The first human kidney transplantation

Authors

  • Jesus M. Culebras De la Real Academia de Medicina de Valladolid y del IBIOMED, Universidad de León Académico Asociado al Instituto de España AcProfesor Titular de Cirugía. Director, Journal of Negative & No Positive Results. Director Emérito de NUTRICION HOSPITALARIA
  • Angeles Franco-Lopez Jefa de Servicio de Radiología de los hospitales de Torrevieja y Vinalopó, Alicante

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19230/jonnpr.2560

Keywords:

Kidney Transplantation, Joseph Murray, Francis Moore

Abstract

The first successful kidney transplantation between identical twins, one of the seminal events of medical history,was performed at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Today Brigham and Women’s Hospital)  in December 1954. A multidisciplinary team composed by surgeons, internists, nephrologists and pathologists under the direction of Francis Moore developed the surgical technique and the immunosuppressant treatment during the six previous years. The surgeon who performed the first transplantation was Joseph Murray. For this transplantation and for all his studies about immune suppression before and after 1954 Murray was awarded with the Nobel prize in 1990, shared with Edward Donnall Thomas from Seattle. A description of the painting of Joel Babb is also made. This oil on canvas,  together with the first Public Demonstration of Anesthesia with Ether made at the Massachusetts General  Hospital in 1846, both exhibited in the hall of the Countway library, are paradigm of the medical progress  and leadership of American medicine in the last 150 years.

 

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Published

2018-08-17

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 9: (September 2018) JONNPR 2018;3(9):674-749

Section

Historical Corner

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