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Until the 60s heart, liver and pancreas transplants were considered impossible and if you had a transplant there was a high rate of death due to unsuccessful surgery and or organ rejection. The 60s were a wonderful time for medicine and surgery procedures due the constant experiments between twins, other animals and many tests done by different doctors. The 60s had medical Breakthroughs due to the experiments of drugs and medication like azathioprine and many trial and errors. In addition to experiments the doctors were doing more research on the transplants that occurred and what caused them to fail. Thanks to the Doctors of the 60s people can now have safe transplants. Transplants performed in the 60s were vastly improving and new cases were being brought to the operating table constantly. Identical twins were …show more content…
Doctor and surgeon Roy Calne, the first to discover and use Azathioprine, was born in Richmond, Surrey in the U.K., and was educated at Lancing college with medical training at Guy’s Hospital in London (csap). After being very successful and questioning the limits he took on a fellowship to continue his education at Harvard Medical School, there he developed anti-rejection medication such as Azathioprine, Cyclosporine, Rapamycin and Campath used in transplants (csap). Many medicine that was used back then and today was influenced by Dr. Calne's work. A few years later, in 1965, as the Professor of Surgery back in Cambridge, London, started the Cambridge Kidney transplant programme (csap). He performed the first European liver transplant only three years later (csap). Calne's contribution to the medical field was super important and saved millions of lives, his hard work and dedication not only saved lives but also inspired other young doctors, surgeons and nurses to contribute to this amazing
Until the 60s heart, liver and pancreas transplants were considered impossible and if you had a transplant there was a high rate of death due to unsuccessful surgery and or organ rejection. The 60s were a wonderful time for medicine and surgery procedures due the constant experiments between twins, other animals and many tests done by different doctors. The 60s had medical Breakthroughs due to the experiments of drugs and medication like azathioprine and many trial and errors. In addition to experiments the doctors were doing more research on the transplants that occurred and what caused them to fail. Thanks to the Doctors of the 60s people can now have safe transplants. Transplants performed in the 60s were vastly improving and new cases were being brought to the operating table constantly. Identical twins were …show more content…
Doctor and surgeon Roy Calne, the first to discover and use Azathioprine, was born in Richmond, Surrey in the U.K., and was educated at Lancing college with medical training at Guy’s Hospital in London (csap). After being very successful and questioning the limits he took on a fellowship to continue his education at Harvard Medical School, there he developed anti-rejection medication such as Azathioprine, Cyclosporine, Rapamycin and Campath used in transplants (csap). Many medicine that was used back then and today was influenced by Dr. Calne's work. A few years later, in 1965, as the Professor of Surgery back in Cambridge, London, started the Cambridge Kidney transplant programme (csap). He performed the first European liver transplant only three years later (csap). Calne's contribution to the medical field was super important and saved millions of lives, his hard work and dedication not only saved lives but also inspired other young doctors, surgeons and nurses to contribute to this amazing