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Richard C. Lillehei (10 December 1927 - 1 April 1981) was an American transplant surgeon who performed the world's first successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant in 1966 (sometimes quoted as 1967) and the first known human intestinal transplantation.
This pancreas transplant known as PTA has as of recently been showing up with good results. This is the least performed method of pancreas transplantation and requires that only the pancreas of a donor is given to the recipient. Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant (SPK), when the pancreas and kidney are transplanted simultaneously from the ...
Patrick Soon-Shiong (born July 29, 1952) is a South African and American businessman, investor, medical researcher, and transplant surgeon. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane , which is used for lung , breast , and pancreatic cancer .
Martin Adel Makary (/ m ə ˈ k æ r i /) is a British-American surgeon, professor, author, and medical commentator.He practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is the chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
He has written over 160 peer-reviewed articles, and has been on the editorial board of Journal of Surgical Research, The Chimera, and Transplantation Science. [ 3 ] Ex-husband to vascular surgeon Dr. Rhoda Dafoe and Sahara Dafoe, he is a father of five, [ 1 ] and is the brother of actor Willem Dafoe . [ 1 ]
A pancreas transplant involves implanting a healthy pancreas (one that can produce insulin) into a person who has diabetes. Because the pancreas performs functions necessary in the digestion process, the recipient's native pancreas is left in place, and the donated pancreas attached in a different location.
Nadey S. Hakim was born in Britain, [1] in 1958 [2] into a Lebanese family. [1] [3] As a teenager, when in Lebanon, he witnessed the war.He later recalled that while the city was under fire from bombs and rockets, "the thing I used to do was put my headphones on and listen to music because I played the clarinet.
Keith Reemtsma (5 December 1925 – 23 June 2000) was an American transplant surgeon, best known for the cross-species kidney transplantation operation from chimpanzee to human in 1964. With only the early immunosuppressants and no long-term dialysis , the female recipient survived nine months, long enough to return to work.