The Messy Path to the First Successful Organ Transplants

Today, the organ transplantation is one of the well-known medical treatment, but the road to the first successful organ transplant was full of challenges, discoveries, and a whole lot of work.

Hosted by: Stefan Chin

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[gavman]

"This episode is brought to you by Skillshare, where you can learn organ transplants yourself. Everything ranging from simple kidney transplants to a full on brain transplant. Skillshare has tutorials for everything!"

[stormbob]

As somebody who's currently in need of a kidney transplant, I thank my lucky stars that technology has come this far and allowed us to transplant organs.

[celtgunn]

My father-in-law received a Liver transplant, 10+ years ago now. He's doing pretty darn good especially when you consider he had cancer in the bile ducts of his liver and was just so jaundiced when I first met him!

I am forever grateful to the young man who donated his liver & his family. He had been in a horrific accident and saved 5 people's lives that day. I am a donor because of this incident in my life.

[kbrod]

Kidney transplant recipient since March 13, 2018. I was out of the hospital in 6 days and have had no complications, only minor changes in drug quantities.

[mktemple]

SOO grateful they got it right in time for me to need my own transplant! Over 7 years and STILL going strong!

[fsmoura]

9:18 Now my plants will remain alive, whether they like it or not! *_*laughs maniacally*_* *_*thunder echoes in the background*_* *_*organ music plays*_*

[jessical]

“The Force and Power of Individuality” is what my parents call me.

[gunschulke]

I'm usually a stickler for ad reads (though I understand why they're necessary) but that was an extremely smooth segue that got the information across at the end of the video without making me feel like I'm being preached to. Good work, it didn't take away from my enjoyment and was so well done it urged me to leave a comment.

[Master_Therion]

On my driver's licence I opted to be an organ donor.
I feel it's important to lend a hand.

[disappointmentjuice]

I've always been incredibly curious about the history of transplants. This video was something I've been looking forward to for years. Thank you, and keep up the good work! :)

[juliogalvan]

0:52 Gaspare Tagliacozzi
2:16 Joseph Lister
3:25
4:12 Kocher
4:37 Alexis Carrel
6:22 Peter Medawar
8:12 Joseph Murray

[shylocreek]

Is "swordfighting accidents" codeword for losing your nose to syphilis?? Because a LOT of people lost their noses to syphilis

[ArcaneOwlchemist]

When I saw that Skilshare was sponsoring this video, I was hoping that there was a Skillshare video on DIY organ transplants...

[MrBlackstargames]

Let's just all be happy that we where not the first ones to try surgeries out

[RangerRuby]

Wow. That was a REALLY messy path to successful organ transplants! I know how hard this is to do ( I most certainly could not ) but I did not know it took that long to perform! Then again, we did not believe in germs until Louis Pasture proved germ theory! Man, the history of science and discovery is so interesting!

[Megan-xmnv]

I didn't realize how fascinating this would be, but I'm thoroughly fascinated by this video.

[mikefly]

I was hoping to see stuff about blood type in this video

[stewardappiagyei]

You forgot when they finally did surgery on a berry of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.

[malic_zarith]

@scishow I have a request. If you haven't covered it already, can you cover the idea of putting a human brain into a robotic body?

[shylocreek]

"Swordfighting accidents" is a fun way to say syphilis