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A History of Kidney Transplantation

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Contemporary Kidney Transplantation

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Abstract

Kidney transplantation has a long rich history dating back to Indian plastic surgeon’s refashioning of deformed noses until now when hundreds of thousands of grafts have been successfully transplanted. The advances were incremental with periods in which the gains were forgotten requiring duplication and delay. Skin grafts have provided invaluable information on the immunology of transplantation and remain a standard research method. Unfortunately, the erroneous claims of successful clinical skin grafting throughout history have only recently been corrected. It is difficult to assign primacy to any one pioneer for landmark advances since in most cases the “first” of any advance followed a substantial background of previous studies and in some cases the successful transplant was not a surprise to anyone. The credit should go to the many who worked tirelessly without reward to advance renal transplantation and all other forms of transplantation for the good of their patients. We live in an era when what was myth is now reality.

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    Jerry McCauley

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    Jerry McCauley

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McCauley, J. (2018). A History of Kidney Transplantation. In: Ramirez, C., McCauley, J. (eds) Contemporary Kidney Transplantation. Organ and Tissue Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19617-6_1

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