Book Transplantation of Kidney

THE WORD OF THE AUTHOR

Transplantation is one of the most complex areas of medicine. Starting with relatively modest beginnings this discipline has quickly reached the scientific advancement becoming the forerunner of the modern clinical medicine. Transplantation of the kidney, hearth, pancreas and other organs is possible now due to the successful treatments of vital organ diseases, which in the past had the fatal end.

This book represents the introduction to the field of the organ transplantation, a field founded on clinical and scientific experience of the colleagues. This book came about as the result of the joint effort of several assistants-specialists from various areas of organ transplantation.
This book represents the immense advancement to the scientific progress that was made in the course of the from the last decades. The progress was made by providing a clear overview of the current status of the transplantation science jointly accomplished by my colleagues Yale University's Yale New Haven hospital (USA), and clinical-university cities Sarajevo and Tuzia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Common part of this book provides the important contribution for the development of the politic of establishing organ donors in Bosnia and Herzegovina having in mind the non-systematic law regulations in this area. The questions about transplantation of the specific organs are covered in the special part of the book. This book touches and analyzes questions such as: immune-suppressive medications as well as modern diagnostic and psychological problems of the patients after the transplantation. Modern diagnostics requires more multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of kidney transplantation. This book tries to illustrate the necesserity of the continue, close coordination between medical disciplines which would enable successful transplantation of almost all organs for which indication exist.

Prof. dr. Jasenko Karamehic
New Haven, USA May, 2003.