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...resourceful doctors at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital knew how tough a problem it is to transplant a human kidney under the most favorable circumstances. They had already done transplants from two men to their identical twins-and each operation was apparently successful. But what would happen to a transplanted kidney if the recipient were a woman and she later became pregnant...
...crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become unmanageable, and the Brigham doctors concluded that only a transplant could save her life. Sister Wanda was willing, and graft tests showed that the twins were indeed identical...
...dying of longstanding kidney disease when he went into Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in January of 1962. Doctors used heroic measures, but it looked like a losing battle. Then another Brigham patient died after a heart operation. The hospital's famous team of kidney-transplant pioneers (TIME, May 3) rushed into action...
...temperature cooled to 68° F., which gave his organs a better chance of surviving after circulation was stopped. Thanks to a foresighted arrangement with the heart patient's family, surgeons were able to remove the left kidney from the cadaver within 40 minutes after death. Meanwhile, the transplant team under Physician John P. Merrill and Surgeon Joseph E. Murray was getting the accountant ready to receive the graft. Within another hour they had implanted it in the accountant's right flank, and a total of 125 minutes after the donor's death they switched...
Later, surgeons removed the accountant's own diseased kidneys. He still has to take four medicines daily and he has regular blood-cell transfusions. But 16 months after the transplant he is working full time. The Brigham doctors draw no conclusions. They simply note that this is the longest survival for a kidney transplanted from a dead donor to an unrelated patient...