Science Research Project - Organ Transplants

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B3 Transplants

Question 1

Since 1950, there had been many attempts to successfully transplant organs and tissues, only a few of these transplants are successful, here is the list of the successful transplants since 1950:

1954: First successful kidney transplant

1966: First successful pancreas transplant

1967: First successful liver transplant

1967: First successful heart transplant

1981: First successful heart/lung transplant

1983: First successful lung lobe transplant

1984: First successful double organ transplant

1986: First successful double-lung transplant

1995: First successful laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy

1997: First successful allogeneic vascularized transplantation of a fresh and perfused human knee joint

1998: First successful live-donor partial pancreas transplant

1998: First successful hand transplant

1999: First successful Tissue Engineered Bladder

2005: First successful partial face transplant

2006: First jaw transplant to combine donor jaw with bone marrow from the patient.

2008: First successful complete full double arm transplant

2008: First baby born from transplanted ovary.

2008: First transplant of a human windpipe using a patient's own stem cells.