Contents
Nr. 1 – 1. Quartal 2002

• Xenotransplantation: Philosophical Considerations
  D. v. Engelhardt

• Xenotransplantation: Theological Considerations
  A. Elsässer

• The Ethical Status of Embryos
  W. Vossenkuhl

• Nuclear Transfer Technology and Therapeutic Cloning
  K. Prelle, M. Ott, V. Zakhartchenko, E. Wolf

• Xenotransplantation from Pig to Man
  K. Ulrichs

• Generation of Tissues and Organs from Cultivated Cells – Vision or Reality?
  W. W. Minuth, K. Schumacher, R. Strehl, U. de Vries

• Short Communications

  • Timing of Heart Transplantation: Influence of a New Allocation-urgency on Mortality, Perioperative Complications and Prognosis in Heart Transplant Recipients
    U. Schulz, G. Tenderich, K. Minami, O. Coskun, S. Wlost, S. Schulte-Eistrup, M.H. Amin Parsa, W. Deyerling, R. Koerfer

  • Outcome of Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Transplantation in Pediatric and Adult Heart Transplant Recipients
    G. Tenderich, B. Schulze, A. El Banayosy, J. Jahanyar, U. Schulz, G. Hall, M.H. Amin Parsa, E. zu Knyphausen, S. Schulte-Eistrup, K. Minami, R. Koerfer

  • Outcome of Heart Transplantation in Adults with Juvenile Donor Organs - A Retrospective Study in 62 Patients
    K.W. Deyerling, G. Tenderich, M.H. Amin Parsa, S. Schulte-Eistrup, U. Schulz, S. Wlost, H. Meyer, K. Minami, R. Koerfer

  • Bone Pathology in Patients After Heart Transplantation
    R. Pfitzner, F. Orchowski

  • Is the Use of Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) Beneficial in Heart Transplantated Patients?
    P. Lüönd, C. Seydoux, F. Tinguely, X. Mueller, P. Ruchat, A. Fischer, M. Hurni, F. Stumpe, L. von Segesser, J.J. Goy

  • The Impact of a Local Coordination Unit on the Number of Transplanted Thoracic Organs
    C. Gachet, L. Imperatori, X. Mueller

• Information from the DTG

• Protocol "Organkommissionssitzung Pankreas", 22.11.2001

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