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Rev Mex Traspl 2014; 3 (1)

Joseph E. Murray. Plastic surgery, renal transplantation and Nobel Prize

Castillo-Montes MJ, Martínez-Mier G

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 26-31
PDF size: 409.20 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objective: Narrate the life and work of Joseph E. Murray. Design: Historic essay (9 references). Setting: Surgery Transplant, Organ Procurement Department, Hospital Regional de Veracruz. Results: Joseph E. Murray was born on April 1919 in Milford, Massachusetts, a town 30 miles southwest of Boston. He enrolled in the School of Medicine of the University of Harvard in 1939. After obtaining his medical degree in 1943, began his general surgery residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in Boston, but it was interrupted by the Second World War and the need for personal doctor within the US Military. In December 1954, the group of Dr. Murray had a patient (Richard Herrick) having an identical twin, which was severe renal disease. The surgery took place on December 23, 1954. Dr. Harrison shifted left donor kidney while Dr. Murray performed receiver dissection. On October 8, 1990 Joseph E. Murray and E. Thomas Donall receive the Nobel Prize «for their discoveries regarding cell and organ transplantation in the treatment of human disease». At 93 years old, Dr. Murray died on November 26, 2012 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, after suffering a stroke.


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