Landmark perspective. Transplantation of blood vessels, organs, and limbs
1983; American Medical Association; Volume: 250; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.250.7.954
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research
ResumoI am particularly privileged to be invited to write a companion piece on the occasion of the republication of Carrel's JAMA article of 1908 (see p 944). On a sunny Sunday morning in 1935-1936, as a premed freshman sitting on the terrace of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, I turned to the rotogravure section of the Birmingham News-Age Herald and saw there a photograph and write-up of Alexis Carrel and Charles A. Lindbergh with their perfusion apparatus, by means of which they had kept a chicken's heart alive for an extended period, I think for months. This article made a memorable impression on me, and I still have it in my collection of memorabilia denoting times, places, and events. How the world turns, now almost 50 years later. The ultimate dimensions of the field of blood vessel anastomosis and organ transplantation, in
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