The development of methods to safely preserve organs retrieved from victims of life-ending
accidents greatly improved the versatility of human organ transplantation. In fact, the …

Organ transplantation is a victim of its own success. In view of the excellent results achieved
to date, the demand for organs is escalating whereas the supply has reached a plateau …

Organ transplantation has progressed tremendously with improvements in surgical methods,
organ preservation, and pharmaco-immunologic therapies and has become a critical …

The success of organ transplantation is critically dependent on the quality of the donor
organ. Donor organ quality, in turn, is determined by a variety of factors including donor age …

With the successful testing of the immunosuppressive effects of cyclosporine in transplant
patients in 1978, the field of organ transplants began an exponential growth. With that, the …

Organ transplantation has developed over the past 50 years to reach the sophisticated and
integrated clinical service of today through several advances in science. One of the most …

Damage or loss of a tissue or organ is common, costly, and tragic. Advances in mechanical
artificial organs and organ transplantation have improved the treatment of organ failure, and …

Over the course of the last century, organ transplantation has overcome major technical
limitations to become the success it is today. The breakthroughs include developing …

A consensus meeting to develop guidelines that would improve the recovery and
transplantation of organs from the cadaver donor was held on 28–29 March 2001, in Crystal …

Solid organ transplantation is one of the most remarkable and dramatic therapeutic
advances in medicine during the past 60 years. This field has progressed initially from what …