Clinical transplantation: optimizing immunosuppressive treatment without compromise.

Transplant 2001, the second joint meeting of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, was held from May 13 to 16, 2001, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The congress highlighted the constantly improving outcomes of organ transplantation. Incidence of rejection is under 15% for most transplants as a result of the availability of various immunosuppressants, which in turn permit an expanding number of treatment combinations as well as treatments increasingly tailored to the condition and needs of each patient.