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Corneal Transplantation : an Immunological Guide to the Clinical Problem (With Cd-Rom).

This book provides a summary of the various aspects of corneal transplantation - the clinical, experimental (including multimedia display of the surgical techniques), immunological, therapeutic and prosthetic components - in one volume. The interested specialist in one field can thus have access to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forrester, John V.
Otros Autores: Kuffova, Lucia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A brief history of corneal transplantation
  • 2. Surgery of corneal graft in humans
  • 3. The clinical problem
  • 4. Eye banking
  • 5. MHC antigens, tissue typing and blood group matching in corneal transplantation
  • 6. The alloresponse to corneal graft
  • 7. The xenoresponse to corneal graft
  • 8. Animal models of corneal graft
  • 9. Pathology of human corneal transplantation
  • 10. Therapeutic approach to experimental corneal graft rejection
  • 11. Immunosuppression for human corneal graft rejection
  • 12. Transmission of disease through corneal transplantation
  • 13. Artificial corneas.