Includes bibliographical references.

Why hemopoietic stem cell transplant and for whom? / Andrew Cant, Charles Craddock, and Rod Skinner -- Pre-transplant assessment / Mary Slatter and Steve Fox -- The transplant / Rod Skinner, Anne Lennard, and Paul Veys -- Care of the transplant patient / Carole Charley and Wendy Larmouth -- Prevention of infection during hemopoietic stem cell transplantation / Wendy Larmouth and Angela Galloway -- Bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections in the transplant patient / Gail Jones, Julia Clark, and Angela Galloway -- Virus infections in the hemopoietic stem cell transplant patient / Clive Taylor and Andrew Turner -- Management of febrile neutropenia and system specific infections / Gail Jones, Julia Clark, and Angela Galloway -- The role of intensive care in the management of hemopoietic stem cell patients / Barbara Fulton and Alistair Gascoigne -- Graft versus host disease and post transplant lymphoproliferative disease / Mario Abinun and Jim Cavert -- Gastrointestinal, respiratory and renal/urogenital complications of hemopoietic stem cell transplantation / Mario Abinun and Jim Cavert -- Follow up in the first year after hemopoietic stem cell transplantation / Andy Gennery and Matthew Collin -- Immune recovery post hemopoietic stem cell transplantation and vaccination / Andy Gennery, Dawn Barge, and Gavin Spickett -- Prevention of infection following discharge after hemopoietic stem cell transplant / Helen Harvey and Angela Reed -- Social and psychological aspects of care / Maggie Allan and Dot Holder -- Long term follow-up of transplant recipients / Rod Skinner and Graham Jackson -- Hemopoietic stem cell transplantation: the future / Andrew Cant and Graham Jackson.