• B Acad Nat Med Paris · Dec 2013

    Biography Historical Article

    [The 50th anniversary of the first liver transplantation: from myth to reality. Tributes to Thomas Starzl, 2012 Lasker Prize].

    • Bernard Launois.
    • L'Académie nationale de medicine.
    • B Acad Nat Med Paris. 2013 Dec 1; 197 (9): 1787-91.

    AbstractChemical immunosuppression and the reversal of rejection permit to develop kidney transplantation and were incitative to start liver transplantation in 1963. However, the difficulties were many: wrong operative indications, inadequate immunosuppression, difficulty of etiologic diagnosis of jaundice, poor preservation of the graft. Cyclosporine was the key-step of the success.

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