1 Organ Donation
2 Organ Donation and Transplantation: "Life after Death"
3 Procurement of Abdominal Organs in Multi-Organ Donation in Deceased Donor
4 The Society, the Barriers to Organ Donation and Alternatives for a Change
5 The Process of Organ Donation from Non-Living Donors: A Case-Based Journey from Potential Donor Identification to Organ Procurement
6 Family-Centered Care to Improve Family Consent for Organ Donation
7 Current Situation of Organ Donation in China
8 Experimental Brain Death Models in Liver Transplantation
9 Pancreas Retrieval for Whole Organ and Islet Cell Transplantation
10 Organ Donation Course in Medical Education Program
11 Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation
12 Anesthetic Considerations in Transplant Recipients for Nontransplant Surgery
13 Pancreas Transplantation
14 Intestinal Transplantation
15 Cardiovascular Diseases in Patients with Renal Transplantation
16 Xenotransplantation
17 Immunosuppressive Minimization Strategies in Kidney Transplantation
18 Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation
19 Clinical and Pathological Review of Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders
20 Metabolic Drug Interactions with Immunosuppressants