Overview
- First title of its kind that provides up-to-date information on the planning and preparation that goes toward clinical xenotransplantation
- Features an authorship consisting of several leaders in the field of clinical organ transplantation as well as the leaders in the field of xenotransplantation research
- Reviews and analyzes the research that has provided the recent experimental advances within the field
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Clinical and Experimental Xenotransplantation: Background
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Pig Kidney and Heart Xenotransplantation in Nonhuman Primates: The Present Position
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Organ-Source Pig Genetic Engineering and Regulation
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Antibody-Mediated Allotransplant Rejection: Lessons for Xenotransplantation
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Patient Evaluation and Selection for First Clinical Trials of Kidney or Heart Xenotransplantation
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About this book
The book is organized across 22 chapters, beginning with background information on clinical and experimental xenotransplantation. Following this are discussions addressing how pigs can be genetically engineered for their organs to be resistant to the human immune response through deletion of pig xenoantigens, and the insertion of ‘protective’ human transgenes. Subsequent chapters analyze complications that arise in practice, comparing allotransplant and xenotransplant rejection. The selection of the ideal patients for the first clinical trials is discussed. Finally, the book concludes with an analysis on the regulatory, economic, and social aspects of this research, including FDA perspectives and the sensitive, psychosocial factors regarding allotransplantation and xenotransplantation.
A major and timely addition to the literature, Clinical Xenotransplantation will be of great interest to all researchers, physicians, and academics from other disciplines with an interest in xenotransplantation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Co-Director, Xenotransplantation Program
Department of Surgery
Birmingham, AL
Guerard W. Byrne, PhD
Department of Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Xenotransplantation
Book Subtitle: Pathways and Progress in the Transplantation of Organs and Tissues Between Species
Editors: David K. C. Cooper, Guerard Byrne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49127-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49126-0Published: 09 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49129-1Published: 10 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49127-7Published: 08 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 306
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery, Hepatology, Microbiology, Immunology