Transplantation of composite tissue allografts
By: Charles W. Hewitt and W.P. Andrew Lee, editors ; Chad R. Gordon, associate editor.
Contributors: Hewitt, Charles W.; Lee, W. P. Andrew.; Gordon, Chad R.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9780387746814; 9780387746821
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.; Transplantation immunology.; Biomedical engineering.; Tissue Transplantation.; Transplantation Immunology.; Transplantation, Homologous.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The establishment of composite tissue allotransplantation as a clinical reality / Joseph E. Murray; title: The evolution of composite tissue allotransplantation: the twentieth century realization of "Cosmas and Damian" / Chad R. Gordon ... [et al.]; title: The impact of the discovery of cyclosporine on transplantation of composite tissue allografts / Zsolt T. Csapo, Bence Forgacs, and Barry D. Kahan; title: The first limb transplants with cyclosporine / Christopher J. Salgado, Samir Mardini, and Charles W. Hewitt; title: Translational research in composite tissue allotransplantation / Linda C. Cendales, David E. Kleiner, and Allan D. Kirk; title: Relative antigenicity of allograft components and differential rejection / Jignesh Unadkat ... [et al.]; title: On the road to tolerance induction in composite tissue allotransplantation / Mark A. Hardy; title: Donor-specific tolerance / Au H. Bui, Gerald Lipshutz, and Jerzy Kupiec-Weglinski; title: Immune tolerance induction: basic concepts for composite tissue allotransplantation / Patricio Andrades, Clement Asideu, and Judith M. Thomas; title: Allograft survival with calcineurin inhibitors / Neil F. Jones and Esther Voegelin; title: Long-term prevention of rejection and combination drug therapy / Thomas H. Tung; title: Locoregional immunosuppression in composite tissue allografting / Scott A. Gruber; title: New approaches to antibody therapy / Dalibor Vasilic, Moshe Kon, and Cedric G. Francois; title: World experience of hand transplantation-independent assessment / W.P. Andrew Lee, Justin M. Sacks, and Elaine K. Horibe; title: Hand transplantation: Lyon experience / Palmina Petruzzo ... [et al.]; title: Hand transplantation: the Louisville experience / Vijay S. Gorantla and Warren C. Breidenbach III; title: Hand transplantation: the Innsbruck experience / Stefan Schneeberger, Marina Ninkovic, and Raimund Margreiter; title: Vascularized bone marrow transplantation / Chau Y. Tai ... [et al.]; title: Vascularized bone marrow transplantation: pathology of composite tissue transplantation-induced graft-versus-host-disease / Rajen Ramsamooj and Charles W. Hewitt; title: Immune cell redistribution after vascularized bone marrow transplantation / Waldemar L. Olszewski and Marek Durlik; title: Vascularized knee transplantation / Michael Diefenbeck and Gunther O. Hofmann; title: Tracheal transplantation / Gabriel M. Marta and Walter Klepetko; title: Laryngeal transplantation / Robert R. Lorenz and Marshall Strome; title: Face transplantation / Maria Siemionow and Galip Agaoglu; title: The role of allografts in lower extremity reconstruction / Milton B. Armstrong, Ricardo Jimenez-Lee, and Eddie Manning; title: Skin allografts in scalp reconstruction / Peter C. Neligan; title: Abdominal wall transplantation / Chau Y. Tai and Susan E. Mackinnon; title: Live-donor nerve transplantation / Scott A. Gruber and Pedro Mancias; title: Ethical and policy concerns of hand/face transplantation / Rhonda Gay Hartman; title: Ethical debate on human face transplantation / François Petit; title: Psychosocial issues in composite tissue allotransplantation / Barckley Storey ... [et al.]; title: Composite tissue transplantation in the twenty-first century / Kirby S. Black and Charles W. Hewitt.