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A History of Organ Transplantationis a comprehensive and ambitious exploration of transplant surgery-which, surprisingly, is one of the longest continuous medical endeavors in history. Moreover, no other medical enterprise has had so many multiple interactions with other fields, including biology, e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, David, 1939- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Barker, Clyde F. (Autor de introducción, etc.), Starzl, Thomas E. (Thomas Earl), 1926-2017 (Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Temas:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > History.
Organ Transplantation > history
Greffe (Chirurgie) > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL > Surgery > Transplant.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Toward the Impossible
  • Early Transplantation
  • The Eighteenth Century
  • The Reawakening
  • Clinical and Academic Transplantation in Paris
  • The Beginning of Organ Transplantation
  • The "Lost Era" of Transplantation Immunology
  • Anarchy in the 1920s
  • Progress in the 1930s
  • Understanding the Mechanism
  • Experimental Organ Transplantation
  • Transplantation Tolerance and Beyond
  • Hopes for Radiation Tolerance
  • The Emergence of Chemical Immunosuppression
  • Support from Hemodialysis and Immunology in the 1960s
  • Progress in the Mid-1960s
  • Brain Death and the "Year of the Heart"
  • The Plateau of the Early 1970s
  • The Arrival of Cyclosporine
  • Waiting for the Xenografts
  • Conclusion: Lessons from the History of Transplantation.

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