A brief history of liver transplantation and transplant anesthesia

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Among the key practitioners in the history of transplantation is Scottish surgeon John Hunter, who performed experiments transplanting small pieces of tissue to external body sites in animals. An important step towards solid organ transplantation was taken in 1906 when Mathieu Jaboulay attempted the first xenotransplantations, transplanting kidneys from pigs and goats into humans. Later, French surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel began work on developing preservation solutions and blood vessel suturing techniques for graft anastomoses. Advances in organ transplantation Kidney transplantation (KT) was successful long before liver transplantation (LT). The excellent results of this transplant . . .

 



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