Transplantation
Modern medicine continues to offer many miracles that lengthen the life spans of humans, as well as greatly increase the quality of life that they enjoy. If one were to draw up a �...
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Transplantation Genetics
There are several different types of transplantation. An autograft is a graft from one part of the body to another site on the same individual. An isograft is one between indi...
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Organ Transplantation
Organ transplantation is surgery in which a diseased or damaged organ is removed from a patient and replaced with a healthy organ from an organ donor. All major organs, including...
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Transplant, Surgical
Stories of transplanted tissue and body parts go far back in myth and legend. Chinese folklore tells of organ transplants; in the sixth century A.D., the Western patron saints of ...
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Organ Transplants
From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, organ transplantation has advanced radically to become one of the greatest technological achievements in medicine. As of the earl...
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The Development of Organ Transplantation
Overview
By the mid-twentieth century surgeons began successfully transplanting human organs in order to save the lives of patients whose organs were failing f...
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The human heart, long considered the body's emotional center, is still associated with feelings of love, the soul, and the spirit. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed it to be the seat of sensati...
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"Despite continuing advances in medicine and technology, the demand for organs drastically outstrips the number of organ donors," states a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) fact sheet. UNOS is a...
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Geneticist George David Snell's pioneering research on the immune system in the 1930s and 1940s enabled medical science to develop the process of organ transplantation. Through skin grafts performed o...
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Geneticist George David Snell's pioneering research on the immune system in the 1930s and 1940s enabled medical science to develop the process of organ transplantation. Through skin grafts performed o...
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Though Hollywood is hardly reality, the movies produced there do at times luck out in containing problems that touch base with true troubles of today's society. In John Q, a young black boy, Michae...
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"At present, approximately 2,000 Australians are waiting for a kidney transplant, though only about 500 transplants are performed each year" (Dr Duncan Chappell, Trends and Issues, No. 30). Organ and...
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Transplantation
Transplantation Genetics
Organ Transplantation
Transplant, Surgical
Organ Transplants
The Development of Organ Transplantation
Heart Transplantation
Organ Transplants
George David Snell
