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Unveiling the History of Transplantation An Illustrated Review of the Boundaries, Fantasies and Realities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Shi
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Elsevier, 2024.
Subjects:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Greffe (Chirurgie)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Unveiling the History of Transplantation
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • 1 Myths and legends
  • Chapter outline
  • 1.1 Myths and fantasy about transplantation
  • 1.2 The legend of transplantation for healing
  • 2 A transplantation attempt
  • Chapter outline
  • 2.1 Tissue transplantation from plant to animal
  • 2.1.1 The advent of natural sciences: botany and zoology
  • 2.1.2 From garden to farmyard
  • 2.1.3 The 19th century: all forms of graft
  • 2.2 Transplantation from animals to man
  • 3 An early transplantation experiment
  • Chapter outline
  • 3.1 Vascular anastomosis-the basic of organ transplantation
  • 3.2 Pioneer of organ transplantation-Emerich Ullmann
  • 3.2.1 Intestinal transplantation
  • 3.2.2 Kidney transplantation
  • 3.2.3 Transplantation of tissues and further medical accomplishments
  • 3.2.4 Later life and death
  • 3.3 Alexis Carrel: father of vascular anastomosis and organ transplantation
  • 4 Transplantation immunology
  • Chapter outline
  • 4.1 The transplantation immunology evolving
  • 4.2 Sir Peter Medawar-the father of transplant immunology
  • 4.3 A short history of HLA
  • 4.3.1 It started in the mouse: discovery of histocompatibility antigen II and the H-2 complex
  • 4.3.2 Discovery of the "first" HLA antigens
  • 4.3.3 The HLA class I and II antigens are strong histocompatibility antigens
  • 4.4 The discovery of T cells-important milestone of immunology
  • 4.5 Paul Ichiro Terasaki-biologist and a pioneer of HLA testing
  • 5 Kidney transplantation
  • Chapter outline
  • 5.1 The first human cadaver kidney transplantation
  • 5.2 The first successful cadaveric orthotopic kidney transplant
  • 5.3 The 1950s Paris Launched Kidney transplantation
  • 5.4 First living relatives kidney transplantation
  • 5.5 René Küss
  • a transplant pioneer in Paris
  • 5.6 Distinguished pioneer of kidney transplantation-Jean Hamburger
  • 5.7 David Hume's contributions to organ transplantation
  • 5.8 The first real successful kidney transplantation in 1954
  • 5.9 The neglected pioneer of dialysis for kidney transplantation
  • Gordon Murray
  • 5.9.1 Early years
  • 5.9.2 Invention of a dialysis machine
  • 5.9.3 Preclinical transplant research
  • 5.9.4 The first modern kidney yransplantation series
  • 5.9.5 Conclusions
  • 5.10 The road to artificial kidney development
  • 6 Liver transplantation
  • Chapter outline
  • 6.1 The first report of orthotopic liver transplantation in the world
  • 6.2 Thomas Starzl-pioneering efforts in organ transplantation
  • 6.3 Sir Roy Calne-transplantation pioneer and artist
  • 6.4 Living donor liver transplantation
  • 6.5 Split liver transplantation
  • 6.6 Domino liver transplantation
  • 7 Thoracic organ transplantation
  • Chapter outline
  • 7.1 Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov-a pioneer of intrathoracic transplantation
  • 7.2 Heart transplantation from experiment to clinical application
  • 7.2.1 Clinical heart transplantation in humans