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 -- Index
Summary
Annotation - Concise but comprehensive guidebook/handbook- Current and translational information- New concepts of rejection and tolerance- Multimedia display of microsurgical technique
