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By Claudio Ponticelli. 425 pp., illustrated. Abingdon, England, Informa Healthcare, 2007. $229.95. ISBN 978-0-415-41715-0.

Medical Complications of Kidney Transplantation is a wonderful reference that details the problems that can develop in recipients of kidney transplants: allograft dysfunction, cancer, infection, hematologic diseases, skin lesions, cardiovascular events, and musculoskeletal, ocular, and neurologic disturbances. It is a complete compilation of author Claudio Ponticelli's extensive experience and insight into the art of transplantation medicine, combined with a review of the medical literature on the subject. The book is easy to read, is nicely illustrated, and includes useful tables.

But even with all these positive attributes, there are several distractions. A medical book written by a single author . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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