In the 1960s, Belgian transplant surgeon Guy-Alexandre risked professional rebuke by removing kidneys from brain-dead patients whose hearts were still beating, greatly improving organ survival rates while also reducing the …
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Liver Transplantation
Roy Calne, the surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant, dies at the age of 93
by JILL LAWLESSby JILL LAWLESSLONDON (AP) — Roy Calne, the organ transplant pioneer who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died at the age of 93. Karun’s family announced that he …
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