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MEDICAL HISTORY Previous Volume 351:2678-2680 December 23, 2004 Number 26 Next

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Fifty years ago, on December 23, 1954, a kidney was transplanted from one healthy identical twin to his twin who was dying of renal disease. The surgery was performed at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and John Merrill, Joseph Murray, and Hartwell Harrison^1,2 led the clinical team. The operation was successful, renal function was restored in the recipient (although he would later have both his own kidneys removed in order to control hypertension), and the donor suffered no ill effects. This was the first successful transplantation, performed against a background of failure. For this reason, it created enormous . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London.

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