Functional Organ Replacement, The New Technology of Tissue Engineering

Autor: C A, Vacanti, J P, Vacanti
Rok vydání: 2017
Zdroj: Surgical technology international.
ISSN: 1090-3941
Popis: 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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