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by wickedwillie on August 9th, 2004

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What was the first successful human organ transplant, and when?

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  • by AnswerAsh on August 11th, 2004

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    Successful inter-human transplants have actually been around for quite some time, as the operative skills were present long before the necessities for post-operation care were discovered.
    The third century saints Damien and Cosmas are recorded as performing the first medical transplant - replacing the leg of white man with the leg of a dead man. A French surgeon, Alexis Carrel, transplanted the arteries or veins of a man in the 1900s. His skillful operation helped pave the way for later transplant surgery. In 1902 Carrel performed transplants on dogs, successfuly transplanting kidneys, hearts, and spleens, he was one of the first to identify the problem of rejection by the organs.
    The first succesful human organ transplant was the kidney in December 1954 in Boston by Joseph Murray and J. Hartwell Harrison.

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