Functional Organ Replacement, the new Technology of Tissue Engineering

Vacanti, C.A.; Vacanti, J.P.

Surgical Technology International I: 43-49

1991


ISSN/ISBN: 1090-3941
PMID: 28581583
Document Number: 380378
Functional failure of one vital organ results in death. The surgical implantation of tissue with the capacity to replace lost organ function, from one individual into another, is termed transplantation. In Boston, in 1954, Joseph E Murray performed the first successful human organ transplant, that of a kidney from an identical twin into his brother.

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