Tuesday, September 5, 2006You mean Hawkeye Pierce transplanted CHIMP KIDNEYS?Keith Reemtsma was a transplant surgeon who died in 2000, at age 74. Perhaps his greatest claim to fame is his experimentation with xenografting. In 1963 and 1964, he transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into thirteen patients in kidney failure. Twelve of those patients went back into kidney failure... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 1:32 PM Comments (0) (link) Bushman's heartThe title begs the question: Just who is Bushman, and what does Bushman have to do with organ transplantation (the subject of all the entries in this blog)? The answer is simple. Bushman was a lowland gorilla who lived in captivity, at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, until his death in 1951. (For... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 7:06 AM Comments (0) (link) |
About this BlogThis was originally intended to be written during Organ Donor Awareness Week only, but I felt like writing about transplant-related issues at other times of the year.
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