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• Roman Catholic
accounts report the
saints Damian and
Cosmas as replacing
the gangrenous leg of
the Roman deacon
Justinian with the leg
of a recently deceased
Ethiopian.
• The first reasonable
account is of the
Indian surgeon
Sushruta in the
second century BC,
who used
autografted skin
transplantation in
nose reconstruction
rhinoplasty.
• The first successful
human corneal
transplant, a
keratoplastic
operation, was
performed by Eduard
Zirm in Austria in
1905.
• Their skillful
anastomosisoperations,
the new suturing
techniques, laid the
groundwork for later
transplant surgery and
won Carrel the 1912.
Nobel Prize for Medicine
or Physiology
• Archibald
McIndoe carried
on the work into
World War II as
reconstructive
surgery
• He decided to use
the kidney from a
dead body. As we
succeeded to
establish, on April,
1933 the surgeon
Yu. Yu. Voronoy
made the
transplantation of the
kidney taken from a
dead body.
• the late 1940s
Peter Medawar,
working for the
National Institute
for Medica
Research,
improved the
understanding of
rejection
transplant organs.
• In 1955. Murray
reported the first
successful renal
homotransplantati
on in identical
twins and he later
received the Nobel
Prize in 1990. for
this achievement.
• Thomas Starzl was a
pioneer in transplant
surgery and has often
been referred to as "the
modern-day father of
transplantation."
• Starzl performed the
world’s first liver
transplant in 1963 and
the world’s first
successful liver transplant
in 1967
• Christiaan Neethling
Barnard was a South
African cardiac
surgeon.
• He became famous for
performing the world's
first open heart
transplant (1967.)
• On March 9th 1981.
the first successful
heart-lung transplant
took place at Stanford
University Hospital.
The head surgeon,
Bruce Reitz, credited
the patient's recovery
to cyclosporine-A.
Timeline of successful transplants
• 1905: First successful cornea transplant by Eduard Zirm
• 1954: First successful kidney transplant by Joseph Murray (Boston, U.S.A.)
• 1966: First successful pancreas transplant by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly
(Minnesota, U.S.A.)
• 1967: First successful liver transplant by Thomas Starzl (Denver, U.S.A.)
• 1967: First successful heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (Cape Town, South
Africa)
• 1981: First successful heart/lung transplant by Bruce Reitz (Stanford, U.S.A.)
• 1983: First successful lung lobe transplant by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada)
• 1986: First successful double-lung transplant (Ann Harrison) by Joel Cooper
(Toronto, Canada)
• 1987: First successful whole lung transplant by Joel Cooper (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
• 1995: First successful laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy by Lloyd Ratner and
Louis Kavoussi (Baltimore, U.S.A.)
• 1998: First successful live-donor partial pancreas transplant by David Sutherland
(Minnesota, U.S.A.)
• 1998: First successful hand transplant (France)
• 2005: First successful partial face transplant (France)
• 2006: First successful penis transplant (China)
Transplantacija
• U Europi na presađivanje čeka 50 000, a u SAD
preko 76 000 bolesnika.
• U Zapadnoj Evropi 25-35% bolesnika koji čekaju
transplantaciju organa je neće dočekati. Oko
500 ljudi umire godišnje čekajući presađivanje
jetre.
• 10-30% bolesnika u SAD umre čekajući
transplantaciju jetre. Transplantira se svaki peti
sa liste.
1. Koji se organi i tkiva najčešće
transplantiraju?
• bubreg
• gušterača
• jetra
• pluća
• srce
• tanko crijevo
• koža
• srčane valvule ili krvne žile
• rožnica
• kosti
2. Koji se organi mogu
transplantirati u Hrvatskoj?