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Remarkably, in 1838 the first corneal xenotransplantation (from a pig) was performed in a patient
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The first verifiably documented skin transplant occurred in 1869
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blood types discovered and the idea of organ transplant was made
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dates of organ transplant improvements
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First organ transplanted (kidney) from identical twins
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in 1956, the first successful bone marrow transplant took place.
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Liver, heart and pancreas transplants were successfully performed by the late 1960s
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in June 11, 1963, James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant
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The first formally published case was performed by Lillehei17 in Minneapolis in 1967.
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First living donor kidney removed by laparoscopic surgery
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the heart in a box concept has expanded the time that a heart can be outside of a body from 4 hours to 14 hours.
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The first DCD heart transplant was performed in 2014, using the heart in the box concept.
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in 2018, The first OCS Lung transplant was made
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an advanced system in which transportation time can be increased by making the donor organs into thinking that they are still inside the body