Medicine Atlas

How Healing Is Practiced
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

Treatment

Organ Transplantation

Also Known As Organ Transplant
Surgical Procedure

Organ transplantation is the surgical transfer of a functioning organ from a donor to a recipient. The first successful transplant of a solid organ, a kidney, was performed in 1954 by a team led by Joseph Murray between identical twins, which avoided the immune rejection that had defeated earlier attempts; transplantation of other organs and between non-identical donors followed once effective immunosuppressive drugs were developed in subsequent decades. This atlas describes the history of the treatment and is not medical advice.

Facts
Classification
Status
Standard of Care 1
Origin Year
1954 2
Organ Transplantation
Filter Results1 entry

Chronic Kidney Disease

Organ Transplantation
FAQs

Why has rejection remained the central problem of organ transplantation?

Rejection and the side effects of preventing it are described as the key problem.

Successful human transplants rested on operative skills that existed long before anyone had discovered what a patient needs in order to survive afterward. One source on the history of transplantation states that rejection, and the side effects of preventing rejection, especially infection and nephropathy, were and are the key problem and may always be. This atlas describes the history of the treatment and is not medical advice.
Connections

Associated With

Surgery, Medical Specialties

Long-Form Articles

Rejection: the problem that outlasted the surgery in organ transplantation, Articles

Treats

Chronic Kidney Disease, Conditions
Source WikipediaWikipedia contributors
Additional Source Chronic kidney disease (Wikipedia)Lead section
Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
2. Wikipedia: Transplantation (medicine)
  • History section (opening paragraph)
    Rejection and the side effects of preventing rejection (especially infection and nephropathy) were, are, and may always be the key problem.
  • Wikipedia: Transplantation (medicine), lead section
    J. Hartwell Harrison performed the first organ removal for transplant in 1954 as part of the first kidney transplant.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplantation_(medicine), lead section
    Transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ, tissue, or cells are removed from one organism and placed in a recipient organism, often to replace a damaged or missing function.
  • Lead, first sentence
    Transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ, tissue, or cells are removed from one organism and placed in a recipient organism, often to replace a damaged or missing function.
View the Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner, CRC Press
Chronic kidney disease (Wikipedia)
WikipediaTreats: Chronic Kidney Disease, Lead section
Quote, Treats: Chronic Kidney Disease, Lead section
Other benefits of early nephrology referral include proper education regarding options for kidney replacement therapy, as well as pre-emptive transplantation, and timely workup and placement of an arteriovenous fistula in those people with chronic kidney disease opting for future hemodialysis. === Renal replacement therapy === At stage 5 CKD, kidney replacement therapy is usually required, in the form of either dialysis or a kidney transplant.
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

Choose a year to see this entry's facts and connections as the atlas records them at that moment: what it held then, what it held instead, and what it had not yet adopted. Choose Present for the current record.