Organ transplantation (kidney 1954, heart 1967)
Trasplante de órganos (riñón, 1954; corazón, 1967)
- Date
- 1954 · confidence high
- Place
- Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, United States (kidney); Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa (heart)
- Credited to
- Joseph Murray (kidney between twins, 23 December 1954; Nobel Prize 1990); Christiaan Barnard (heart, 3 December 1967); Thomas Starzl (liver, 1963)
- People
- 👤 Christiaan Barnard1922–2001👤 Joseph Edward Murray1919–2012👤 Thomas Starzl1926–2017
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
The replacement of a diseased organ with one from a donor, first between identical twins and later with immunosuppression. It turned terminal diseases into treatable conditions.
What it led to
- The definition of brain death and organ donation systems
- Immunosuppression (ciclosporin) and transplant medicine
- Xenotransplantation of genetically modified pig organs
Built on
Made possible
- First human heart transplant3 de diciembre de 1967
- Gene-edited pig organ xenotransplantation2021-2024
- ciclosporin
- brain death as a legal criterion