Immunology of heart and lung transplantation

SECTION I Basic Science-Immunology of Rejection. Effector mechanisms in transplant rejection an overview, I V Hutchinson. The initiation of immune responses and allograft rejection, J.M. Austyn. Immunology of heart rejection in experimental models, S.G. Tuilius, T Sablinski, U W. Heemann, J.W. Jupiec-Weglinksi and N.L. Tilmney. Role of endothelial cells in immune responses, J. R Bradley. Cytokines and their receptors in organ transplantation, M.J. Daliman. SECTION II Clinical -Studies - immunology of rejection and immunosuppression. Monoclonal antibodies in transplantation, J.D. Davies and H. Waldmann. The new immunosuppressive macrolides-mechanisms of action, A.W. Thomson. Relevance of HLA matching and humoral and cellular immune responses to HLA in clinical heart transplantation, F H J.Claas. Histological diagnosis of acute heart rejection, M E Billingham. Histological diagnosis of lung rejection, S A Yousem. Immunocytochemical analysis of transplanted heart and lung, M L Rose and M H Yacoub. Clinical relevance of lymphocyte analysis in cardiac and pulmonary transplantation, A Zeevi, C Kaufmn and R Duquesnoy. Antibody mediated reaction following cardiac transplantation, M. J. Dunn and M L Rose. SECTION III - Clinical Aspects and Complications. Clinical and non-invasive methods of diagnosing rejection after heart transplantation, H.A. Valantine and S A Hunt. Importance of cytomegalovirus infection in heart and heart-lung transplantation, T.Wreghitt. Biology of lymphoproliferative diseases in transplant patients, J.A. Thomas and D.H. Crawford. Graft versus host disease in heart and/or lung transplantation, B.J. Hunt. Clinical diagnosis of rejection and the development of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung trnsplantation, John H. Dark.