Today is a very important day, the first successful kidney transplant between two living people in Boston, USA, in 1954. The transplant took place between two twin brothers Ronald Herrick and Richard Herrick. Both were born from the development of the same zygote. This was done because the donor's kidney is not accepted by another body. Herrick had undergone a kidney transplant. They lived for 8 years. Dr Joseph Murray was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990 for successfully carrying out the transplant. Earlier, on June 17, 1950, the first kidney transplant was performed, but 11 months later the patient succumbed to the infection.
The same girl, who survived 74 minutes in the UK, underwent organ transplants. This is the smallest donor. Thereafter, 1 lakh persons have approved donating organs. By the 1950s, scientists had achieved many major successes in organ transplantation. But no internal organ had been transplanted yet. Scientists were now working on transplanting an internal organ. If scientists had managed to do so, it would have been a great success.
Why kidney transplant was done:- Experts considered the kidney to be the freest for transplant as the human body has 2 kidneys. Even if a kidney is removed, a person can survive. It was only after 1900 that kidney transplant attempts were made several times, but each time the patient died for some reason or the other. This led to the breakdown of experts' hopes for the transplant. On December 23, 1954, experts achieved a major breakthrough in the transplant sector. Richard Harrick, 23, had kidney disease. Richard Harry contacted doctors at a Boston hospital. One good thing about Richard was that he also had a brother Ronald. For this reason, it was decided that Richard would be given a kidney transplant of his twin brother. Dr Joseph Murray's team performed a kidney transplant in a nearly 5-hour operation, which was successful and Richard survived for another 8 years. Dr Joseph Murray, who accomplished surgery, was later awarded the Nobel Prize.
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