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Basic principles of transplantation immunology

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Cardiac Valve Allografts 1962–1987

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Transplantation means surmounting the biological barrier between individuals. To achieve this has been one of the dreams of mankind for thousands of years as, for example, expressed in former centuries by paintings and sculptures showing the saints Cosmas and Damian — rather than devils — grafting a deceased black man’s leg onto a white patient, whose own leg had to be amputated.

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  1. Müller-Ruchholtz W, Müller-Hermelink HK (1988) Introduction to Transplantation Immunology. In: Sale GE (ed) The Pathology of Transplanted Organs. Butterworths.

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  1. Department of Immunology, University of Kiel, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dr. W. Müller-Ruchholtz

  2. Abteilung Immunologie der Universität Kiel, Brunswiker Str. 4, D-2300, Kiel, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dr. W. Müller-Ruchholtz

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  1. Clinic for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, D-1000, Berlin (West) 65, Germany

    A. Charles Yankah M.D. (Consultant) & Roland Hetzer M.D. (Professor, Chaiman and Director) (Consultant) &  (Professor, Chaiman and Director)

  2. Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    D. Craig Miller M.D. (Ass. Professor of Cardiac Surgery) (Ass. Professor of Cardiac Surgery)

  3. National Heart Hospital, Westmoreland Street, WIM 8BA, London, UK

    Donald Ross M.D. (Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Director or Surgery) & Jane Somerville M.D. (Consultant Cardiologist) (Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Director or Surgery) &  (Consultant Cardiologist)

  4. Harefield Hospital, National Heart and Brompton Hospital, London, UK

    Magdi H. Yacoub M.D. (Professor & Consultant Cardiac Surgeon) (Professor & Consultant Cardiac Surgeon)

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© 1988 Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Darmstadt

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Müller-Ruchholtz, W. (1988). Basic principles of transplantation immunology. In: Yankah, A.C., Hetzer, R., Miller, D.C., Ross, D., Somerville, J., Yacoub, M.H. (eds) Cardiac Valve Allografts 1962–1987. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72420-6_12

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