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The first physician to perform a successful human bone-marrow transplant on a disease other than cancer was Robert A. Good at the University of Minnesota in 1968. [76] In 1975, John Kersey, also of the University of Minnesota, performed the first successful bone-marrow transplant to cure lymphoma.
The patient who received the transplant was a 5-month-old boy with a profound immune deficiency that had earlier led to the deaths of eleven male members of his extended family. The boy received bone marrow transplanted from his 8-year-old sister. The transplant was successful and the boy grew up to become a healthy adult. [8]
George Lopez had a kidney transplant.. This list of notable organ transplant donors and recipients includes people who were the first to undergo certain organ transplant procedures or were people who made significant contributions to their chosen field and who have either donated or received an organ transplant at some point in their lives, as confirmed by public information.
He also participated with René Kuss and Marcel Legrain in 1960 and 61 to the first successful kidney grafts between non related donors and hosts. By 1963 he "shook the medical world" when he announced he had cured a patient of leukemia by means of a bone marrow transplant.
In 1971 the first British Bone Marrow Transplant using bone marrow from a matching sibling. [3] In the following year a transplant was successful using the bone marrow from father to son. [4] In April 1973 Hobbs and his team were able to achieve the world's first bone marrow transplant using a matched but unrelated volunteer donor.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood. [16] [17] [13] It may be autologous (the patient's own stem cells are used), allogeneic (the stem cells come from a donor) or syngeneic (from an identical twin).
A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York had performed the world’s first successful whole-eye transplant in a living person: her husband, Aaron James. ... the donor’s bone marrow by ...
[8] [9] France becomes the first European country to adopt brain death as a legal definition (or indicator) of death. Doctors perform the first successful bone marrow transplant, to treat severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). DiGeorge syndrome is first described by pediatric endocrinologist Angelo DiGeorge. [10] [11]