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Centenary of first successful human transplant
BMJ 2005; 331 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7521.891 (Published 13 October 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:891
- Martin Terplan (eterplan@icfconsulting.com), clinical professor of medicine
- University of California, San Francisco, USA
This year, 7 December will mark the 100th anniversary of the first successful human transplantation. On that day Eduard Zirm (1863-1944), a Viennese born and trained ophthalmologist, performed bilateral corneal transplants in what was then Olmuetz, Austria-Hungary (today's Olomuoc in the Czech Republic). The patient was a 43 year old labourer who had been blinded three months earlier when some lye he was slacking squirted into his eyes. By December, his corneas were completely opaque. The donor cornea …
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