With color illustrations throughout, this book analyzes the implications that transplantation and immunosuppression can hold for patients. Discussing the many complications that may occur after kidney transplantation, this source is a must for anyone caring for patients recovering from this type of procedure.

The problems a transplant patient faces do not stop once the surgery is over; in addition to problems with the transplant itself, the host body reacts in a number of different ways to the arrival of a new organ and the immuno suppression required to sustain it. This pioneering text from an internationally known expert on the kidney details the problems that a patient faces with a kidney transplant and looks at how the physician can treat these; it will be an essential resource for all those involved in the initial and continuing treatment of kidney transplant patients.