TRANSPLANTATION !

WORLD TRANSPLANT RECORDS!


KIDNEY

1. Living Related Allograft

• longest surviving : 33 yrs, 11 months
• youngest recipient : 1day
• oldest recipient : 74 yrs
• oldest donor : 93 yrs

2.  Cadaveric Allograft

• longest surviving : 32yrs 2 months
• longest surviving (2nd treatment) :  29 yrs, months
• oldest surviving recipient : 88 yrs
• youngest surviving recipient : months
• oldest recipient : 81 yrs
• oldest donor : newborn

BONE MARROW / STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

1. begin in 1968 - living related siblings

• severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS)
• advanced leukemia

     2.  previous studies in animals showed

• low incidence of GVHD will result high graft survival rates
• if  donor and recipient is histocompatible (i.e. compatible)

     3.  BMT is a major breakthrough in the treatment of a variety of malignant & non-malignant hematological disorders:

      a routine procedure at: 

• > 275 centres worldwide
• > 5000 annually
• total : > 95000