Transplantation of Composite Tissue Allografts - Hewitt, Charles W.; Lee, W.P. Andrew; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Section I -- The Establishment of Composite Tissue Allotransplantion as a Clinical Reality -- The Evolution of Composite Tissue Allotransplantation: the Twentieth Century Realization of "Cosmas and Damian" -- The Impact of the Discovery of Cyclosporine on Transplantation of Composite Tissue Allografts -- The First Limb Transplants with Cyclosporine -- Section II -- Translational Research in Composite Tissue Allotransplantation -- Relative Antigenicity of Allograft Components and Differential Rejection -- On the Road to Tolerance Induction in Composite Tissue Allotransplantation -- Donor-Specific Tolerance -- Immune Tolerance Induction: Basic Concepts for Composite Tissue Allotransplantation -- Section III -- Allograft Survival with Calcineurin Inhibitors -- Long-Term Prevention of Rejection and Combination Drug Therapy -- Locoregional Immunosuppression in Composite Tissue Allografting -- New Approaches to Antibody Therapy -- Section IV -- World Experience of Hand Transplantation-Independent Assessment -- Hand Transplantation: Lyon Experience -- Hand Transplantation: The Louisville Experience -- Hand Transplantation: The Innsbruck Experience -- Section V -- Vascularized Bone Marrow Transplantation -- Vascularized Bone Marrow Transplantation: Pathology of Composite Tissue Transplantation-Induced Graft-Versus-Host-Disease -- Immune Cell Redistribution After Vascularized Bone Marrow Transplantation -- Section VI -- Vascularized Knee Transplantation -- Tracheal Transplantation -- Laryngeal Transplantation -- Face Transplantation -- The Role of Allografts in Lower Extremity Reconstruction -- Skin Allografts in Scalp Reconstruction -- Abdominal Wall Transplantation -- Peripheral Nerve Allotransplantation -- Live-Donor Nerve Transplantation -- Section VII -- Ethical and Policy Concerns of Hand/Face Transplantation -- Ethical Debate on Human Face Transplantation -- Psychosocial Issues in Composite Tissue Allotransplantation -- Composite Tissue Transplantation in the Twenty-First Century.
Keywords: Immunology; Surgery; Surgical transplantation; Biomedical engineering; Immunology; Surgery; Transplant Surgery; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering