Famous Kidney Donors
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Kidney transplant involves a nephrectomy or the surgical removal of a kidney and its transference from a brain dead or heart failure donor or from a willing, living donor followed by its grafting to the recipient suffering from ESRD, the End Stage Renal Disease. In view of the possibility of rejection by the body of the recipient, the compatibility of the donor is of critical importance, and it is preferred that the donor is a biological relative of the recipient. Sometimes the kidney of a willing and genetically related donor may not be compatible with the kidney of the recipient, and in that case the donor’s kidney is utilized for a matching patient in exchange for a matching kidney for the intended recipient, and this type of donation is called the daisy chain. In 2004, the FDA had approved a drug which reduces the need for the blood type of the living donor to be the same as that of the recipient. A kidney transplant usually involves an incision of about 4-7 inches, and the surgical operation under general anesthesia takes about three hours to complete. A team of surgeons performed the first robotic transplant through a two-inch incision at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in January, 2009.
1. Ronald Lee Herrick
Ronald Lee Herrick was the world’s first kidney donor who donated his kidney to his identical twin brother Richard Herrick. The kidney transplant operation was performed on December 23, 1954 by Dr. Joseph Murray at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. The operation was successful, and Richard lived for eight years after the kidney transplant. It was a great achievement in the history of medical science, and Dr. Murray won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his transplant work. Murray said about it, “This operation rejuvenated the whole field of transplantation…There were other people studying transplants in four or five different countries, but the fact that it worked so well with the identical twins was a tremendous stimulus.†Ronald Lee Herrick died at the age of 79 years in the Augusta Rehabilitation Center in Maine, New England.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Kidney transplant involves a nephrectomy or the surgical removal of a kidney and its transference from a brain dead or heart failure donor or from a willing, living donor followed by its grafting to the recipient suffering from ESRD, the End Stage Renal Disease. In view of the possibility of rejection by the body of the recipient, the compatibility of the donor is of critical importance, and it is preferred that the donor is a biological relative of the recipient. Sometimes the kidney of a willing and genetically related donor may not be compatible with the kidney of the recipient, and in that case the donor’s kidney is utilized for a matching patient in exchange for a matching kidney for the intended recipient, and this type of donation is called the daisy chain. In 2004, the FDA had approved a drug which reduces the need for the blood type of the living donor to be the same as that of the recipient. A kidney transplant usually involves an incision of about 4-7 inches, and the surgical operation under general anesthesia takes about three hours to complete. A team of surgeons performed the first robotic transplant through a two-inch incision at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in January, 2009.
1. Ronald Lee Herrick
Ronald Lee Herrick was the world’s first kidney donor who donated his kidney to his identical twin brother Richard Herrick. The kidney transplant operation was performed on December 23, 1954 by Dr. Joseph Murray at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. The operation was successful, and Richard lived for eight years after the kidney transplant. It was a great achievement in the history of medical science, and Dr. Murray won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his transplant work. Murray said about it, “This operation rejuvenated the whole field of transplantation…There were other people studying transplants in four or five different countries, but the fact that it worked so well with the identical twins was a tremendous stimulus.†Ronald Lee Herrick died at the age of 79 years in the Augusta Rehabilitation Center in Maine, New England.
Continue reading to find out the remaining nine donors
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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