Abstract
This study used both clinical and histopathologic criteria to define the sequence and time parameters of rejection in histoincompatible vascularized rat laryngeal allografts. Clinical onset of rejection was characterized at 1 week by graft edema. Pathologic examination at this time revealed arterial wall thickening and a diffuse lymphocytic and macrophage mucosal infiltrate. At 14 days, the graft was encased in an inflammatory exudate with no visible cartilaginous structure. This correlated microscopically with a lymphocytic infiltrate of the lamina propria, loss of minor salivary glands, and squamous metaplasia of the surface respiratory epithelium. Arterial thrombosis was always correlated with tissue necrosis, but venous occlusion, occurring more than 2 days after transplantation, was not an independent determinant of graft viability. Definition of the time sequence and histopathology of rejection will allow future determination of the efficacy of various immunosuppressive regimens.
Subject
General Medicine,Otorhinolaryngology
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