Organ Donor Awareness Week: You mean Hawkeye Pierce transplanted CHIMP KIDNEYS?

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Tuesday, September 5, 2006

You 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.

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This 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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