Organ Transplantation 1990 (Hardcover)

One: Historical Reflections.- 1. Reflections on the development of organ transplantation.- Two: Immunology of Organ Transplantation.- 2. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of allograft rejection.- 3. What does the alloreactive T cell see?.- 4. HLA matching and organ transplantation.- 5. An effective strategy for transplantation of highly sensitized patients.- 6. Rapid lymphocyte crossmatching for renal transplantation.- Three: Organ Allograft Rejection.- 7. Fifteen-year experience with fine needle aspiration biopsies at the University of Helsinki.- 8. Study of antibody specificity in highly sensitized patients using human monoclonal antibody technology.- 9. Idiotypic-Antiidiotypic antibody interaction and renal transplant survival.- Four: Immunosuppression.- 10. Transplantation and blood transfusion in 1990.- 11. Quadruple-drug immunosuppressive induction treatments for immunological high-risk patients in cadaveric renal transplantation using poly-and monoclonal antibodies.- 12. Sequential combination immunotherapy for cadaveric renal transplantation: OKT3 versus rabbit ATG induction.- 13. Multi-organ transplant experience with OKT3 and strategies for use at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.- 14. Cyclosporine withdrawal in renal transplant recipients maintained on azathioprine, prednisone and cyclosporine.- 15. Early experience with FK 506 in liver transplantation.- 16. Deoxyspergualin. A novel immunosuppressant: experimental and clinical studies.- 17. Preliminary results with FK 506 in pancreas grafting in a nonhuman primate model.- 18. The effect of DST on graft outcome - the Turkish experience.- 19. Induction of specific unresponsiveness (tolerance) to experimental and clinical allografts using polyclonal antilymphocyte serum and donor-specific bone marrow.- 20. Comparison of cyclosporine assays using radioimmunoassay, fluorescent polarization immunoassay and high-performance liquid chromatography.- Five: Renal Transplantation.- 21. Long-term outcome in renal transplantation.- 22. Ten-year experience with 500 renal transplants.- 23. Long-term results in recipients of cadaveric renal allografts under cyclosporine therapy.- 24. Transplantation of single and double kidneys from pediatric donors.- 25. ABO-incompatible living related donor transplantation.- 26. The use of single pediatric cadaver kidneys for transplantation into adult recipients.- 27. Living unrelated donor renal transplantation.- 28. Renal transplantation in Tunisia - a three-year experience.- 29. Renal transplantation in children.- 30. Kidney donors - long-term follow up.- 31. Current techniques for permanent vascular access surgery - experience with 930 procedures.- 32. Results of 319 consecutive renal transplants from living related and living unrelated donors in Iran.- Six: Liver Transplantation.- 33. Liver transplantation: current status.- 34. An overview of liver transplantation therapy for children.- 35. Current anesthetic management in clinical liver transplantation.- 36. Risk factors in adult liver transplant recipients.- 37. The concept of reduced-size liver transplantation, including split-liver and living related liver transplantation.- 38. Immunological factors contributing to outcome in liver transplantation.- 39. Transplantation for hepatobiliary malignancies.- 40. The diagnosis and management of massive blood loss during liver transplantation.- 41. Early clinical experience with cluster resection and transplantation for right upper quadrant abdominal malignancy.- Seven: Heart/Heart-Lung Transplants.- 42. Lung transplantation: current techniques and outcomes.- 43. Heart-lung transplantation at the University of Minnesota.- 44. Specificity and sensitivity of the cytoimmunological monitoring (CIM): differentiation between cardiac rejection, viral, bacterial, or fungal infection.- Eight: Pancreas Transplantation.- 45. International Pancreas Transplantation Registry report.- 46. Techniques and experience of pancreatic transplantation wit...

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1991
First published:	September 1991
Editors:	G.M. Abouna • M.S.A. Kumar • A.G. White
Dimensions:	230mm (L)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	608
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-1191-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Surgery > Transplant surgery
LSN:	0-7923-1191-4
Barcode:	9780792311911

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