Chronic allograft failure; natural history, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management.9781587061530 Chronic allograft allograft: see transplantation, medical. failure; natural history, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management. Ed. by Nasimul Ahsan. Landes Bioscience 2008 341 pages $169.00 Hardcover RD120 Covering both basic science and clinical implications, this book addresses one of the largest unmet needs in solid organ transplantation The transfer of organs such as the kidneys, heart, or liver from one body to another. The transplantation of human organs has become a common medical procedure. Typical organs transplanted are the kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, cornea, skin, bones, and lungs. : the need to reduce long-term allograft loss. A historic perspective of organ transplantation is followed by an analysis of data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Research/Organ Procurement Transplant Network. Four chapters are devoted to fundamentals of transplant immunology immunology, branch of medicine that studies the response of organisms to foreign substances, e.g., viruses, bacteria, and bacterial toxins (see immunity). Immunologists study the tissues and organs of the immune system (bone marrow, spleen, tonsils, thymus, lymphatic and basic mechanisms of allograft rejection. The next 25 chapters describe the patho- physiology and management of chronic allograft loss involving individual organs. Later chapters discuss the roles played by infectious agents infectious agent Pathogen, see there , particularly cytomegaloviruses and emerging viruses. The book's readership includes medical students, immunologists, pathologists, and transplant specialists. The art program offers b&w micro-images, photos, explanatory diagrams, and anatomical illustrations--and an amusing choice of cover art. Ahsan teaches medicine at the Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace. Mayo Clinic voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723] See : Medicine College of Medicine and consults for the Mayo Clinic Transplant Center. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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