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Edited by Rainer W.G. Gruessner and Enrico Benedetti. 791 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2008. $205. ISBN 978-0-07-145549-7.

As one who works in the field of transplantation, I find it hard not to be positively predisposed to a book that begins with the dedication, "To all living donors for their vision and courage." Living donors have always been crucial to transplantation. In the beginning, they were vital because preventing rejection depended on immunologic relatedness rather than pharmacologic firepower. Today, our immunosuppression armamentarium is much more powerful than it was at the beginning, and we regularly perform transplants between complete immunologic strangers. And yet, living donation not only persists but is growing in popularity, currently fueled by the success . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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