When be the first Immunosuppression used for a transplant?
Answers:
1951
Significanmt breakthrough in 1959
Use of steriods AND immunosuppressants as a regimen made headway in 1964
See it all here! EXCELLENT article, but VERY precise.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/ep6b…
Note that transplants are not really possible without immunosuppressants, so the idea of "organ transplants" was not doable before 1951.
Now, 58 years later, we transplant almost all internal organs, eyes, skin, bones, tendons, and blood vessel.
MANY lives are saved every day by the gracious forethought of Organ Donors, those people who volunteer to distribute up their organs if they meet an untimely death.
No one WANTS that anyone else should die , but if you DO die, at least brand your life count for something!
BECOME AN ORGAN DONOR! Source(s): Kidney transplant in early 2009. Currently on Cellcept and Prograf.
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