Early Days of Liver Transplantation

The early days of liver transplantation were exciting, demanding, subject to terrible disappointments and sadness but occasional elation, and a gradual understanding of the factors necessary to achieve a satisfactory operation. In addition, care of an extremely sick patient, the management of the di...

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Published inAmerican journal of transplantation Vol. 8; no. 9; pp. 1775 - 1778
Main Author Calne, R. Y.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2008
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History of liver transplantation
History, 20th Century
Humans
Liver Transplantation - history
Survival Analysis
tolerance
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:The early days of liver transplantation were exciting, demanding, subject to terrible disappointments and sadness but occasional elation, and a gradual understanding of the factors necessary to achieve a satisfactory operation. In addition, care of an extremely sick patient, the management of the disease, especially if it was infectious or malignant, and the support of the relatives and the transplant team, required a group of loyal, dedicated and above all optimistic members who could see through the repeated unhappy outcomes that eventually most of the problems would be solved. This in fact has come to pass. The story of the early days of liver transplantation illustrate how a strong idea, animal experimentation, and human experimentation can succeed in the face of prevailing skepticism and technical barriers.
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ISSN:1600-6135
1600-6143
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02315.x