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Organ Transplantation
Surgical replacement of organs and transplant immunology.
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- How did Baruj Benacerraf's work on MHC genes explain why organ transplants fail?
- How did Burnet and Medawar's discovery eventually lead to preventing rejection in transplanted organs?
- How did Verdi's La Traviata compare to Mozart and to monotonous tones in prolonging survival?
- How did the 1969 artificial heart implant lead to modern ventricular assist devices?
- How did the Jarvik-7 implant influence later generations of ventricular assist devices?
- How did this operation change what reconstructive surgery could offer patients with severe facial injuries?
- How did transplantation move from a procedure only possible between twins to a routine intervention performed a quarter million times a year?
- How does the AbioCor artificial heart deliver power to the body without any tubes breaking the skin?
- How long did Louis Washkansky survive after the transplant, and what ultimately caused his death?
- How long did Robert Tools survive after receiving the first self-contained artificial heart?
- How was matching theory extended from school placement systems to kidney exchange networks?
- How was the artificial heart implanted in Haskell Karp meant to function as a bridge device?
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- How were transplant surgeons matching donors to recipients before this research established the MHC and HLA systems?
- What assassination motivated Alexis Carrel to pursue the problem of vascular surgery?
- What complications did Barney Clark experience while living with the artificial heart, and how long did he survive?
- What controversy surrounded Denton Cooley's 1969 artificial heart implantation?
- What did researchers find when they played opera to transplanted mouse hearts compared to silence?
- What does the outcome of this transplant suggest about the future direction of xenotransplant research?
- What experimental method did McCulloch and Till use to study the effects of radiation on bone marrow?
- What facial tissue was transplanted onto Isabelle Dinoire, and how did she lose it?
- What fourteen genetic modifications were made to the donor pig before the March 2024 transplant into Richard Slayman?
- What groundwork had Norman Shumway's dog studies laid before Christiaan Barnard performed the first human transplant?
- What immune barriers make transplanting a pig organ into a human so difficult, and how do they cause hyperacute rejection?
- What immunosuppression protocols did E. Donnall Thomas develop to make bone marrow transplants work between unrelated people?
- What open questions had surgeons debated before attempting the first face transplant?
- What was Isabelle Dinoire's long-term outcome after the surgery?
- What was the Jarvik-7, and what materials was it made from?
- Why are pig kidneys an anatomically promising option for addressing the shortage of transplantable human kidneys?
- Why did Joseph Murray's 1954 kidney transplant between identical twins succeed where transplants between unrelated people failed?
- Why did earlier artificial hearts carry a much higher risk of infection than the AbioCor?
- Why did organs transplanted using Carrel's techniques eventually fail even though the surgery itself worked?
- Why did the transplant capture public imagination even though the immunology to prevent rejection wasn't ready yet?
- Why had organ transplants been failing for decades even when surgeons could perform the operation flawlessly?
- Why was Barney Clark's implant considered a permanent replacement rather than a bridge to a donor heart?
- Why was the legal status of brain death an unresolved question at the time of the operation?
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- First human heart transplant
- First partial face transplant performed
- First permanent artificial heart implanted in a human
- First pig kidney transplanted into a living human recipient
- First self-contained artificial heart implanted
- First total artificial heart implanted in a human
- Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Lasker Award (Basic Medical Research)
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine