RT Book, Section
A1 Feldman, Dorianne R.
A1 Van, Stephanie
A1 Edmiston, Travis
A1 Mayer, R. Samuel
A2 Mitra, Raj
SR Print(0)
ID 1159836115
T1 Rehabilitation of the Organ Transplant Patient
T2 Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793339
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159836115
RD 2024/04/18
AB ORGAN  TRANSPLANTATION  IS  ONE  OF  THE  MOST  complex  surgical  procedures  in  modern  medicine.  In  1954,  Dr.  Joseph  Murray  and  Dr.  David  Hume  of  Brigham  Hospital  in  Boston  first  successfully  transplanted  a  human  kidney  from  a  living  donor  to  his  identical  twin  recipient.  In  1967,  Dr.  Christiaan  Barnard  in  Cape  Town,  South  Africa,  was  the  first  to  perform  a  human  heart  transplant.  Notably,  in  the  1970s,  Dr.  Jean-Francois  Borel  discovered  cyclosporine,  a  derivative  of  soil  fungus  that  remains  a  key  component  in  most  transplant  patients’  immunosuppressive  therapy  regimens  today.  These  initial  efforts  did  not  have  encouraging  survival  rates  and  over  the  next  few  decades,  advances  in  immunosuppressant  therapies  and  tissue  typing  helped  to  improve  transplant  procedure  outcomes  and  prolong  survival.  Given  that  transplant  patients  are  surviving  longer,  the  ultimate  goal  of  organ  transplantation,  recovery,  and  rehabilitation  is  to  return  these  patients  to  the  highest  level  of  function  and  livelihood  as  possible.